Sorghum 2023

Antigone 1, 2 & 3 areas (Level 2)Registration

Antigone 1, 2 & 3 areas (Level 2)Registration

Plenary Sessions

Pasteur Auditorium (Level 1)Welcoming Addresses

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Pasteur Auditorium (Level 1)Opening Plenary

Chair: TBC

• In what climatic context does the evolution of agriculture take place?
  Nathalie de Noblet-Ducoudré (CEA - Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France)

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Antigone 1, 2 & 3 areas (Level 2)Coffee break - Visit of exhibition - Posters

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Pasteur Auditorium (Level 1)Plenary 1 - Genomics and Breeding

Chair: TBC

• The nexus between modelling and experimentation in understanding and predicting the ecophysiological basis of crop adaptation
  Graeme Hammer (University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia)

• Developing sorghum hybrids to meet market needs
  Laura Mayor (Corteva Agriscience, Manhattan, USA)

Antigone 1, 2 & 3 areas (Level 2)Lunch & Coffee - Visit of exhibition - Posters

Parallel Sessions 1

Barthez Room (Level 2)Physiology and Phenotyping tools to support breeding -1-

Chair: Krishna Jagadish

Selected oral presentations

• O01 - Flowering response to photoperiod combines the effect of the daylength with the effects of the daily changes in sunrise and sunset times and of temperature acclimation
  Benoit Clerget (UMR AGAP Institute, CIRAD, Montpellier, France)

• O02 - Dissecting the genetic value and genetic variability for the LT trait in sorghum: from simulations to field phenomics
  Rubi Raymundo (Soil and Crops sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States)

• O03 - Contrasts in leaf photosynthetic low-light response across temperatures generate differences in crop-scale radiation use efficiency
  Alex Wu (QAAFI, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia)

• O04 - Plant response to a late heat stress can be modified by an earlier one: a case study on sorghum grain production
  Angelique Berger (Agap Institut, Cirad, Montpellier, France)

Sully 1 Room (Level 1)Agroecological intensification -1-

Chair: Ana Carcedo

Selected oral presentations

• O05 - Systems agronomy pathways for crop adaptation to heat stress and terminal droughts
  Daniel Rodriguez (The University of Queensland, Centre for Crop Sciences (QAAFI), Gatton, QLD, Australia)

• O06 - Adapting to heat stresses by sowing summer grain crops in late-winter: Sorghum root growth, water use, and yield
  Dongxue Zhao (The University of Queensland, Gatton, QLD, Australia)

• O07 - Wide row configurations in sorghum reduce crop water use efficiency and yield in marginal rainfall environments in Australia
  Loretta Serafin (Summer Grains, NSW Department of Primary Industries, Calala, NSW, Australia)

• O08 - Effect of soil treatment with Methionine on Striga infection and sorghum growth under field conditions in Ethiopia
  Taye Tessema (NABRC, Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)

Pasteur Auditorium (Level 1)Genetics and genomics of adaptation -1-

Chair: Gael Pressoir

Selected oral presentations

• O09 - The genomics of local adaptation in sorghum landraces
  Aayudh Das (Department of Biology, Pennsylvania State Univeristy, University Park, PA, United States)

• O10 - Integration of sorghum genetics, human genetics, and environmental condition demystified tannin domestication
  Xianran Li (USDA-ARS, Pullman, WA, United States)

• O11 - Understanding sorghum race level diversity and development of sorghum genomic resources by using deep learning-based variant calling approach
  Abhishek Rathore (CIMMYT, Medak, Telangana, India)

• O12 - A brief history of stay-green in sorghum: Has it made a difference?
  Andrew Borrell (Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, The University of Queensland, Warwick, QLD, Australia)

Rondelet Room (Level 2)Developing new products for human consumption -1-

Chair: Rewati Raman Bhattaraji

Selected oral presentations

• O13 - Nutritional characterization and technological aptitude of twenty-nine ICRISAT Sorghum varieties in Burkina Faso
  Fatoumata Ba-Hama (Département technologie Alimentaire, IRSAT, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso)

• O14 - Innovative food-to-food fortified sorghum flours to improve nutrition in rural West Africa
  Moustapha Moussa (Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique du Niger (INRAN), Niamey, Niger)

• O15 - Developing and marketing sorghum baked products: Acceptance of novel biscuits as influenced by sensory characteristics and information
  Pulane Nkhabutlane (Consumer Science, National University of Lesotho, Lesotho, Roma, Lesotho)

• O16 - Supplementary Feeding on Soy-fortified cereal porridge improves the Nutritional Status of Pre-school Children aged 4-5 Yea
  Beatrice Were (Biological, University of Eldoret, Eldoret, Kenya)

Antigone 1, 2 & 3 areas (Level 2)Coffee break - Visit of exhibition - Posters

Parallel Sessions 2

Barthez Room (Level 2)Physiology and Phenotyping tools to support breeding -2-

Chair: Alemu Tirefessa

Selected oral presentations

• O17 - 3D Computer Vision for High-throughput Phenotyping
  Jan Masner (Department of Information Technologies, Czech University of Life Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic)

• O18 - Evaluating variation in stem strength in response to artificial drought stress amongst sorghum genotypes
  Geetika Geetika (The University of Queensland, Warwick, Queensland, Australia)

• O19 - Quantifying effects of high temperature stress on seed set of sorghum
  Erik Van Oosterom (QAAFI (Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation), The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, Australia)

• O20 - Deep learning pipeline for phenotyping sorghum panicles
  Chrisbin James (School of Agriculture and Food Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia)

Sully 1 Room (Level 1)Open-Press conference

Pasteur Auditorium (Level 1)Highlighting sorghum diversity as a key to develop sustainable production systems

Chair: Somashekhar M. Punnuri

Selected oral presentations

• O21 - Sorghum wild relatives: The forgotten treasure-trove for unlocking the hidden hunger crises in Sudan
  Tilal Abdelhalim (Biotechnology and Biosafety Research Center, Agricultural Research Corporation (ARC), Khartoum North, Sudan)

• O22 - Crop diversity and West African farmers: agroecological perspectives
  Christian Leclerc (UMR AGAP Institut, CIRAD, Montpellier, France)

• O23 - Investigations on pollen-mediated gene flow between grain sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) and johnsongrass (Sorghum halepense)
  Muthukumar Bagavathiannan (Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States)

• O24 - Sorghum diversity for sustainable cropping systems in marginal environments in the deep south of Madagascar
  Kirsten Von Brocke (AGAP, CIRAD, Montpellier, France)

Rondelet Room (Level 2)Optimizing breeding programs to maximize genetic gains -1-

Chair: Mitch Tuinstra

Selected oral presentations

• O25 - Effect of retraining on genomic prediction accuracy in sorghum
  Jean-Rigaud Charles (CHIBAS, Faculté des Sciences de l'Agriculture et de l'Environnement, Universite Quisquey, Port au Prince, Haiti)

• O26 - Genetic gain from a rapid cycling genomic selection program for non photoperiodic dual use sorghum
  Gael Pressoir (CHIBAS, Université Quisqueya, Port-au-Prince, Haiti)

• O27 - Improving rate of genetic gain through optimised breeding cycles
  Abhishek Rathore (CIMMYT, Hyderabad, Telangana, India)

Antigone 1, 2 & 3 areas (Level 2)Poster Session 1 (odd-numbered posters)

Plenary Session

Pasteur Auditorium (Level 1)Three-Minute Thesis Competition (3MT) -1-

Chair: TBC

Selected thesis presentations

Antigone 1, 2 & 3 areas (Level 2)Welcome cocktail