Wednesday, 6 February 2019
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Morning
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Welcome
09h00 Scene setting and the aims of the workshop (Frank Ordon)
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Hybrid wheat in practice
- 09h10 Volker Lein (Independent Expert): Historical Overview about hybrid wheat breeding
- 09h30 Thierry Moittie (Hybrid wheat breeder ASUR) and Mario Gils (Hybrid wheat breeder Nordsaat): ASUR’s and Nordsaat ‘s experience in hybrid wheat breeding
- 09h45 Changping Zhao, Beijing Hybrid wheat Engineering Technology Research Center: Establishment and application of the technical system of twoline hybrid wheat in China
Heterosis in wheat
- 10h00 Heterosis for grain yield and other traits in Central European Germplasm. (Patrick Thorwarth, University of Hohenheim)
- 10h25 Heterosis and the need for hybrid wheat from a U.S. perspective (Stephen Baenzinger, University of Nebraska)
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Coffee break 10h50 – 11h10
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Morning cont’
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Heterosis in wheat (cont’)
- 11h10 Heterosis and perspectives for hybrid durum wheat (Friedrich Longin, University of Hohenheim)
- 11h35 Genetic distance and hybrid wheat breeding: how diverse should we get? (Philipp Boeven, Limagrain)
CMS systems and sterility restoration
- 12h00 Mapping for restorer genes in the CMStimophevii background (Manuel Geyer, Bayrische Landesanstalt für Landwirtschaft, Freising)
- 12h25 Characterization and resequencing of the RFLPPR gene family as a source of markers and candidate genes for Rf genes in wheat (Nils Stein, IPK Gatersleben)
- 12h40 CMS hybrid breeding at CIMMYT (Bhoja Raj Basnet, CIMMYT
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Lunch 13h05 – 14h00
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Afternoon
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CMS systems and sterility restoration (cont’)
- 14h00 CMS hybrid wheat breeding at Syngenta (Yann Mannes, Syngenta)
What can we learn from other cereals?
- 14h25 Hybrid barley (Gunther Stiewe, Syngenta)
- 14h50 Hybrid rye (Thomas Miedaner, University of Hohenheim)
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Coffee break 15h15-15h35
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Floral biology
- 15h35 Genetic architecture of anther extrusion in wheat and its implications for hybrid wheat production (Tobias Würschum, University of Hohenheim)
- 16h00 The use of wheat/wild relative introgressions for hybrid wheat (Julie King Univ Nottingham)
Breeding schemes
- 16h25 Reciprocal recurrent genomic selection – an attractive tool to leverage hybrid wheat breeding (Jochen Reif, IPK Gatersleben)
Summing up and general discussion
16h50-17h30 What are the areas for research and what are the next steps? (Chris Burt /Gilles Charmet)
18h30 Dinner (10 minutes walk from the venue/hotels)
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