Thursday 18 September
DAY 3
08:30-10:20
SESSION 5 - Apomeiosis II
- Keynote - Tim SHARBEL - Univ. Saskatchewan, Canada
The evolution of apomixis in Boechera, a tool for Brassica crops
- Lorena SIENA - IICAR, Univ. Nac Rosario-CONICET, Argentina
Awaiting title
- Marta MENDES - Univ. Milan, Italy
Awaiting title
Selected oral presentations
- S5-O.1 - Transcriptomic and Integrated Network Analysis to study the genetic relationships between apomixis and ploidy in Eragrostis curvula
Danilo Fabrizio SANTORO - Department of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences (DSA3), University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy - S5-O.2 - 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.3 - Title upcoming
Speaker to be confirmed
10:20-11:00
Coffee break - Posters
11:00-12:50
SESSION 6 - Triggering embryogenesis
- 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 - Title upcoming
Speaker to be confirmed - S6-O.2 - Understanding the Molecular Mechanism underlying Parthenogenesis in Cereals
Xixi ZHENG - Cell Biology and Plant Biochemistry, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany - S6-O.3 - Unveiling Molecular Regulators of Synergid Cell Death Through Cell-Specific Transcriptomics
Manuel BUENDIA MONREAL - Department of Biosciences, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
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
Awaiting confirmation
19:30-23:00