Thursday 18 September
DAY 3
08:30-10:20
SESSION 5 - Apomeiosis II
Chair: Nada ŠURBANOVSKI
- Keynote - Üeli GROSSNIKLAUS - Department of Plant and Microbial Biology & Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center,
Univ. of Zurich, Switzerland
Towards the Engineering of Synthetic Apomixis in Maize
- Marta MENDES - Univ. Milan, Italy
Disruption of miR160-mediated ARF10 silencing triggers aposporous phenotypes in Arabidopsis ovules
- Lorena SIENA - IICAR, Univ. Nac Rosario-CONICET, Argentina
Interplay between QGJ and TGS1 during female reproductive development in Arabidopsis thaliana
Selected oral presentations
- S5-O.1 - Evidence of pseudogamous aposporous apomixis in tetraploid sunflower
Silvina Claudia PESSINO - Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias Agrarias de Rosario, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Zavalla, Santa Fe, Argentina - S5-O.2 - The BUD13 Splicing Regulator: Expression of Its Isoforms in Ovules of Sexual and Apomictic Paspalum notatum
Draga SAMELA - University of Padova, Padova, Italy - S5-O.3 - Arabidopsis mutants defective in the Auxin Response Repressor IAA16 exhibit developmental alterations during female reproduction
Maria Sol VEGA - Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias Agrarias de Rosario (IICAR) CONICET-UNR, Zavalla, Argentina
10:20-11:00
Coffee break - Posters
11:00-12:50
SESSION 6 - Triggering embryogenesis
Chair: Laurine GILLES
- Keynote - Charles J. UNDERWOOD - Radboud University, Netherlands
Eternally hybrid: natural and engineered propagation of hybrid genomes through seeds
- Thomas WIDIEZ - RDP-ENS Lyon, France
On the Road to Apomixis in Maize: A Win for Embryogenesis, a Wait for Apomeiosis
- Kenny BOGAERT - Max Planck Institute for Biology, Tübingen, Germany
Apomixis in the Sea? Parthenogenesis and Maternal Cues in Seaweeds
Selected oral presentations
- S6-O.1 - OsPLDα2-dependent synthetic apomixis enables normal seed setting in hybrid rice via genome editing
Chao-Lei LIU - China National Rice Research Institute, Hangzhou, China - S6-O.2 - Unveiling Molecular Regulators of Synergid Cell Death Through Cell-Specific Transcriptomics
Manuel BUENDIA MONREAL - Department of Biosciences, University of Milan, Milan, Italy - S6-O.3 - Understanding the Molecular Mechanism underlying Parthenogenesis in Cereals
Xixi ZHENG - Cell Biology and Plant Biochemistry, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
12:50-14:00
Lunch & Coffee - Posters
14:00-15:30
Forum Table 1 - Missing tools for harnessing apomixis in plant breeding?
Chair: Silvina PESSINO - IICAR, Univ. Nac Rosario-CONICET, Argentina
- Emmanuel GUIDERDONI - CIRAD, France
Kejian WANG - China National Rice Research Institute, China
Peggy OZIAS-AKINS - Univ. Tifton, USA
Emidio ALBERTINI - University of Perugia, Italy
15:30-16:00
Coffee break - Posters
16:00-18:00
Forum Table 2 - Apomixis, a plant breeding innovation?
Chair: Liana JANK - EMBRAPA, breeder, Brazil
- Stéphane LEMARIÉ - INRAe, GAEL Grenoble, France
Viviana ECHENIQUE - CERZOS-Univ. Nac del Sur-CONICET, Argentina
Marc ALBERTSEN - Albertsen Crop Genetics for Humanity, Johnston, USA
Awaiting confirmation
19:30-23:00