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 5
Durum for the future farmer and value chain
Organized by the Wheat Initiative Durum Wheat EWG
Chair: Luigi Cattivelli (CREA, Italy)
Workshop 4 – CANCELLED by decision of the chairs and the scientific committee.
Restoring agronomy’s role in wheat production systems
Workshop 5 – Room 6
Spatial Wheat Omics
Co-chairs: Zhonghua Chen (University of Adelaide, Australia), Rajeev Varshney (Murdoch University, Australia)
Workshop 6 – Room 4
Actual scenario and perspectives for wheat phenotyping
Organized by the Wheat Initiative Phenotyping EWG
Co-Chairs: 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)
Organized by the Wheat Initiative Nitrogen use efficiency EWG
Co-Chairs: 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
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)
10:00-11:00 COFFEE BREAK
12:30-13:30 LUNCH BREAK
13:30 – 18:00: AFTERNOON SESSION
Workshop 7 (second part) – Room 7
What’s new in wheat NUE? – Annual meeting of the Wheat Initiative NUE (full day event)
Organized by the Wheat Initiative Nitrogen use efficiency EWG
Co-Chairs: Jean Pierre Cohan (ARVALIS, France), Jairo Palta (University of Western Australia), Ivan Monasterio (CIMMYT, Mexico)
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)
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
Organized by the Wheat Initiative breeding EWG
Chair: Margaret Krause (Oregon State University, USA)
Workshop 12 – Room 5
Wheat Pest Workshop
Organized by the Wheat Initiative Pests EWG
Chair: Louise McNamara (Oak Park Crops Research Centre, Ireland)
Workshop 13 – Room 3
Global wheat pangenomes
Co-chairs: Rajeev Varshney (Murdoch University, Australia)
Marco Maccaferri (University of Bologna)
Workshop 14 – Room 6
Wheat germplasm conservation & utilization: Challenges and opportunities
Organized by the Wheat Initiative Germplasm EWG
Co-chairs: Shivali Sharma (Global Crop Diversity Trust, India), Benjamin Kilian (Global Crop Diversity Trust, Germany), Peter Civan (INRAE, France), Hakan Ozkan (Çukurova University, Turkey)
Workshop 15 – Room 4
13.30 – 15.30
Hybrid Wheat: Unlocking heterosis for the next generation of breeding
Organized by KWS
Co-chairs: Jacob Lage (KWS France), Jochen Reif (IPK, Germany)
Workshop 16 – Room 4
15.30 – 18.00
Accelerating hybrid wheat innovation with Multi-Omics
Organized by WheatOmics
Chair: Daolin Fu (Shandong Agricultural University, China)
Workshop 17 – Room 8
Annual AHEAD workshop
Chair: Stefanie Hagemann (AHEAD)
15:30-17:30 COFFEE STATION
18:00 – 20:00 WELCOME RECEPTION