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Simon Griffiths (John Innes Centre, United Kingdom) “Global journeys of adaptive wheat genes”. | 
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Yusaku Uga (NARO, Japan) “Genomics-based breeding using genetic variation of root system architecture improves crop productivity under abiotic stress conditions”. | 
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Tzion Fahima (Haifa University, Israel) “Diversity and evolution of disease resistance genes derived from wild emmer wheat”. | 
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Qifa Zhang (Huazhong Agricultural University, China) “Green goals and green technologies for future plant breeding”. | 
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Ming Chen (Zhejiang University, China) “Integrative bioinformatics approaches for cellular interactome modelling of rice”. |