The China - EU Workshop on Phenotypic Profiling and Technology Transfer on Crop Breeding,

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1 The China - EU Workshop on Phenotypic Profiling and Technology Transfer on Crop Breeding, September 2012, Barcelona, Spain (Second Announcement - Provisional Program) Objectives China and EU are dedicating great R&D efforts in agriculture, food security and food safety. They both face common challenges, such as the growing demand for safe, nutritive and affordable food given the constraints of land, water, energy and in face of the environmental limits (e.g. soil erosion, and combined effects of climate change impacts and biodiversity loss). The only viable approach to increasing food production is to raise the productivity of existing farmland. The greatest challenge is to increase food production and improve product quality in an environmentally sustainable manner. Crop management and breeding are the pillars of an effort to tackle the present and future challenges on food production. The need to accelerate plant breeding for increased yield potential and better adaptation to drought and other abiotic stresses is an issue of increasing urgency at the World level. However genetic advance on yield potential and adaptation to major abiotic stresses is constrained in spite the huge advance in the last years on technologies directly related with crop molecular breeding. Phenotyping remains as a bottle neck for future increased plant breeding efforts; particularly when field evaluation is mandatory. That means both high throughput phenotyping technologies, field characterization of experimental sites for environmental variability. Bioinformatic technologies is another key area since it allows to study G x E interactions, translate phenotyping information into a selection indices and establish links between genomic information and phenotype data. As for the genomic techniques during the last two decades now increasing interest is rising at both public and private sector engaged in crop breeding on the importance of phenotyping very sophisticate albeit expensive state-of-the art approaches on plant phenotyping are emerging (e.g. high- throughput phenotyping platforms). This may represent a constraint for the practical adoption of new technologies by the small companies and NARS. However beside all the glamour related with the adoption of new technologies, breeders experience and common sense may do phenotyping far simpler, cheaper albeit efficient than expected. The EU-China partnership initiative in crop breeding (OPTICHINA) was launched on June, 2011 as a new instrument that may serve as model to reinforce a systematic co-operation on Agricultural Research between Europe and China. Further information on the Coordinated Action OPTICHINA at its activities and workshops can be found at International Organizing Committee Jose Luis Araus, Department of Plant Biology, University of Barcelona Martin Parry, Professor, Plant Science Department, Rothamsted Research, Alisdair Fernie, Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology Gustavo Slafer, Crop and Forest Sciences, University of Lleida Simon Griffiths, Professor, Department of Crop Genetics, John Innes Centre

2 Xifeng Gong, Deputy Director General, Department of International Cooperation, CAAS Jiankang Wang, Professor, Institute of Crop Science, CAAS Jiansheng Li, Professor and Director, National Maize Improvement Center, Chinese Agricultural University Jianbing Yan, Professor, National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, HZAU Hu Yin-Gang, College of Agronomy, Northwest A & F University Fan Xingming, Institute of Food Crops, Yunnan Academy of Agricultural Sciences Tianmin Shen, Henan Tianmin Seed Company. Local Organizing Committee Jordi Bort, Department of Plant Biology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain Dolors Serret, Department of Plant Biology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Roxana Savin, Crop and Forest Sciences, University of Lleida, Gustavo A. Slafer, Crop and Forest Sciences, University of Lleida, Jose Luis Araus, Department of Plant Biology, University of Barcelona Advanced Online Registration Online registration will be available since the last week of January The electronic form will offer the possibility to provide a presentation, either oral or poster. Registration will be FREE if completed before April 30th 2012, including attendance to the sessions and coffee-breaks. Registrations completed after this date will be charged with 100, and the proceeds devoted to the Gala Dinner and to the Field Visit. A few number of grants to cover travel and accommodation costs will be issued for Spanish and for Chinese researchers willing to offer a presentation (oral or poster). A 5- page CV will be requested for each application for a grant. Publications Selected presentations will be published in special issues of Journal of Integrative Plant Biology (Chinese Academy of Sciences) and Food and Energy Security Journal (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.). Location of Opening Ceremony and Workshop Conference Hall Aula Magna, Main Floor, Faculty of Biology, University of Barcelona (Avda. Diagonal 643, Barcelona, Spain) Program (provisional) MONDAY, 17th SEPTEMBER 2012, morning Check-in Open ceremony Session I: Phenotyping: a boost for conventional and genomic selection Understanding of GxE interactions Combining phenotypic and genetic information Phenotypic traits and tools and their constraints MONDAY, 17th SEPTEMBER 2012, afternoon

3 Session II: Technologies to characterize whole-plant performance Remote sensing approaches Screening by imaging, hardware and software developments Novel field techniques and aerial platforms Geographical information systems Poster Session I TUESDAY, 18th SEPTEMBER 2012, morning Session III: Phenotyping implementation in practice High-throughput phenotyping platforms: Pot versus field platforms: pros and conts Field phenotyping and spatial variability Setting the growing conditions The seed-companies and public sector experience Session IV: Metabolic profiling Methodologies: capabilities and constraints Dynamic approaches: Fluxomics a dynamic approach Integration of field phenotyping and metabolic profiling TUESDAY, 18th SEPTEMBER 2012, afternoon Session V: Modelling Modelling as a tool to define target environment constraints Modelling for ideotype identification The empirical approach: Selection Indices Poster Session II WEDNESDAY, 19th SEPTEMBER 2012, morning Session VI: Bridging phenotypic and genotypic information Is data management a bottleneck for breeding? Tools for phenotyping and molecular data analysis Beyond QTL identification: Genomic selection Poster Session III WEDNESDAY, 19th SEPTEMBER 2012, afternoon

4 Session VII: Accelerating the transfer of plant breeding technologies Constraints to breeding technology transfer and adoption Common technical facilities and outsourcing: case studies Training strategies for breeding: holistic versus specialized Conclusions, recommendations and farewell ceremony THURSDAY, 20 SEPTEMBER 2012, whole day Field visit: Maize trials and Applied Plant Biotechnology Laboratory on maize and rice (at University of Lleida) plus cultural visit (full day) FRIDAY, 21 SEPTEMBER 2012, morning First annual meeting of OPTICHINA (restricted to the Steering Committee and other members of OPTICHINA). Confirmed Invited Lectures and Oral Presentations Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change Elias Fereres (IAS-CSIC and University of Cordoba, Spain) Detailed dissection of phenotype for bread wheat QTL controlling height and flowering Simon Griffiths (John Innes Centre, UK). Crop Phenotyping: traits and tools Jose Luis Araus (University of Barcelona, Spain) Phenotyping root system architecture traits and resource capture John Foulkes (University of Nottingham, UK) High-Throughput Phenotyping: A Boost For Genomics In The 21st Century Joerg Vandenhirtz (LemnaTec, Germany). Genome wide association study in maize Jianbing Yang (Huazhong Agricultural University Wuhan, China) A Suite Of Non-Invasive Imaging Methods Enable The Quantitative Evaluation Of Key Phenotypic Parameters Of Plants And Canopies: Case Studies Using Selected Crop Germplasm Fabio Fiorani (Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH, Germany). Inter and Intraspecific High-Throughput Evaluation of Complex Traits in the Phenoarch Phenotyping Platform Llorenç Cabrera (UMR INRA-SUPAGRO, France). Genetic variability in the interception of light and the extinction coefficient in bread wheat Candido López Castañeda (Colegio de Postgraduados en Ciencias Agricolas Mexico) Metabolite profiling of crops under low water regimes

5 Alisdair Fernie (Max Planck Institute-MPP, Germany) Plant and agroforestry proteomics Jesus V. Jorrin Novo (Universidad de Córdoba, Spain). Modelling of plant breeding with applications in wheat and maize Jiankang Wang (Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China). Characterization of low-molecular-weight glutenin subunits Glu-A3 and Glu-B3 genes and development of functional markers in common wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) Xianchun Xia (Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China). Dissecting yield into its physiological and molecular components in spring wheat Marta Lopes de Silva (CIMMYT, Mexico). Utilization of Novel Dwarfing Genes to Improve Yield Potential and Stress Tolerance in Wheat Hu Ying Gang (Northwest A&F University, China) Field phenotyping of diverse wheat genotypes Martin Parry (Rothamsted Research, UK) Identification and Screening of Resources Resistant to Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) in Winter Wheat Region of Northern China Jianping Zhang (Henan Tianmin Seed Co. Ltd, China) Experience in Australia and NW China of developing and applying phenotyping to wheat yield improvement Tony Condon (CSIRO, Australia) Fruiting efficiency: a trait to complement spike growth to further rise wheat yield potential Gustavo Slafer (University of Lleida, Spain) Can nitrogen management affect the magnitude of high-temperature stress on grain crops? Roxana Savin (University of Lleida, Spain), Association genetics in barley Ernesto Igartua (Estación Experimental de Aula Dei-CSIC, Zaragoza, Spain) Improving the crops water use efficiency: From Ecophysiology to Biotechnology and backwards. Hipólito Medrano (Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain)

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