APOMIXIS 2025

9-12 September 2025 - Mercure - Montpellier - France

Bandeau - APOMIXIS 2025

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