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

IBGS Business Meeting

15:00

Conclusion – Jaroslav Spunar, Chairman International Organizing Committee IBGS, Agricultural Research Institute, Czech Republic

 

 

 


 

Workshops

 

Saturday, 5th April 2008

 

Generation Challenge Program (GCP) Workshop

13:00-16:00

 

13:00-13:30

Overview about the GCP

Rajeev Varshney, Sub-Program Leader 2, ICRISAT

13:30-14:00

Allele Mining Based on Non-Coding Regulatory SNPs in barley germplasm

Maria von Korff

14:00-14:30

A dataset on allele diversity at orthologous candidate genes in GCP crops (ADOC)

Dominique This, Montpellier SupAgro, Agropolis-France

14:30-15:00

Genomic Dissection of Tolerance to Drought Stress in Wild Barley

Joanne Russel, SCRI

15:00-15:30

Developing and genotyping a composite germplasm set of barley

Wafa Choumane

15:30-16:00

Discussion

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

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

14:00-16:00

 

Contact person

Dr. Udda Lundqvist, Nordic Gene Bank, P.O.Box 41, SE-23053 Alnarp, Sweden

Fax: +46 40 536650; Email: udda@nordgen.org

 

Preliminary program and topics for discussion

  1. The coordinator system for the seven barley chromosomes, their linkage groups and the barley collections, their function and importance of to-day

  2. Discussion of the need of this system in the future, the activities of to-day should they continue or should they be revised. Necessary suggetions

  3. The whole genome coordination: Modernization of the overall system and integration of all types of current and historical data collections into a single and combined database

  4. Barley Genetics Newsletter: its function to-day and in the future

  5. Integration of molecular and morphological marker maps. Many existing gene markers are of great importance for the whole barley community when sequencing genes

  6. The International Database for Barley Genes and Barley Genetic Stocks as a AceDB database server system and its integration into the Triticeae database “GrainGenes”

  7. Germplasm problems in connection with the database

  8. The maintenance of Barley Genetic Stocks: future descriptions of characters, future distribution and co-ordination

  9. Problems of nomenclature and symbolization of barley genes. Main emphasis on resistant gene symbolization. (J.D. Franckowiak and Brian Steffenson)

  10. International Chairman of the barley linkage groups and collections. Need in the future?

  11. Relevant and important topics suggetsed by the participants of the workshop or by the International Barley Genetics Symposium.

 


 

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

16:00-18:00

 

Contact person

Professor Lars Munck, Life Science Faculty, Spectroscopic and Chemometric group, Department of Food Science, Copenhagen University.

Website:  www.models.life.ku.dk; Email:  lmu@life.ku.dk.

 

Background

Near infrared spectrometers and commercial software are today used for estimation of chemical composition of specific analyses by plant breeders. The workshop will demonstrate that genotype classification for complex quality traits are possible by a simple Principal Component Analysis (PCA) data program without the need for commercial calibrations to be used in barley molecular research and plant breeding. The NIR approach is supplementary to selection by Qualitative Trait Loci (QTL´s)

 

Program

16:00-17:00

Introduction - New uses of Near Infrared Spectroscopy and multivariate analysis for convenient  genotype classification in molecular biology and plant breeding

Lars Munck

17:00-17:30

Short presentations regarding experiences of the use of NIRS in barley research and plant breeding are welcome

Please contact to the e-mail address above

17:30-18:00

Discussion

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Literature

L.Munck A new holistic exploratory approach to systems biology by near infrared spectroscopy evaluated by chemometrics and data inspection. J.Chemometrics 21:406-426 (2007).

 

L.Munck and B.Møller. Principal Component Analysis of Near Infrared Spectra as a tool of Endeosperm Mutant Characterization and in Barley Breeding for Quality. Czech.J.Genet.Plant.Breed. 41 (3). (IBGS-9)

 

L.Munck, B.Møller, J.Pram Nielsen. From plant breeding to data breeding – How new multivariate screening methods could bridge the information gap between the genotype and the phenotype. Proceedings IBGS 8 Dept.Plant Science. Adelaide University, Glen Osmond, South Australia Vol lI pp 179-182.

 


 

Sunday, 6th April 2008

 

Plant Genetic Resources

17:00-19:00

 

Contact person

Dr. Michael Mackay, Curator, Australian Winter Cereals Collection

NSW Department of Primary Industries, Australia

Email: michael.mackay@dpi.nsw.gov.au

 

Preliminary program and topics for discussion

  1. GPG2 Barley Crop Registry  - Convenor: J Konopka

  2. FIGS Utilization/Evaluation - Convenor: M Mackay

  3. GCDT Evaluation Awards project - Convenor: M Ambrose

 


 

Assessing spot blotch resistance in barley

17:00-19:00

 

Background

This workshop will discuss the nature and stability of resistance to spot blotch (Bipolaris sorokiniana/Cochliobolus sativus) in barley, with particular emphasis on the range of international resistance sources and the types of resistance characterized to date by both molecular and pathogenicity studies. One goal is to begin developing an international differential set that can be used for characterizing fungal isolates with respect to their pathogenicity in the presence of major resistance genes. The workshop format will encourage debate of the issues based around a series of short 5-10 minute presentations. Anyone who would like to present work relevant to the workshop should send a title and short abstract to:

 

Professor Mark W Sutherland

Director, Centre for Systems Biology

University of Southern Queensland

Toowoomba Q 4350

Australia

Ph:61-7-4631-2360

Fax: 61-7-4631-1530

email: marksuth@usq.edu.au

 

Deadline for submission of contributions: 10 March.