Thursday 6 June
Lecture 2
09:00-10:00
Can agrobiodiversity be a lever for ecological, nutritional and social change?
Evidence from Malawi and Tanzania
Rachel Bezner Kerr (Cornell University, USA)
Session 3 - Mobilizing genetic resources (continued)
Chairs: Michelle Tixier Boichard and Henry Robert
10:00-11:00
Oral presentations S3
- Filling the gap on varietal diversity for an agrobiodiversity Index – a case study from India
Mohammad Ehsan Dulloo (Bioversity International, Rose-Hill, Mauritius) - Hidden Rice Diversity in the Guianas
Margret Veltman (Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Norway) - Genomic landscape of the introgression from maize modern varieties (Zea mays L.) into native landraces and wild relatives at the center of origin of maize
Idalia Claudia Rojas-Barrera (Departamento de Ecología Evolutiva, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México, Coyoacán, Ciudad de México, Mexicoo)
11:00-11:30
Espace Philippe LamourCoffee break
11:30-13:00
Oral presentations S3
- Wild genetic resources for biocontrol-friendly resistance to herbivores in strawberry
Johan Stenberg (Department of Plant Protection Biology, Swedish University of Agricultural Scien, Alnarp, Sweden) - A new method for estimating mixing ability: application to winter wheat variety mixtures and propositions for plant breeding
Emma Forst (Quantitative Genetics and Evolution, INRA (Le Moulon), Gif-sur-Yvette, France) - From landrace diversity to modern wheat breeding – pedigree and MAGIC population resources to mobilise genetic diversity for genomics informed breeding
Nick Fradgley (NIAB, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom) - Genome-wide SNP genotyping of DNA pools identifies original landraces to enrich maize breeding pools
Stéphane Nicolas (GQE-Le Moulon, INRA, Gif-Sur-Yvette, France)
13:00-14:30
Lunch
Excursions
14:30