Program at a Glance
The International Organizing Committee is happy to announce the 1st International Wheat Congress program!
The program reflects six themes of interest:
- Wheat Diversity, Evolution, and Genetic Resources
- Structural and Functional Genomics of Wheat and Wheat Relatives
- Wheat Improvement: Breeding, Physiology, and Enabling technologies
- Wheat Production Systems: Environment, Sustainability, and Management
- Protecting Yield: Resistance to Biotic and Abiotic Stresses
- Wheat Uses: Functionality, Nutrition, Safety and Human Health.
Click on each day below to see what is on the program!
Welcome Reception
Location: TCU Place
Time: 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
| 08:50-09:30 OPENING CEREMONY |
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| 09:30-10:30 OPENING LECTURE |
| 10:30-11:20 PLENARY LECTURE Creating a Sustainable Food Future Timothy D. Searchinger Senior Fellow World Resources Institute |
| 11:20-11:50 COFFEE BREAK |
| 11:50-12:20 1 GENOMIC DISSECTION OF ABIOTIC STRESSES (Australia) |
| 12:20-12:40 2 MAPPING THE HIGH TEMPERATURE-REGULATED WHEAT PHOSPHOPROTEOME AS A SOURCE FOR NOVEL BREEDING MARKERS (Belgium) |
| 12:40-13:40 LUNCH |
| 13:40-14:00 3 EVALUATION AND ASSOCIATION MAPPING OF A COMBINED HEAT-SALINITY STRESS TOLERANCE IN A WHEAT MULTIPLE SYNTHETIC DERIVATIVES POPULATION (Japan) |
| 14:00-14:20 4 POSITIONAL CLONING OF A LOCUS INCREASING BIOMASS AND YIELD IN WHEAT IN HOT CONDITIONS (Australia) |
| 14:20-14:40 5 THE HEAT AND DROUGHT WHEAT IMPROVEMENT CONSORTIUM (HEDWIC) (Mexico) |
| 14:40-15:00 6 APPLICATION OF NEXT-GENERATION GENOMICS AND PHENOMICS TOOLS TO IDENTIFY CANDIDATE GENES FOR WINTER-SURVIVAL IN WINTER WHEAT (Canada) (S) |
| 15:00-15:20 7 FROST DAMAGE ON GRAIN NUMBER IN WHEAT AT DIFFERENT SPIKE DEVELOPMENTAL STAGES AND ITS MODELLING (Argentina) (S) |
| 15:20-15:50 COFFEE BREAK |
| 15:50-16:20 JOINT SESSION: WHEAT AND HUMAN HEALTH: 8 PROGRESS OF THE INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION FOR ENHANCING WHEAT QUALITY FOR PROCESSING AND HEALTH (Japan) (S) |
| 16:20-17:00 9 ASPARAGINE CONTENT OF CANADIAN WHEAT: COUNTERACTING A COMMERCIAL THREAT (Canada) |
| 17:00-17:20 10 CHARACTERIZATION OF BIOFORTIFIED HARVESTPLUS WHEAT GENOTYPES FOR ROOT UPTAKE, SHOOT TRANSLOCATION, FOLIAR ABSORPTION, RE-MOBILIZATION AND SEED DEPOSITION OF ZN (Turkey)(S) |
| 17:20-17:40 11 TAILORING NON-IMMUNOGENIC WHEAT GENOTYPES FOR GLUTEN-SENSITIVE INDIVIDUALS (USA) |
| 17:40-19:30 REMAI MODERN EVENING NETWORKING RECEPTION Remai Modern Museum |
| 08:40-09:10 JOINT PLENARY: WHEAT EVOLUTION, DIVERSITY, AND GENETIC RESOURCES 12 THE ORIGIN OF DOMESTICATED WHEAT IN LIGHT OF HAPLOTYPE ANALYSES OF THE BRITTLE RACHIS 1 GENES (BTR1-A AND BTR1-B) (Israel) | |
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| 09:10-09:40 JOINT PLENARY: WHEAT FUNTIONALITY: 13 EXPLOITING GENETIC DIVERSITY TO IMPROVE FIBRE AND OTHER BIOACTIVE COMPONENTS (UK) | |
| 09:40-10:00 14a EXOME SEQUENCING HIGHLIGHTS THE ROLE OF HISTORIC WILD RELATIVE INTROGRESSION IN BROADENING THE ADAPTIVE POTENTIAL OF MODERN BREAD WHEAT (USA) | 09:40-10:00 14b DIVERSIFICATION OF DURUM WHEAT INDUSTRIAL END-USES THROUGH THE GENETIC MODIFICATION OF ITS GLUTENIN COMPOSITION AND GRAIN TEXTURE (Mexico) |
| 10:00-10:20 15a CHROMOSOME ENGINEERING OF WHEAT- AGROPYRON CRISTATUM AND GENE MINING OF THE NOVEL GERMPLASM (China) | 10:00-10:20 15b WHAT’S XAT? MOVING A GENE FROM THE D GENOME TO THE A GENOME (Australia) |
| 10:20-10:40 16a ANALYSIS OF THE RECOMBINATION LANDSCAPE OF HEXAPLOID BREAD WHEAT REVEALS GENES CONTROLLING RECOMBINATION AND GENE CONVERSION FREQUENCY (UK) | 10:20-10:40 16b DATA INTEGRATION TO IDENTIFY KEY METABOLIC PROTEINS INVOLVED IN WHEAT STORAGE PROTEIN SYNTHESIS (France) |
| 10:40-11:10 COFFEE BREAK | |
| 11:10-11:30 17a CANADIAN WHEAT – NAM: A POWEFUL RESOURCE (Canada) | 11:10-11:30 17b GLUTENIN SUBUNIT COMPOSITION AND AMINO ACID DEPOSITION OF LANDRACES AND MODERN DURUM WHEAT CULTIVARS WITH CONTRASTING GLUTEN (Chile) |
| 11:30-11:50 18a IMPROVING FLORET FERTILITY THROUGH THE MUTATION OF A HOMEOBOX GENE DURING WHEAT EVOLUTION UNDER DOMESTICATION (Japan) | 11:30-11:50 18b UNVEILING THE IMPACT OF PROTEIN QUANTITY AND QUALITY ON TEXTURAL PROPERTIES (Canada) |
| 11:50-12:10 19a SELECTION SIGNATURES IN CIMMYT’S INTERNATIONAL ELITE SPRING AND SEMI-ARID WHEAT YIELD TRIALS (Germany) (S) | 11:50-12:10 19b WHEAT QUALITY: THE IMPACT OF GENOTYPE, ENVIRONMENT, AND PROCESSING ON FUNCTIONALITY AND NUTRITION IN VARIOUS APPLICATIONS (Sweden) |
| 12:10-12:30 20a SVEVO DURUM WHEAT GENOME SEQUENCE AS A FRAMEWORK TO INVESTIGATE TETRAPLOID WHEAT (TRITICUM TURGIDUM SSPS.) EVOLUTION AND DIVERSITY (Italy) | 12:10-12:30 20b MOLECULAR MARKER DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION FOR IMPROVING QUALITIES IN BREAD WHEAT (China) |
| 12:30-13:30 LUNCH | |
| 13:30-13:50 21a GERMPLASM EXCHANGE UNDER THE CONVENTION FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY: IMPLICATIONS FOR WHEAT RESEARCH (USA) | 13:30-13:50 21b VARIABILITY IN MONO- AND POLYMERIC PROTEINS IN A WORLDWIDE COLLECTION OF COMMERCIAL DURUM WHEAT CULTIVARS AND CORRELATIONS WITH ALVEOGRAPH W AND P/L (South Africa) |
| 13:50-14:10 22a WILD EMMER WHEAT ALLELES PROMOTE DROUGHT ADAPTATION MECHANISMS FOR CHANGING CLIMATE (Israel) (S) | 13:50-14:10 22b DEVELOPMENT OF CAROTENOID PIGMENT ENRICHED BREAD WHEAT THROUGH MARKER ASSISTED SELECTION (India) |
14:10-16:00 Themes presented: • Wheat Diversity, Evolution, and Genetic Resources | |
| 16:00-16:30 23 EVIDENCE FOR THE VALUE OF SYNTHETIC, LANDRACE AND INTROGRESSION TO IMPROVE ADAPTATION TO HEAT STRESS: NEW INSIGHTS RELATED WITH NIGHT TRANSPIRATION (Mexico) | |
| 16:30-17:10 24 GENETIC RESOURCES FOR SPRING WHEAT BREEDING IN SIBERIA: SYNTHETICS, NORTH AMERICAN VARIETIES, KASIB NETWORK MATERIAL (Russian Federation) | |
| 17:10-17:30 25 INTRODUCING NEW GENETIC DIVERSITY INTO WHEAT (UK) | |
| 17:30-17:50 26 OZWHEAT: A NEW PLATFORM FOR ASSOCIATION GENETICS AND MARKER DEVELOPMENT (Australia) (S) | |
| 17:50-18:10 27 GOBII TRANSFORMING BREEDING THROUGH INTEGRATED DATA MANAGEMENT AND GENOMIC-ASSISTED SELECTION (USA) | |
| 18:10-19:10 WHEAT INITATIVE GENERAL ASSEMBLY | |
| 08:40-09:10 JOINT PLENARY: WHEAT IMPROVEMENT – STRATEGIES AND TECHNOLOGIES: 28 SPRING BREAD WHEAT BREEDING AT ICARDA: PROGRESS FOR YIELD, DROUGHT AND HEAT TOLERANCE TARGETING CWANA AND SSA REGIONS (Morocco) |
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| 09:10-09:30 29 ON THE HOLISTIC INTEGRATION OF GENOMIC SELECTION WITHIN A COMMERCIAL WHEAT BREEDING PROGRAMME (Australia) |
| 09:30-09:50 30 BREAD-MAKING QUALITY PREDICTIONS: OPTIMIZATION OF MULTI-TRAIT ASSISTED GENOMIC SELECTION (France) (S) |
| 09:50-10:10 31 PROSPECTS OF HYBRID WHEAT BREEDING FOR A SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE (Germany) |
| 10:10-10:30 32 ENABLING NEW WHEAT BREEDING SCHEMES – MERGING DOMINANT MALE STERILITY AND MARKER TECHNOLOGY (USA) |
| 10:30-11:00 COFFEE BREAK |
| 11:00-11:20 33 HOW PPD-1 GENES AFFECT PHENOLOGY AND YIELD FORMATION OF DURUM WHEAT UNDER CONTRASTING LATITUDES (Spain) |
| 11:20-11:40 34 DELAYING OR DELIVERING? UNDERSTANDING WHEAT SENESCENCE (UK) (S) |
| 11:40-12:00 35 ARE IHT (INCREASED HEIGHT), NOT RHT (REDUCED HEIGHT), GENES IMPORTANT TO DEFINE BETTER WHEAT ADAPTATION TO EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS WITH CONSTANT DROUGHT AND HEAT? (Kazakstan) (S) |
| 12:00-12:20 36 THE BREEDER’S EXEMPTION AND ITS ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS ON WINTER WHEAT PRODUCTION IN (Germany) (S) |
| 12:20-12:40 37 ALLELIC DIVERSITY STUDY OF FUNCTIONAL GENES IN EAST AFRICA BREAD WHEAT GERMPLASM HIGHLIGHTS OPPORTUNITIES FOR GENETIC IMPROVEMENT (Africa) |
| 12:40-13:40 LUNCH |
| 13:40-14:00 38 UAV-BASED HIGH-THROUGHPUT PHENOTYPING FOR WHEAT BREEDING AND PHYSIOLOGICAL PRE-BREEDING (Mexico) |
| 14:00-14:20 39 THE USE OF MAGIC AND NAM POPULATIONS IN WHEAT PRE-BREEDING (Denmark) |
| 14:20-14:40 40 CRISPR-BASED PRECISION BREEDING IN WHEAT (USA) (S) |
| 14:40-15:00 41 CHALLENGES OF TRAIT COMPLEXES IN SPRING WHEAT BREEDING (Canada) |
| 15:00-22:00 KERNEN FARM TOUR AND DINNER Kernen Farm |
| 08:30-09:00 JOINT PLENARY: STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS 42 MULTIPLE HIGH QUALITY WHEAT GENOME ASSEMBLIES REVEAL EXTENSIVE VARIATION IN THE PAN-GENOME OF ELITE CULTIVARS (Germany, Canada) | |
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| 09:00-09:30 JOINT PLENARY: 43 YIELD GAPS IN WHEAT: PATH TO ENHANCING PRODUCTIVITY (USA) | |
| 09:30-09:50 CONCURRENT SESSION (Strucutral/Function): 44a PAN-TRANSCRIPTOME ANALYSIS OF ELITE DURUM WHEAT VARIETIES (Italy) (S) | 09:30-09:50 CONCURRENT SESSION: PATH TO YIELD POTENTIAL IN WHEAT 44b MATCHING GENOTYPE AND SOWING TIME TO OPTIMISE WHEAT FLOWERING TIME AND YIELD (Australia) |
| 09:50-10:10 45a IMPROVED REFERENCE GENOME ASSEMBLY OF CHINESE SPRING REVEALS STRUCTURAL CHANGES OF WHEAT A, B AND D SUBGENOMES COMPARED TO PROGENITOR GENOMES (USA) | 09:50-10:10 45b EXPLORING LONG-TERM VARIETY PERFORMANCE TRIALS TO IMPROVE G × E × M RECOMMENDATIONS: A CASE STUDY FOR WINTER WHEAT (Brasil) (S) |
| 10:10-10:30 46a A CONSOLIDATED GENE ANNOTATION FOR THE 10+ WHEAT GENOME PROJECT (Germany) | 10:10-10:30 46b SUSTAINABLE INTENSIFICATION OF WHEAT AGRONOMY WITH GXEXM PRINCIPLES (Canada) |
| 10:30-11:00 COFFEE BREAK | |
| 11:00-11:20 47a SEQUENCE BASED MAPPING IDENTIFIES AWNS1, A CANDIDATE TRANSCRIPTION REPRESSOR UNDERLYING AWN SUPPRESSION AT THE B1 LOCUS IN WHEAT (USA) (S) | 11:00-11:20 47b UNDERSTANDING WHEAT SPIKE DEVELOPMENT TO IMPROVE GRAIN YIELD POTENTIAL (USA) |
| 11:20-11:40 48a FINE-MAPPING OF THE FUSARIUM HEAD BLIGHT RESISTANCE QTL QFHS.IFA-5A IDENTIFIED TWO RESISTANCE QTL ASSOCIATED WITH ANTHER EXTRUSION (Austria) | 11:20-11:40 48b POST-ANTHESIS GREEN CANOPY DURATION CONTRIBUTES TO BREEDING PROGRESS OF GERMAN WINTER WHEAT (Germany) (S) |
| 11:40-12:00 49a THE WHEAT NAC TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NAC-3 IS A POSITIVE REGULATOR OF SENESCENCE (UK) (S) | 11:40-12:00 49b GENETIC AND PHYSIOLOGICAL DETERMINANTS OF WHEAT NITROGEN RESPONSE (UK) |
| 12:00-12:30 JOINT PLENARY: PROTECTING YIELD AND QUALITY: BIOTIC STRESSES 50 A TALE OF THREE WHEAT GENES REVEALS THE ABILITY OF A NECROTROPHIC PATHOGEN TO BAMBOOZLE DIVERSE HOST TARGETS (USA) | |
| 12:30-12:50 51 ELUCIDATING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN YR7, YR5 AND YRSP: A BED-TIME STORY (UK) (S) | |
| 12:50-13:50 LUNCH | |
13:50-15:40 Themes presented: • Structural and Functional Genomics of Wheat and Wheat Relatives | |
| 15:40-16:00 52 MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION OF THE DURABLE LR34 DISEASE RESISTANCE GENE (Saudi) | |
| 16:00-16:20 53 ADULT PLANT STEM RUST STEM RUST RESISTANCE GENE SR2 REQUIRES A COMPLEX NETWORK OF GENES ON CHROMOSOME 3B AND 4B FOR RESISTANCE (Australia) | |
| 16:20-17:00 54 UNCOVERING THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN YR15, YRH52, AND YRG303 – THREE STRIPE RUST RESISTANCE GENES ORIGINATED FROM WILD EMMER WHEAT (Israel) (S) | |
| 17:00-17:20 55 WHEAT GENOME ASSEMBLIES PROVIDE NEW INSIGHTS INTO THE MAJOR STEM-SOLIDNESS LOCUS SST1 (Canada) | |
| 17:20-17:40 56 BREEDING WEED COMPETITIVE WHEATS (Australia) | |
| 17:40-18:00 BUISNESS MEETING | |
| 19:00-22:00 GALA DINNER AND AWARD CEREMONY TCU Place | |
| 09:10-09:40 JOINT PLENARY: BRIDGING THE YIELD GAP 57 THE INTERNATIONAL WHEAT YIELD PARTNERSHIP (IWYP) – AN EFFECTIVE MODEL FOR INTEGRATING WHEAT SCIENCE TO INCREASE YIELD POTENTIAL (USA) |
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| 09:40-10:00 58 WARM NIGHTS DURING DIFFERENT PERIODS OF CROP CYCLE REDUCE YIELD AND ITS NUMERICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL COMPONENTS IN WHEAT AND BARLEY: FROM FIELD STUDIES TO MODELING (Argentina) |
| 10:00-10:20 59 DYNAMICS OF SPRING WHEAT YIELDS IN NORTH AMERICA AND EURASIA IN 1981-2015: EFFECT OF ENVIRONMENTS, CLIMATE CHANGE AND GERMPLASM ADAPTATION (Turkey) |
| 10:20-10:40 60 GLOBAL NETWORK OF PRECISION FIELD-BASED WHEAT PHENOTYPING PLATFORMS (Mexico) |
| 10:40-11:10 COFFEE BREAK |
| 11:10-11:30 61 COMBINING ECO-PHYSIOLOGY, GENETICS AND CROP MODELING TO ENHANCE WHEAT YIELDS UNDER VARIABLE WATER AVAILABILITY REGIMES (USA) |
| 11:30-11:50 62 GENETIC DISSECTION OF DURUM WHEAT ROOT SYSTEM AND CANOPY MORPHOLOGICAL TRAITS BY MEAN OF HIGH-THROUGHPUT PHENOTYPING PLATFORM (Italy) |
| 11:50-12:10 63 SUSTAINABLE INTENSIFICATION OF WHEAT SYSTEMS IN WESTERN INDO-GANGETIC PLAINS OF SOUTH ASIA FOR IMPROVING PRODUCTIVITY AND FARM PROFITABILITY (India) |
| 12:10-12:30 64 SUCCESSES AND FAILURES IN INTERNATIONAL WHEAT ROYALTY COLLECTION (Canada) |
| 12:30-13:40 LUNCH |
| 13:40-14:00 65 TOWARDS SELF-SUFFICIENCY OF WHEAT PRODUCTION IN UGANDA: TRENDS AND OPPORTUNITIES (Uganda) |
| 14:00-14:20 66 SUSTAINABLE WHEAT PRODUCTION IN MEDITERRANEAN AREAS: CONSIDERING CROP DIVERSIFICATION AS NEW STRATEGY (Spain) |
| 14:20-14:50 CONGRESS CLOSING CEREMONY |