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 Friday 27th September | Saturday 28th September | Sunday 29th September | Monday 30th September |

Session X: Brainstorming Sessions for IBP Phase 2 | Session XI: RI perspectives from crop group parallel sessions   

Project-updates-2013-100 icon 2013 Project Updates (1.49 MB)

Friday 27th September (1st day)

Time Topic Presenter/Moderator
Opening Plenary

Session I (Chair: J-M Ribaut)
08:30–08:45 GCP Director Welcome remarks J-M Ribaut
08:45–09:00 GCP Executive Board Chair Welcome remarks A Bennett
09:00–09:30 Delivering drought tolerance to those who need it; from genetic resource to cultivar R Trethowan

Session II (Chair: JM Ribaut)
CRP updates
09:30–09:45 Maize B Vivek
09:45–10:00 Rice H Leung
10:00–10:15 Roots and Tubers M Gedil
10:15–10:45

Integrated Breeding Platform

 G McLaren &
M Sawkins
10:45–11:15

Coffee Break

Session III (Chair: M. Sawkins)
Project Reporting
          Wheat
11:15–11:35 Molecular breeding and selection strategies to combine and validate quantitative trait loci for improving water-use efficiency and heat tolerance of wheat in India KV Prabhu
11:35–11:55 Breeding and selection strategies to combine and validate quantitative trait loci for water-use efficiency and heat tolerance of wheat in China R Jing
11:55–12:15 Generating new wheat germplasm with enhanced drought/heat tolerance using AB genomes genetic diversity S Misra
12:15–12:35 Breeder-friendly high-throughput phenotyping tools to select for wheat adaptive traits in drought environments F Dreccer
12:35–13:00 The way forward J-M Ribaut
13:00–14:00 Lunch break
Parallel Discussion I
14:00–17:30

Crop Group (Wheat, Rice, Cassava, Legumes, Sorghum & Maize) Breakout Sessions (includes coffee break at 15:30)
  Crop Group Session Chairs/GCP Advisors:
Legumes Advisor: NN Diop
             Beans
 S Beebe
             Chickpeas
 P Gaur
             Cowpeas
 O Boukar
             Groundnuts
 P Okori
Maize
 B Vivek & J-M Ribaut
Cassava
 E Okogbenin & L Butler
Sorghum
 J-F Rami & H Paschal
Rice
 N Ahmadi & G McLaren
Wheat
 R Trethowan & M Sawkins

Topics for discussion:

  • Review of product catalogue
    • Completeness for products available now (i.e. are we missing any important ones?)
    • Accuracy of documentation (title, description, access)
    • Identification of output products to come (before and after the end of 2014)
  • Identification of what needs to be done to complete the documentation and ensure availability in a sustainable way (i.e. source and seed quantity needed for distribution, etc)
  
17:30–19:30 POSTER SESSION I Moderator:
G Summers

 

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Saturday, 28th September (2nd day)

 

Time Topic Presenter/Moderator
Plenary

Session IV (Chair: R.K. Varshney)
CRP Updates (cont’d)
08:30–08:45 Grain Legumes N Ellis
  CRP Wheat (CIMMYT & ICARDA) M van Ginkel
08:45–09:00 Dryland Cereals S Sivasankar
Session V (Chair: R.K. Varshney)
Project Reporting
Comparative Genomics
09:00–09:20 Cloning, characterisation and validation of AltSB/Al tolerance in maize C Guimaraes
09:20–09:40 Cloning, characterisation and validation of Pup1/P efficiency in maize L Kochian
09:40–10:00 Cloning, characterisation and validation of AltSB/Al tolerance in rice L Kochian
  Cassava  
10:00–10:20 Implement MARS projects for drought tolerance and A cassava breeding community of practice in Africa: for accelerated production and dissemination of farmer-preferred cassava varieties resistant to pests and diseases (Phase II) E Okogbenin
10:20–10:40 Improving and deploying markers for biotic traits in cassava C Egesi
10:40–11:10
 Coffee break
Session VI (Chair: H. Paschal)
Project Reporting

Cassava (Cont’d)
11:10–11:30 Global Cassava Partnership Program C Fauquet
  Sorghum  
11:30–11:50 Discovery and development of alleles contributing to sorghum drought tolerance A Paterson
11:50–12:10 Development and evaluation of drought-adapted sorghum germplasm for Africa and Australia A Borrell
12:10–12:30 Enhancing sorghum grain yield and quality for the Sudano-Sahelian zone of West Africa using the backcross nested association mapping (BCNAM) approach N Teme
12:30–12:50 Improve sorghum productivity in semi-arid environments of Mali through integrated MARS J-F Rami
12:50–14:00 Lunch

Parallel Discussion II
14:00–17:30

Crop Group Breakout Session (includes coffee break at 15:30) Discussion Topics:

  • Data Management strategy and crop DB
  • Classification of projects into finished (currently and by end of 2014) and unfinished activities
    • If finished determine if continuation of activity is desirable, and if so how/where
    • If unfinished, proposed home and plan for the integration of these activities beyond 2014
17:30–19:30 Poster Session II Moderator:
G Summers

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Sunday 29th September (3rd day)

 

 

Time Topic Presenter/Moderator
Plenary

Session VII (Chair: G. McLaren)
Project Reporting
Sorghum (cont’d)
08:30–08:50 Establishing a molecular breeding program based on the aluminum tolerance gene AltSB and the P efficiency QTL, Pup-1, for increasing sorghum production in Sub-Saharan Africa F Rattunde
08:50–09:10  Improving phosphorus efficiency in sorghum by the identification and validation of sorghum homologs for Pup1, a major QTL underlying phosphorus uptake in rice (SorghumPup1) J Magalhaes
  Rice  
09:10–09:30 Improving rice productivity in the lowland ecosystems of Burkina Faso, Mali and Nigeria through marker-assisted recurrent selection MN Ndjiondjop
09:30–09:50 Targeting drought-avoidance root traits to enhance rice productivity under water-limited environments A Henry
09:50–10:10 Rice multiparent advanced generation intercrosses (MAGIC) – Phase II H Leung
10:10–10:30 Breeding drought tolerance for rainfed lowland rice in the Mekong region B Jongdee
10:30–10:50 Dissemination and community of practice for newly developed drought- tolerant QTLs pyramided breeding lines A Kumar
10:50–11:20

Coffee Break
Session VIII (Chair: L. Butler)

Project Reporting
Maize
11:20–11:40 AMDROUT: Asian Maize Drought-Tolerance Project B Vivek
11:40–12:00 Marker-assisted backcrossing for improving phosphorous-use efficiency and tolerance to aluminium toxicity via Pup-1 and AltSB genes in maize S Gudu
  Chickpeas  
12:00–12:20 Improve chickpea productivity for marginal environments in sub- Saharan Africa and South Asia RK Varshney
12:20–12:40 Harnessing the potential of multiparent advanced generation intercross (MAGIC) populations for gene discovery and breeding applications in chickpeas P Gaur
  Cowpeas  
12:40–13:00

Improve cowpea productivity for marginal environments in sub-Saharan Africa

 P Roberts
13:00–19:30

Free Afternoon
19:30–22:30

Gala Dinner

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Monday, 30th September (4th day)

 

Time Topic Presenter/Moderator
Plenary (Chair: N.N. Diop)
Session IX
Project Reporting
Groundnuts 
08:30–08:50 Improve groundnut productivity for marginal environments in sub-Saharan Africa V Vadez
  Beans  
08:50–09:10 Improve common bean productivity for marginal environments in sub- Saharan Africa B Raatz
09:10–09:30 Introduction to the BeanCAP Project P McClean
  Cross-Cutting (Legumes)  
09:30–09:50 Drought phenotyping V Vadez
09:50–10:10 Genome-Wide Selection Update RK Varshney & A Rathore
10:10–10:30

IBP Future - Explanation of Brainstorming Sessions

J-M Ribaut
10:30–11:00

Coffee Break
Session X (Chair: J-M. Ribaut)
11:00–12:30

Brainstorming Sessions for IBP Phase 2 (primer)
12:30–13:30 Lunch
Plenary

Session XI (Chair: J-M. Ribaut)
13:30–17:30 Closing Summaries and Remarks
13:30–15:45 RI perspectives from crop group parallel sessions Crop PDCs (15 minutes each)
Cassava E Okogbenin
Chickpeas P Gaur
Beans (oral remarks)
 S Beebe
Groundnuts P Okori
Cowpeas O Boukar
Maize B Vivek & L Kochian
Rice N Ahmadi
Sorghum J-F Rami
Wheat M Sawkins
15:45–16:15

Coffee Break

  
16:15–17:05

GCP Team Closing remarks (10 minutes each)
 

Comparative and Applied Genomics

 RK Varshney
Integrated Crop Breeding M Sawkins
Crop Information Systems G McLaren
Capacity Building NN Diop
Product Delivery L Butler
17:05–17:30 GRM Closing Remarks J-M Ribaut
  Adjourn  

 

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