WHEAT PHENOTYPING TO SUPPORT WHEAT IMPROVEMENT

The Expert Working Group on Wheat Phenotyping aims to reduce the gap between genomics and phenomics for wheat improvement by supporting and strengthening research initiatives, as well as by developing new technologies focused on wheat phenotyping on an international scale.

It will promote collaborations and exchange of expertise in wheat phenotyping, enhance the integration of phenotyping into breeding and genomics programs, engage experts from non-plant disciplines in wheat phenotyping and support training and capacity building.

Proposal
The proposal to establish an Expert Working Group was submitted by Bettina Berger (University of Adelaide, Australia), Robert Furbank (CSIRO Plant Industry Canberra, Australia), Mark Tester (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia), Uli Schurr (IBG-2 Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany), Boris Parent (INRA, France), Martin Parry (Rothamsted Research, UK), Matthew Reynolds (CIMMYT, Mexico), Jesse Poland (USDA-ARS, USA), and endorsed by the Wheat Initiative Research Committee at their 2nd meeting on September 14, 2013.

Leadership
Chair: Nicola PECCHIONI

Co-Chair: Michela JANNI

Call for Experts
The call for experts will remain open during the EWG lifetime. Any expert wishing to participate in the Wheat Phenotyping to Support Wheat Improvement Expert Working Group should complete the application form and send via email to wheat(dot)initiative(at)julius-kuehn(dot)de.

International Collaborations
The EWG works closely with the EWGs Adaptation of Wheat to Abiotic Stress and the Wheat Information System on training provision and is linked to the global phenotyping community via the International Plant Phenotyping Network.

Past Events

• Phenotyping technologies, satellite meeting to the CBB7 conference

• June 28 - July 01, 2021 | Plant Biology Europe 2021 | Turin, Italy | virtual, click for link

• June 30 – July 08, 2021 | SEB2021 annual conference | Antwerp, Belgium | Plant Phenotyping session on 5-6 of July | virtual (click for link)

• July 12-16, 2021 | International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium | Brussels | info link

• August 22 - 27, 2021 | 21st general congress Eucarpia | virtual, click for link

• October 11 - 17 | Computer Vision in Plant Phenotyping and Agriculture (CVPPA) Workshop at ICCV 2021 | virtual, click for link

• September 27 - 30,  2022 | International Plant Phenotyping Symposium | Wageningen, The Netherlands

Meetings

  • October 22-25, 2019, Nanjing, China

  • July 21, 2019, Saskatoon, Canada

  • July 19-20, 2019, Saskatoon, Canada

  • 4 March 4, 2019, virtual

  • January 31, 2019, vitual

  • October 4, 2018, Adelaide, Australia

  • September 24-25, joint workshop “Data management for wheat phenotyping”, Versailles, France

  • September 17-18, 2018, joint workshop “Training course on high-throughput wheat phenotyping”, Bologna, Italy

  • June 25-29, 2018, joint workshop “International winter wheat improvement programme” - various locations in Turkey