Breeding plants for tomorrow’s world – challenges and solutions
from 12.09.2022 – 14.09.2022
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Breeding plants for tomorrow’s world – challenges and solutions
Rice genetic improvement and food security
Pamela Ronald, University of California, Davis, USA
Crops and Carbon Sequestration – Challenges and Solutions
Andreas Weber, Biochemistry, University of Düsseldorf; Coordinator CEPLAS
New Crops (Ophan crops, Neo-domestication)
Quinoa – Unravelling genetic mechanisms of agronomically important traits in quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd)
Nazgol Emrani, Plant Breeding, University of Kiel
Amaranth – Elucidating the domestication history of an ancient grain to accelerate crop improvement
Markus Stetter, University of Cologne
Russian dandelion (Taraxacum koksaghyz) – development of a new rubber crop
Dirk Prüfer, University of Münster
Promoting productivity of tef through tackling key constraints
Zerihun Tadele, University of Bern
Making new crop species – new hybrid Brassica types
Annaliese Mason, University of Bonn
New approaches to access complex genomes of crops / crop relatives
Genetic architecture of recombination rate variation in barley and rye
Steven Dreissig, MLU Halle
Gene bank genomics – pan genomics for crop improvement
Martin Mascher, IPK-Gatersleben
Genomic selection – theoretical and experimental assessment of genome-based prediction in landraces
Manfred Mayer, Plant Breeding, TU Munich
Transfer of new traits into crops
Targeting sugar transporters in bacterial leaf blight disease
Wolf Frommer, Molecular Physiology, University of Düsseldorf
Targeting effector proteins in late blight disease of potato
Vivianne Vleeshouwers, Plant Breeding, Wageningen University
Targeted mutagenesis for virus resistance in Barley
Robert Hoffie, IPK-Gatersleben
New kids on the block: the regulation of potato tuber induction
Vanessa Wahl, MPIMP Golm
The INCREASE European Citizen Science Experiment with plant genetic resources of common bean
Kerstin Neumann, IPK-Gatersleben
