5TH VIRTUAL DURUM MEETING
The Expert Working Group on DURUM WHEAT GENOMICS AND BREEDING will hold their 5th virtual meeting in May!
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The title: “Challenges and Prospects of Durum Wheat of the Future”
The 5th VDM will be held on May 10th and 11th, 2023.
The Virtual Durum Meeting is a two-day webinar with 4-5 short presentations every day given in about 2 hrs followed by time for discussion. The webinar will start at 15.00h (Central European Time/Berlin Time), corresponding to morning in US and late evening in Australia.
You can find the full programme here!
Virtual Durum Meeting Hosted by the Expert Working Group on DURUM WHEAT GENOMICS AND BREEDING from the Wheat initiative
DAY 1
Wednesday, Mai 10th 2023 3pm Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna
https://wheatinitiative.webex.com/wheatinitiative/j.php?MTID=mc6f04ffd535f29f8c3544e3754da8205
May 10 (between 3 and 5 pm, Central EU Time)
Chairs: Karim Ammar & Agata Gadaleta: Welcoming talk
3.00 pm Opening talk Luigi Cattivelli, Council for Agricultural Research and Economics (CREA), Italy
3.10pm Peter Langridge, Wheat Initiative: The role of the Wheat Initiative
3.20pm Fei Lu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China & John Innes Centre, UK: Population genomics unravels the Holocene history of bread wheat and its relatives
3.40pm Liubov Govta, University of Haifa, Israel: Durum wheat immune responses activated by WTK1 (Yr15) against stripe rust
4.00pm Shuang Zhang, University of Vienna, Austria: Spatial distribution of proteomic architecture in wheat grains and different responses to grain filling stages
4.20pm Jad B Novi, University of Bologna, Italy: Multienvironment phenotypic evaluation and GWAS analysis on the global durum genomic resource wheat collection for resistance to yellow rust
4.40 pm Hafssa Kabbaj, ICARDA, Morocco: Implementation of Genomic Selection in the ICARDA durum wheat breeding program
DAY 2
Thursday Mai 11th 2023 3pm Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna
https://wheatinitiative.webex.com/wheatinitiative/j.php?MTID=m0067a7e1caf132e95f910e161c23b593
May 11 (between 3 and 5 pm, Central EU Time)
Chairs: Jemanesh Haile & Anna Maria Mastrangelo
3.00 pm Opening talk
3.10pm Roberto Tuberosa, University of Bologna, Italy: A perspective vision on the role of EWG
3.20pm Caixia Gao, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China: Genome-edited powdery mildew resistance in wheat without growth penalties
3.40pm Junli Zhang, University of California, Davis, USA: Accessing natural and induced variation in the regulatory regions of the wheat genes
4.00pm Chiara Natale, CREA Research Centre for Engineering and Agro-Food Processing, Italy: Crop rotation, soil tillage and fertilization source affect durum wheat grain and semolina pasta traits
4.20pm Matteo Bozzoli, DISTAL - University of Bologna, Italy: Fine mapping of Sbm2, a locus for soil-borne cereal mosaic virus (sbcmv) resistance in durum wheat
4.40pm Justin D. Faris, United States Department of Agriculture – USDA, USA: Genetics of resistance to tan spot in durum wheat
Organised by Early Career Researchers of the Expert Working Group on Durum Wheat Genomics and Breeding.