PROGRAM:
THURSDAY DECEMBER 16TH
SESSION 1:
PHYSIOLOGY AND IMPROVEMENT OF CEREALS FOR SUSTAINABLE INTENSIFICATION.
Moderators: Juan B. Arellano (juan.arellano@irnasa.csic.es) and Rubén Vicente (ruben.vicente@itqb.unl.pt) 

9:45-10:15

Invited talk:
Dr. Luigi Cattivelli, CREA. (Italy).     
Allelic variants in loci controlling barley adaptation to environment. ​     
10:15-10:30
Questions
10:30-11:00

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​11:00-11:15

11:15-11:30

11:30-11-45

11:45-12:00

12:00-12.15
Coffe break
Oral Communications
  • Genomic prediction and training set optimization in a structured Mediterranean oat population. Dr. Luis M. Gallego Sánchez. IAS-Córdoba.
  • Selection of new triticale cultivars from Agrovegetal-CIMMYT adapted to farmers and livestock industry needs in Spain. Dr. Ignacio Solís Martel. Agrovegetal. 
  • Grain number and average grain weight response to heat waves and source-sink ratio in field grown contrasting wheat genotypes. Dr. Kin Jinwook. University of Lleida.
  • Capitalization of Mediterranean maize germplasm for improving stress tolerance. Dr. Pedro Revilla. Misión Biológica de Galicia.
  • Evolution of the awns since crop domestication. Dr. Rut Sanchez Bragado. University of Barcelona.
12:20-12:50
        Carrousel of two minutes poster presentation
12:50-13:00
            Open Discussion
SESSION 2.
BIOTIC STRESSES
Moderators: Javier  Sánchez (javier.sanchezmartin@botinst.uzh.ch) and Fernando Martínez (fernan@us.es).
 

13:00-13:30
Invited talk
Dr. Alejandro Pérez de Luque, IFAPA (Spain).
Under pressure: breeding for resistance against pathogens.​
13:30-14:00
14:00- 15:30
Open discussion
Lunch


15:30-15:45


15:45-16:00


​16:00-16:15

​16:15-16:30
Oral Communications​​

  • Partial resistance to leaf rust in the Spanish bread wheat core collection of CRF. Dr. Fernando Martínez Moreno. Universidad de Sevilla.
  • Developing sustainable control strategies to protect wheat roots from take-all disease. Dr. Javier Palma-Guerrero. Dept Biointeractions and Crop Protection Department, Rothamsted Research.
  • Host evasion in the wheat pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici. Dr. Andrea Sánchez-Vallet. Centro de Biotecnología y Genómica de Plantas (CBGP, UPM/CSIC-INIA). 
  • Identification of specificity-defining amino acids of the wheat immune receptor Pm2 and powdery mildew effector AvrPm2. Javier Sánchez-Martín. Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Zurich (UZH).
16:30-17:30                                     Coffe break     
17:30-18:00
Open Discussion
18:00- 18:30                                    Poster viewing/discussing    (Sessions 1 and 2)
20:00-21:15
   Touristic Walk
SIMPOSUIM DINNER
FRIDAY DECEMBER 17TH
 SESSION 3.
NEW TECHNOLOGICAL TOOLS.
Moderators: Iker Aranjuelo (iker.aranjuelo@csic.es) and José L. Araus (jaraus@ub.edu)
09:00-09:30
Invited talk:
Professor Pablo J. Zarco Tejada.
Hyperspectral and thermal remote sensing for crop stress detection: 25 years of technical and methodological advances
09:30-09:45
Questions


09:45-10:00

10:00-10:15

10:15-10:30

10:30-10:45

10:45-11:00
Oral Communications

  • Key physiological and ecological aspects of wheat adaptation to climate change scenarios in the Iberian Peninsula, a spatial approach. Joel Segarra. University of Barcelona.
  • In-field phenotyping characterization of durum wheat genotypes using chlorophyll fluorescence readings. Adrián Gracia-Romero. University of Barcelona. 
  • Effects of nitrogen supply, genotypic variability and organ-specific metabolism on grain quality in field-grown durum wheat. Rubén Vicente. Universidade Nova de Lisboa.
  • d18O and d2H isotope labelling as a tracking method to assess evaporative and photosynthetic wheat performance. Fatima Z. Rezzouk. University of Barcelona.
  • Preharvest phenotypic prediction of grain quality and yield of durum wheat with multispectral imaging. Thomas Vatter. University of Bacelona.
11:00-11:15
Open Discussion
11:15-11:45 
Coffee Break
SESSION 4.
GRAIN QUALITY.
Moderators: Roxana Savín (roxana.savin@udl.cat) and Laura Pascual (laura.pascual@upm.es)
11:45-12:15
Invited talk:
Dr. Carlos Guzmán García.
Wheat Quality for improving processing and human health
12:15-12:30
                       Questions

12:30-12:45

12:45-13:00

13:00-13:15

​13:15-13:30
                Oral Communications​
  • Grain quality traits in winter wheat released between 1965 and 2019. Ana M. Mendez-Espinoza. INIA y Univ. Talca, Chile. 
  • Diversity of puroindolines in Iranian bread wheat landraces. Ana Belén Huertas Garcia. University of Cordoba.
  • Durum wheat (Triticum durum L.) landraces reveal potential for the biofortification of carotenoids esters in grain. María Dolores Requena Ramirez (IAS Cordoba).
  • Grain and flour quality parameters of two bread wheat varieties in contrasting environments of Navarre, Spain. David Soba. IdAB-CSIC.
13:30-13:45
                       Open Discussion
13:45-15:00                                 Lunch
15:00-15:30                                 Carrousel of two minutes poster presentation                                                     
15:30-16:15                                 Poster viewing/discussing (Sessions 3 and 4)
16:15-16:30                                 Conclusions and closing words