The 10th International Barley Genetics Symposium

 

 

Detailed Program & Workshops:

 


 

Detailed Program

 

10th International Barley Genetics Symposium

Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt

5th -10th  April 2008

Detailed Program

Saturday, 5th April 2008

13:00

Registration opens

13:00 – 16:00

Generation Challenge Program (GCP) Workshop

14:00 – 16:00

Barley Genetic Linkage Groups, Barley Genome, Genes and Genetic Stocks

16:00 – 18:00

A New Approach to Genotype Classification for Physiochemical Composition by Near Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) and Multivariate Analysis with Applications in Molecular Research and Plant Breeding

 

 

18:00 – 20:00

Welcome Mixer

 

 

Sunday, 6th April 2008

OPENING SESSION

9:00

Welcome

 

Mahmoud Solh, Director General, International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas, Syria

 

Bibliotheca Alexandrina Representative

 

Agricultural Research Center, Egypt, Representative

 

Jaroslav Spunar, Chairman IBGS, Agricultural Research Institute, Czech Republic

10:00

Barley in Egypt

Maher Noaman

Agricultural Research Centre, Egypt

10:30

Plant Breeding and Climate Changes

Salvatore Ceccarelli

International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas, Syria

11:00

Coffee Break

 

 

SESSION 1 – GERMPLASM AND GENETIC RESOURCES

11:30

New Approaches to Analysis of Germplasm and Genetic Resources

Robert Henry

Centre for Plant Conservation Genetics, Southern Cross University, Australia

12:00

Genetic Diversity and Population Structure of WANA Barley

Orabi J, Backes G and Jahoor A

12:20

Analysis of Molecular Diversity and Population Structure in Barley Landraces Sampled from Tunisia

Ould M Mahmoud Med A and Hamza S, Tunisia

12:40

Variation of Agronomic Traits in Nordic and Baltic Spring Barley

Brantestam AK, von Bothmer R, Rashal I, Gullord M and Weibull J

13:00

Lunch

 

 

SESSION 2 – MOLECULAR BREEDING

15:00

Overview on Molecular Mapping

Andreas Graner

Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research, Germany

15:30

Pedigree Based Marker Assisted Selection: Applications in Barley Breeding Australia – Northern Node

Mace ES, Lawson W, Rodgers D, Franckowiak JD, Platz G, Poulsen DP, Collard B, McPhail M, McKavanagh J, Christopher M, Fox G, Butler D, Douglass D, McGowan P, Hunt C, DeLacy I and Jordan D

15:50

Bayesian Multi-Environmental Advanced Backcross-QTL Analysis in Spring Barley (H. vulgare ssp. spontaneum)

Bauer AM, Hoti F, von Korff M, Pillen K, Léon J, Sillanpää MJ

16:10

Allelic Diversity and Phenotypic Associations at Vernalization Loci in Cultivated Barley

Cockram J, Leigh F, Mackay I, White J, Jones H, Powell W and O’Sullivan DM

16:30

Coffee Break

 

 

17:00 – 19:00

Plant Genetic Resources Workshop

17:00 – 19:00

Assessing Spot Blotch Resistance in Barley Workshop

 

 

Monday, 7th April 2008

SESSION 3 – BARLEY GENOMICS 1

8:30

New Trends in Barley Genomics

David Marshall

Scottish Crop Research Institute, Scotland

9:00

High Throughput TILLING for Functional Genomics in Barley

Gottwald S and Stein N

9:20

Development of TILLMore: a Resource for Forward and Reverse Genetics in Barley

Bovina R, Talamè V, Salvi S, Sanguineti MC, Lesini I, Celestini F, Piffanelli P, Lundquist U and  Tuberosa R

9:40

Association Studies in a Spring Barley Collection

Haseneyer G, Stracke S, Piepho H-P, Graner A and Geiger HH

10:00

Coffee Break

 

 

SESSION 4 – BARLEY GENOMICS 2

10:30

Genomics for Barley: Where will it Take us?

Alan H. Schulman     

MTT/BI Plant Genomics Laboratory, Finland

11:00

Detecting Drought Tolerance Loci in the Barley Genome via Genome Wide Association Mapping

Neumann K, Varshney R, Baum M and Boerner A

11:20

Patterns of Structure and LD in Mediterranean Barley for Adaptation to Drought

Comadran J, Russell JR, Thomas WTB, van Eeuwijk FA, Ceccarelli S, Grando S, Baum M, Stanca AM, Pecchioni. N, Akar T, Al-Yassin A, Benbelkacem A, Choumane W, Ouabbou H, Bort J, Hackett CA and Romagosa I

11:40

Evolution of Barley vrs1

Pourkheirandish M, Wicker T, Stein N, Fujimura T and Komatsuda T

12:00

Lunch

 

 

SESSION 5 – ABIOTIC STRESSES

14:00

Integrated Aspects from Breeding to Genomics of the Abiotic Stress Response

Luigi Cattivelli, Mastrangelo AM, Rizza F, Badeck F, Mazzucotelli  E, Marè C, Crosatti C, Guerra D, Aprile A, Stanca AM

CRA – Genomic Research Centre of Fiorenzuola d’Arda, Italy

CRA – Cereal Research Centre of Foggia, Italy

14:30

Investigating Root Architecture in Barley and Responses to Salinity and High Boron

Coventry SJ, Smith DS, McKay A, Eckermann P and Eglinton JK

14:50

Vernalization-Independent Regulation Pathway of the VRN-H1 Vernalization Response Locus

Karsai I, Szűcs P, Hayes PM, Kőszegi B, Bedő Z and Veisz O

15:10

Physiological Mechanism and Quantitative Trait Loci Associated with Waterlogging Tolerance in Barley

Zhou MX, Pang JY, Li HB, Mendham NJ, Shabala S and Vaillancourt R

15:30

Barley Adaptation to Mediterranean Climates: Lessons Learned from the Spanish Landraces

Igartua E, Casas AM, Lasa JM, Gracia MP, Casao C, Ciudad F, Montoya JL, Moralejo M and Molina-Cano JL

 

 

16:00 – 18:00

Poster Session 1 (includes Coffee Break)

16:30

Guided Tour of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (Group 1)

 

 

Tuesday, 8th April 2008

SESSION 6 – BIOTIC STRESSES 1

8:30

The Barley-Puccinia Rust System: a Model to Study the Genetic Factors that Determine the Host-Status of Plants to Specialized Pathogens

Rients E Niks, Jafary H and Marcel TC

Department of Plant Breeding, Wageningen University, The Netherlands

9:00

Multiple Disease Resistance in the Wild Barley Diversity Collection 

Steffenson BJ, Roy JK, Muehlbauer GJ, Smith KP, Yahyaoui A, Valkoun J and Grando S

9:20

Markers for Resistance against Three Foliar Diseases in Barley

Lehmensiek A, Sutherland MW , Bovill JH, Platz GJ, McNamara RB and Mace E

9:40

Contribution of ICARDA to Improve Fusarium Head Blight Tolerance in Barley – 20 Years of International Collaboration

Capettini F, Grando S, Wright L and Skoglund L

10:00

Coffee Break

 

 

SESSION 7 – BIOTIC STRESSES 2

10:30

Durable Resistance against Net Blotch in Barley

Outi Manninen

MTT Agrifood Research Finland, Finland

11:00

An Association-Genetic Approach to Durable Powdery-Mildew Resistance in Barley

Johrde A and Schweizer P

11:20

Resistance Effects on Asymptomatic infection of Rhynchosporium secalis on Winter and Spring Barley

Atkins SD, Fraaije B, Lucas JA, Fitt BDL and Newton AC

11:40

Fusarium Head Blight Evaluation and Genetic Diversity Assessment by Simple Sequence Repeats in Barley Cultivars and Landraces 

Jia QJ, Zhu JH, Wang JM and Yang JM

12:00

Lunch

 

 

SESSION 8 – BARLEY USES: MALT

14:00

Global warming Impact: Winter Barley as Reserve Crop for Brewing Industry in the Traditional European Countries Declaring Exclusive or Dominant Spring Malting Barley Utilization

Jaroslav Spunar, Blumel H and Fouquin G

Agricultural Research Institute, Czech Republic

SECOBRA, Germany

SECOBRA, France

14:30

Pyramiding QTLs to Improve Malting Quality in Barley: Genetic Gains in Phenotype and Diversity

Emebiri LC, Michael P, Moody DB and Ogbonnaya FC

14:50

Varietal and Site Interactions in the Growing of Malting Barley for Distilling and Brewing

Bringhurst TA, Glasgow E, Agu RC, Brosnan JM and Thomas WTB

15:10

Proteome Analysis of Wort, Boiled Wort, and Beer Proteins

Iimure T, Nankaku N, Hirota N, Zhou TS, Kihara M, Hayashi K, Ito K and Sato K 

15:30

Improvement of Two-row Malt Barley Through Two x Six-row Hybridization in India

Verma RPS, Sarkar B and Mishra B

16:00 – 18:00

Poster Session 2 (includes Coffee Break)

16:30

Guided Tour of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (Group 2)

 

 

Wednesday, 9th April 2008

SESSION 9 – BARLEY USES: FOOD

8:30

The Genetics of (1,3;1,4)-beta-glucan Synthesis in Barley: Applications in Food, Feed and Beer

Geoff B Fincher

Adelaide University, Australia

9:00

Barley for Food: Traits and Improvements

Ullrich SE, Baik B-K, Quinde-Axtell Z and Nair S

9:20

Food Barley Quality Evaluation of an International Barley Landrace Collection 

Jilal A, Grando S, Henry RJ, Lee LS and Rice N

9:40

Effect of β-glucans and Starch Type on Glycaemic Response after Consumption of Barley Bread

Finocchiraro F, Gianinetti A, Ferrari B and Stanca AM

10:00

Coffee Break

 

 

SESSION 10 – BARLEY USES: FEED

10:30

Breeding Barley for End-use Quality

James H Helm

Field Crop Development Centre, Canada

11:00

Barley QTL:  A Compilation of Known Loci and the Discovery of New QTL for Digestibility

Blake VC and Blake TK

11:20

Prospects of Barley in Augmenting Forage Resource in Arid and Semi Arid Regions

Shrimali M

11:40

Visualising the Seed Phenome as a Physiochemical Near Infrared Spectral Response Interface for Genes, Mutants and Environment to be Applied  in Basic Genetics and in Plant Breeding for Quality

Munck L, Pontoppidan Møller B and Nørgaard L

12:00

Lunch

 

 

SESSION 11 – BIOCHEMISTRY, CYTOGENETICS AND TRANSFORMATION

14:00

Genetic Engineering in Barley: Current Technologies and Recent Applications

Jochen Kumlehn

Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research, Germany

14:30

Accessing the Wild Side of Barley

Johnston PA, Pickering R and Meiyalaghan V

14:50

Proteomics Approach for Identification of Specific Proteins in Salt Tolerant Barley

Sugimoto M

15:10

Uzu, a Barley Semi-dwarf Gene, Suppresses Plant Regeneration in Calli Derived from Immature Embryos

Rikiishi K, Saisho D and Takeda K

15:30

Coffee Break

 

 

SESSION 12 – FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS

16:00

Functional genomics approaches to tackling abiotic stress tolerance

Peter Langridge, Paltridge N, Fincher G and Sutton T

Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics, Australia

16:30

Transcriptome Study of Storage Protein Genes of Field-Grown Barley in Response to Inorganic Nitrogen Fertilisers

Hansen M, Bowra S, Lange M, Holm PB and Vincze E

 

 

17:00-18:00

Global Crop Diversity Trust - Global Strategy for the Ex Situ Conservation and Use of Barley Germplasm

Jan Valkoun, Czech Republic

 

 

19:30

Symposium Dinner

 

 

Thursday, 10th April 2008

SESSION 13 – BARLEY AND DEVELOPMENT

8:30

Barley in Ethiopia

Alemayehu Asefa, Ethiopia

8:50

Barley Improvement in Peru

Gómez Pando L, Peru

9:10

Barley improvement in the Central Asia and Caucasus Region

Djumakhanov B, Sariev B, Ortaev A, Bessonova T, Shesnova V, Halikov P,Oripov Sh and Gashimova H, ICARDA, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan

9:30

Participatory Varietal Selection of Barley Varieties in Tigray (Northern Ethiopia) and Implication for Low Input Conditions

Fetien Abay and Bjørnstad Å, Ethiopia and Norway

10:00

Coffee Break

 

 

SESSION 14 – BARLEY SUCCESS STORIES

10:30

Cloning Barley Genes Known Only by Phenotype

Andris Kleinhofs

Washington State University, USA

11:00

Breeding for Resistance to Barley Leaf Rust in a Highly Favourable Environment for Diseases

Silvia Germán, Pereyra S, Castro M and Díaz J

INIA La Estanzuela, Uruguay

11:30

The Evolution of Barley in Brazil: Contributions of  Embrapa 30 Years of Research and Development

Euclydes Minella, EMBRAPA, Brazil

 12:00

Lunch

 

 

CLOSING SESSION

14:00