Workshop 1 – Room 1
Borlaug Global Rust Initiative
Chair: Maricelis Acevedo (Cornell University, USA)
Workshop 2 – Room 2
WheatIS Annual Meeting
Organized by the Wheat Initiative WheatIS EWG
Chair: Michael Alaux (URGI-INRAE, France)
Workshop 3 – Room 3
Durum for the future farmer and value chain
Organized by the Wheat Initiative Durum Wheat EWG
Chair: Luigi Cattivelli (CREA, Italy)
Workshop 4 – Room 4
Restoring agronomy’s role in wheat production systems
Session organized by the Wheat Initiative Agronomy EWG
Chair: Romulo Lollato (Kansas State University, USA), Kenton Porker (CSIRO, Australia)
Workshop 5 – Room 5
Spatial Wheat Omics
Co-chairs: Zhonghua Chen (University of Adelaide, Australia), Rajeev Varshney (Murdoch University, Australia)
Workshop 6 – Room 6
Actual scenario and perspectives for wheat phenotyping
Session organized by the Wheat Initiative Phenotyping EWG
Chair: Nicola Pecchioni (CREA, Italy), Michela Janni (CNR, Italy)
Workshop 7 (first part) – Room 7
What’s new in wheat NUE ? – Annual meeting of the Wheat Initiative NUE (full day event)
Session organized by the Wheat Initiative Nitrogen Use Efficiency EWG
Chair: Jean Pierre Cohan (ARVALIS, France), Jairo Palta (University of Western Australia), Ivan Monasterio (CIMMYT, Mexico)
Workshop 8 – Room 8
Methods to Understand Combined Abiotic Stresses
Session organized by the Wheat Initiative AWAS EWG
Chair: Laura Dixon (IPK, Germany)
Workshop 9 (first part) – Room 9
Wheat Pathogens Symposium (full day event)
Organized by the Wheat Initiative Pathogens EWG
Chair: Kar Chur Tan (Curtin University, Australia)
12:00 – 13:30 LUNCH BREAK
Workshop 10 – Room 1
Advancing BNI Research Breeding, and Adoption
Organized by CIMMYT
Chair: Dreisigacker Susanne (CIMMYT)
Workshop 11 – Room 2
Current Trends and Challenges in Wheat Breeding
Session organized by the Wheat Initiative Breeding EWGs
Chair: Margaret Krause (Oregon State University, USA)
Workshop 12 – Room 3
Wheat Pest Workshop
Organized by the Wheat Initiative Pests EWG
Chair: Louise McNamara (Oak Park Crops Research Centre, Ireland)
Workshop 13 – Room 4
Global Wheat Pangenomes
Co-chairs: Rajeev Varshney (Murdoch University, Australia)
Marco Maccaferri (University of Bologna)
Workshop 14 – Room 5
Wheat germplasm conservation & utilization: challenges and opportunities
Organized by the Wheat Initiative Germplasm EWG
Chair: Shivali Sharma (Rani Lakshmi Bai Central Agricultural University, India)
Workshop 15 – Room 6
13.30 – 15.30
Hybrid Wheat: Unlocking heterosis for the next generation of breeding
Organized by KWS
Co-chairs: Jochen Reif (IPK, Germany), Gemma Molero (KWS, France)
Workshop 16 – Room 6
15.30 – 18.00
Accelerating Hybrid Wheat Innovation with Multi-Omics
Organized by WheatOmics
Chair: Daolin Fu (Shandong Agricultural University, China)
Workshop 7 (second part) – Room 7
What’s new in wheat NUE ? – Annual meeting of the Wheat Initiative NUE (full day event)
Session organized by the Wheat Initiative Nitrogen Use Efficiency EWG
Chair: Jean Pierre Cohan (ARVALIS, France), Jairo Palta (University of Western Australia), Ivan Monasterio (CIMMYT, Mexico)
Workshop 17 – Room 8
Annual AHEAD Workshop
Chair: Stefanie Hagemann (AHEAD)
Workshop 9 (second part) – Room 9
Wheat Pathogens Symposium (full day event)
Organized by the Wheat Initiative Pathogens EWG
Chair: Kar Chur Tan (Curtin University, Australia)