Plenary Speakers

Nikolay Goncharov (Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Russia). “Taxonomy and molecular phylogeny of the genus Triticum L.”
Frank R. Blattner (IPK, Germany) “The evolution of the wheat grasses: Coenogenome vs. taxonomic diversification”.
Tsuyoshi Tanaka (NARO, Japan) “Barley genetic resources and development of genotyping infrastucture”.
Simon Griffiths (John Innes Centre, United Kingdom) “Global journeys of adaptive wheat genes”.
Yusaku Uga (NARO, Japan) “Genomics-based breeding using genetic variation of root system architecture improves crop productivity under abiotic stress conditions”.
Tzion Fahima (Haifa University, Israel) “Diversity and evolution of disease resistance genes derived from wild emmer wheat”.
Qifa Zhang (Huazhong Agricultural University, China) “Green goals and green technologies for future plant breeding”.
Martin Ganal (TraitGenetics GmbH, Germany) “High throughput genotyping for plant research and breeding”
Jochen Kumlehn (IPK, Germany) “Genome engineering in cereals”.
Takao Komatsuda (NARO, Japan) “The potential of barley/wheat orthology to advance cereal grain yield”.
Brande Wulff (John Innes Centre, UK) “Rapid gene cloning in wheat”.
Ming Chen (Zhejiang University, China) “Integrative bioinformatics approaches for cellular interactome modelling of rice”.