ENHANCED GENEPOOL UTILIZATION ‒ Capturing wild relative and landrace diversity for crop improvement
Conference presentations
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| Title | Speaker |
| Opening session |
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| Guest lecture: Making use of germplasm diversity for crop improvement in a range of tropical crops | JC Glaszmann |
| Theme I – Characterization techniques to identify traits and expedite plant breeding | |
| Pre-breeders' use of exotic germplasm |
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| Keynote: Geno-pheno in plant breeding | D Zamir |
| Using Phenomics and Genomics to unlock landrace and wild relative diversity for crop improvement | B Vosman |
| Pre-domesticating wild relatives as new sources of novel genetic diversity | D Falk |
| Buglossoides: its journey to becoming Ahi Flower | L Smith |
| Unraveling quinoa domestication with wild ancestors | D Bertero |
| Breeders' use of exotic germplasm | |
| Keynote: Gene discovery and its applications in rice | M Lorieux |
| The IBERS Diploid Avena Genomics Resource (DAGR) and its application to hexaploid oat breeding | T Langdon |
| Screening wild Vigna species and cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) land races for sources of resistance to Striga gesnerioides | OA Oyatomi |
| QTL detection for root-related traits in wild barley introgression lines under drought stress conditions | Md Arifuzzaman |
| Novel characterization techniques |
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| Keynote: How the Focused Identification of Germplasm Strategy (FIGS) is used to mine plant genetic resource collections for adaptive traits | K Street |
| Detecting climate adaptations in the wild pearl millet Cenchrus americanus for future breeding use | C Berthouly-Salazar |
| Comparative population genomics in crops and their wild relatives: assessing the impact of domestication on crop | J-L Pham |
| Next-generation SNP genotyping platforms for characterizing potato germplasm | D De Koeyer |
| Theme II – Conservation strategies (Part I) |
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| International CWR conservation |
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| Keynote: Joining up the dots: a systematic perspective on crop wild relative conservation and use | N Maxted |
| A regional conservation strategy for European crop wild relative diversity | S Kell |
| The distributions and ex situ conservation of crop wild relatives: a worldwide approach | N Castañeda-Alvarez |
| The GRIN-Taxonomy crop wild relative inventory | J Wiersema |
| International landrace conservation |
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| Keynote: Landrace conservation, farmers and crop evolution | H Perales Rivera |
| Towards a European on-farm conservation strategy for landraces | V Negri |
| The use of spontaneous sexually-produced new landraces of a vegetatively propagated crop of the Andes (Oxalis tuberosa Mol.) to enhance in situ conservation | M Bonnave |
| The Chirapaq Ñan Initiative: establishment of a long-term on-farm monitoring network for potato landrace diversity | S de Haan |
| Theme II – Conservation strategies (Part II) | |
| National CWR conservation |
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| Keynote: National Strategies for the Conservation of CWR | J Iriondo |
| Developing methodologies for the genetic conservation of UK crop wild relatives | H Fielder |
| Optimized site selection for the in situ conservation of forage and fodder CWRs: a combination of community and genetic level perspectives | ML Rubio Teso |
| Crop wild relatives, a conservation priority for Jordan | J Magos Brehm |
| Development of the national crop wild relative in situ conservation strategy for Lithuania | J Labokas |
| Priorities and strategies for conservation of crop wild relatives at Indian National Genebank | V Gupta |
| National LR conservation |
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| Keynote: Landraces, Livelihood, and Community Biodiversity Management | A Subedi |
| Landrace inventories and conservation strategy making in Finland | M Heinonen |
| Assessment of Italian LR density and species richness: useful criteria for developing in situ conservation strategies | R Torricelli |
| Using landraces in agriculture, food and cooking: the experience around a big city in Southern Europe | A Lázaro |
| Hungarian strategies for the conservation of CWR and LR diversity | B Baktay |
| Crop wild relatives and landraces of Jordan: their integration to food security programs | S Saifan |
| Regeneration and conservation of chickpea genetic resources of Georgia | A Korakhashvili |
| Theme III – Facilitating CWR and LR use |
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| Community based conservation/use |
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| Keynote: Rapidly increasing on-farm biodiversity through Evolutionary Plant Breeding: the Iranian experience | M Rahmanian |
| Conservation and utilization of genetic resources and heritage as a concept of rural sustainable economic development | V Ognjanov |
| Payments for Agrobiodiversity Conservation Services: Towards an instrument for environmentally effective, cost-efficient and socially equitable agrobiodiversity conservation | A Drucker |
| Improving breeders' access to PGRFA |
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| Keynote: Improving breeders’ access to PGRFA | L Boon |
| Ways to unlock barley´s secondary gene pool for breeding with Next-Generation-Sequencing | N Wendler |
| Wild Lactuca saligna richness for lettuce breeding | E Kristkova |
| A new selection tool to exploit genetic resources in durum wheat | D Pignone |
| The use of crop wild relatives in public international breeding centers and implications for conservation | C Smith |
| PGRFA conservation/use policy |
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| Keynote: Are we almost there yet? A backseat view of the 50 year voyage to develop international systems for PGRFA conservation and use | M Halewood |
| On the conservation and sustainable use of plant genetic resources in Europe: a stakeholder analysis | A Palmé |
| Towards an improved European Plant Germplasm System | L Frese |
| Impact of the genetic resources policy landscape on food security | E Thörn |
| The strategic action plan to strengthen the conservation and use of Mesoamerican plant genetic resources in adapting agriculture to climate change (SAPM) | M Ramirez |
| Theme IV – Informatics development |
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| Characterization informatics |
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| Keynote: Plant Breeding Data Management, Analysis, and Integration | R Finkers |
| New predictive characterization methods for accessing and using CWR diversity | I Thormann |
| Plant Genetic Resources Diversity Gateway – a way forward | S Dias |
| Conservation informatics | |
| Keynote: Information technology to assist in conserving and using crop wild relatives and landrace diversity | T van Hintum |
| CAPFITOGEN tools. Facilitated spatial and ecogeographical germplasm analysis for efficient PGR conservation and utilization | M Parra Quijano |
| Thoughts and experiences building an in situ/ex situ information system | M Skofic |
| Implementation of a PGR Global Documentation system in Portugal | AM Barata |
| What do we have to lose? Generating crop diversity and threat monitoring information to support poor farmer livelihoods and public good ecosystem services | E Dulloo |
