WHEAT PLANT AND CROP MODELLING

THE ASSOCIATE PROGRAMME ON WHEAT PLANT AND CROP MODELLING AIMS TO FACILITATE LINKAGES BETWEEN CROP MODELLERS, PHYSIOLOGISTS AND BREEDERS TO IMPROVE GLOBAL WHEAT PRODUCTION. 

The programme organizes workshops to bring together experts to discuss and advance wheat models to support model-assisted wheat improvement. Through its alignment with AgMIP-Wheat, the program prepares and conducts multi-model simulation experiments. The programme will enhance systems understanding of G x E x M interactions for current and future climate scenarios. It will identify gaps in experimental data, crop physiological knowledge and crop models and explore pathways to improve global wheat production through linking crop modelling and crop physiology with crop breeding.

PROPOSAL

The proposal to establish an Expert Working Group first was submitted by Senthold Asseng (Technical University of Munich, previous University of Florida, USA), Frank Ewert (ZALF/University of Bonn, Germany) and Pierre Martre (INRAE, France), and was endorsed for an initial 2-year period by the Wheat Initiative Research Committee at their 2nd meeting on September 14, 2013.

CALL FOR EXPERTS

The call for experts will remain open during the EWG/Programme lifetime. Any expert wishing to participate in the Wheat Plant and Crop Modeling Expert Working Group/Programme should complete the application form and return it via email here.

LEADERSHIP

Chair: Senthold Asseng
Vice-Chairs: Frank Ewert, Pierre Martre

MEETINGS

  • 10 October 2020 - Virtual

  • 6 February 2020 - Montpellier, France

  • 28-29 June 2019 - Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA

  • 23 April 2018 - San Jose, Costa Rica

  • 8-11 May, 2017 - Suzhou, China

  • 27 June 2016 - Montpellier, France

  • 14 March 2016 - Berlin, Germany

  • 24 February 2015 - Gainesville, USA

  • 24-26 June 2014 - Clermont Ferrand, France

  • 31 October 2013, New York, USA