Workshop / Time

W1: Abiotic stress tolerance in cereals

(Venue: Hall MRG02) Workshop Co-organizers:

Roberto Tuberosa, University of Bologna, Italy & Vilas Tonapi, IIMR, India

W2: Abiotic stress tolerance in legumes

(Venue: Hall MRG03) Workshop Co-organizers:

Henry Nguyen, University of Missouri, USA & NP Singh, ICAR- IIPR, India

W3: Tolerance to Heat Stress for Crop Improvement (Venue: Hall MRG04)

Workshop Co-organizers: PK Gupta, CCS University, India & HS Balyan, CCS University, India & Kulvinder Gill, WSU, USA

W4: Genetic Engineering for Abiotic Stress

(Venue: Hall MRG05) Workshop Co-organizers:

Anil Grover, UDSC, India & Ashwani Pareek, JNU, India

W5: GWAS and GS for Crop Improvement

(Venue: Hall MRG06) Workshop Co-organizer:

Jose Crossa, CIMMYT, Mexico & Hari D Upadhyaya, ICRISAT, India

W6: Drought Stress and Aflatoxin Contamination in

crops (Venue: Hall MRG1.05)

Workshop Co-organizers: Baozhu Guo, USDA-ARS, USA & C Corley Holbrook, USDA-ARS, USA & Manish Pandey, ICRISAT, India

W7: IPPN workshop on precision phenotyping for improved stress tolerance

(Venue: Hall MRG1.06) Workshop Co-organizers:

Roland Pieruschka, IBG-2, Germany & Pervez Haider Zaidi, CIMMYT, India

1015 – 1030 Setting the scene - Organizers Setting the scene - Organizers Setting the scene - Organizers Setting the scene - Organizers Setting the scene - Organizers Setting the scene - Organizers Setting the scene - Organizers

1030 – 1100 Relating root phenotyping and genetic diversity to drought avoidance in rice Adam Price, University of Aberdeen, UK

Genetic regulation of root system architecture and plasticity in grain legumes Henry Nguyen, University of Missouri, USA

Heat Stress: Perception, response and resilience in crop plants PV Vara Prasad, Kansas State University, USA

Application of genetic engineering to produce stress tolerant rice plants Anil Grover, University of Delhi-South Campus, India

Genomic-enabled prediction using kernel models with genotype × environment interaction Jose Crossa, CIMMYT, Mexico

Deciphering drought-induced response patterns at the biochemical and molecular level in maize related to aflatoxin contamination resistance Baozhu Guo, USDA-ARS, USA

Field-based phenotyping for drought tolerance in maize – focus on breeder’s wish-list Pervez Haider Zaidi, CIMMYT, India

1100 – 1130 Pyramiding major QTLs for increased rice yield under drought: recent approaches and successes Arvind Kumar, IRRI, Philippines

Development of efficient drought escaping plant types of pulses through conserving micro-environmental moisture PS Basu, ICAR-IIPR, India

Developing climate resilient wheat Kulvinder Gill, Washington State University, USA

Two-component signaling (TCS) system in development and abiotic stress response in rice Ashwani Pareek, JNU, India

Integrating statistical and crop growth modelling approaches to facilitate breeding for water-limited environments Fred Van Eeuwijk, WUR, Netherlands

Breeding peanut with drought tolerance and reduced aflatoxin contamination C Corley Holbrook, USDA-ARS, USA

Yield maintenance under drought: expansive growth and hydraulics also matter in reproductive organs Francois Tardieu, INRA, France

1130 – 1200 Rapid genetic gains achieved by developing and deploying multiple abiotic and biotic stress tolerant rice varieties in Asia and Africa Jauhar Ali, IRRI, Philippines

Breeding common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) for multi-stressed environments Clare Mukankusi, CIAT, Uganda

Breeding for heat tolerance in wheat, where we are? AK Joshi, BISA, India

Ensuring the food bowl for Masses: Raising crops for saline and dry areas Sneh Singla-Pareek, ICGEB, India

A simpler method for GWAS and the use of significant markers in genome selection Juan Andres Burgueño, CIMMYT, Mexico

Aflatoxin permissive transcriptional states in peanut seeds Peggy Ozias-Akins, University of Georgia, USA

Transpiration Efficiency: Further insights from species, sink strength, and soil comparisons & LeasyScan: 3D scanning of crop canopy plus seamless monitoring of water use to harness the genetics of key traits for drought adaptation

Vincent Vadez, ICRISAT, India

1200 – 1230 Genetic dissection of root traits at jointing and grain filling stages in wheat Ruilian Jing, CAAS, China

Hybrid Pigeonpea: Best Bet for maximizing productivity in dry lands CV Sameer Kumar, ICRISAT, India

How rising temperatures would be detrimental for cool and warm-season food legumes? Harsh Nayyar, Panjab University, India

Identification and validation of genes for water use efficiency and grain yield under drought in rice Andy Pereira, University of Arkansas, USA

Genomic selection in hybrid breeding Yusheng Zhao, IPK-Gatersleben, Germany

Drought affects A. flavus and aflatoxin contamination and their association with drought tolerant traits in peanut genotypes Sanun Jogloy, Khon Kaen University, Thailand

Drought acclimation during multiple vegetative growth stages in wheat improves drought tolerance during generative growth: insights from proteomics and physiology Xiao Wang, Nanjing Agricultural University, China

1230 – 1330 Lunch

1330 – 1400 Development of drought tolerant wheat cultivars using wide hybridization, genomics and molecular breeding approaches HS Dhaliwal, Eternal University, India

Retrospect and prospect of improving groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.) for drought-prone areas of India T Radhakrishnan, ICAR-Directorate of Groundnut Research, India

In-sillico characterization of Phosphoglucose isomerase (PGI) gene in Triticum aestivum Rakesh Singh, ICAR- NBPGR, India

Engineering crops for enhanced tolerance to multiple abiotic stresses and improved N use efficiency via manipulating novel-stress associated proteins Om Parkash Dhanker, UMass Amherst, USA

Genomic-enabled prediction model with genotype × environment interaction in elite chickpea lines Manish Roorkiwal, ICRISAT, India

Management of aflatoxin contamination in groundnut by enhancing host-plant resistance Liao Bashou, OCRI-CAAS, China

Precise monitoring of stress response and high throughput phenotyping for stress adaptive traits – Use of stable isotopes and Gravimetric approaches MS Sheshashayee, UAS-Bangalore, India

InterDrought-V Hyderabad International Convention Center (HICC), Hyderabad, India 21-25 February, 2017

Workshops on February 21, 2017

1400 – 1430 A genome-wide approach combining field and platform phenotyping to investigate plant responses to drought and high temperatures Claude Welcker, INRA-LEPSE, France

The first high density genotyping ‘Axiom_Arachis’ 58K SNPs Array for genetic studies and molecular breeding in groundnut Manish Pandey, ICRISAT, India

Mining for heat stress responsive genes by RNA-Seq based comprehensive gene expression analyses in chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) Himabindu Kudapa, ICRISAT, India

Functional diversity of plant stress hormone Abscisic Acid Receptors in rice Viswanathan Chinnusamy, ICAR- IARI, India

Harnessing the genomic diversity of asian cultivated rice (Oryza sativa L.): SNPs, pan genomes and structural variation Zhikang Li, CAAS, China

Drought stress and aflatoxin contamination: Transcriptional responses of Aspergillus flavus to oxidative stress are related to stress tolerance and aflatoxin production capability Jake Fountain, University of Georgia, USA

1430 – 1500 Genetic determinants of drought stress tolerance in Setaria Manoj Prasad, NIPGR, India

Breeding chickpea for water limited environments: Selection indices and strategies Bharadwaj Chellapilla, IARI, India

Towards developing rice genotypes adapted to warming climate M Raveendran, TNAU, India

Drought tolerant Rice: Metabolic engineering and dissecting proteomics in understanding the system Karabi Datta, University of Calcutta, India

Integrative genome-wide association studies (GWAS) to understand complex genetic architecture of quantitative traits in chickpea Swarup Parida, NIPGR, India

Combination of empirical and trait-based approaches for breeding drought tolerance in groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L) Janila Pasupuleti, ICRISAT, India

1500 – 1530 General Discussions General Discussions General Discussions Genetic engineering approaches for drought tolerance in grain legumes: Progress and prospects Pooja Bhatnagar, ICRISAT, India

Understanding the genetics of biomass formation in barley assessed by non-invasive phenotyping Kerstin Neumann, IPK-Gatersleben, Germany

Molecular breeding tools improved drought tolerant groundnut variety for resistance to foliar fungal diseases Rathna Kumar Arulthambi Luke, Directorate of Groundnut Research, India

Panel Discussions on Climate Smart Agriculture Co-Chairs: David Bergvinson & RS Paroda

(Venue: Hall MRG01, HICC, Hyderabad)

1330 - 1630 hrs

David Bergvinson Director General, ICRISAT, India

R S Paroda former Director General, ICAR, India

William D Dar former Director General, ICRISAT, India & President, Inanglupa, Philippines

Swapan Datta former Deputy Director General-Crop Science, ICAR & Vice Chancellor, Shantiniketan, India

Jeff Ehlers Senior Program Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, USA

Usha Barwale Zehr Director-Research, MAHYCO, India

Shadrack Moephuli President and CEO, Agricultural Research Council, South Africa

KHM Siddique, Hackett Professor of Agriculture Chair and Director/Professor, Institute of Agriculture, University of Western Australia, Australia

A K Padhee Director, Country Relations and Business Affairs, ICRISAT, India

Workshop on February 23, 2017 W8: Next Generation Genomics & Molecular Breeding Platforms

(Venue: Hall 5 & 6, HICC, Hyderabad) Time 1530 – 1600 hrs 1600 – 1630 hrs 1630 – 1700 hrs 1700 – 1730 hrs 1730 – 1800 hrs

Co-Organizers: Dave Edwards, University of Western Australia, Australia & Rajeev K Varshney, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), India

The BGISEQ-500 sequencing platform for multiple research applications Xin Liu, BGI Research, China

Using genomics to breed for the future: Sequencing and genotyping platforms Ryan Rapp, Illumina Inc., USA

Delivering higher rates of genetic gain to farmers in drought-prone environments Gary Atlin, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, USA

The assembly, analysis and application of pangenomes Dave Edwards, University of Western Australia, Australia

Genotyping by Sequencing: Which application is right for me? Jacqueline Batley, University of Western Australia, Australia

Workshop W1: Abiotic stress tolerance in cereals (Venue: Hall MRG02)

February 21, 2017

Technical Program

Workshop Co-organizers: Roberto Tuberosa, University of Bologna, Italy & Vilas Tonapi, IIMR, India

1015 – 1030 Setting the scene Organizers

1030 – 1100 Relating root phenotyping and genetic diversity to drought avoidance in rice

Adam Price University of Aberdeen UK

1100 – 1130 Pyramiding major QTLs for increased rice yield under drought: recent approaches and successes

Arvind Kumar IRRI Philippines

1130 – 1200 Rapid genetic gains achieved by developing and deploying multiple abiotic and biotic stress tolerant rice varieties in Asia and Africa

Jauhar Ali IRRI Philippines

1200 – 1230 Genetic dissection of root traits at jointing and grain filling stages in wheat

Ruilian Jing CAAS China

1230 – 1330 Lunch

1330 – 1400 Development of drought tolerant wheat cultivars using wide hybridization, genomics and molecular breeding approaches

HS Dhaliwal Eternal University India

1400 – 1430 A genome-wide approach combining field and platform phenotyping to investigate plant responses to drought and high temperatures

Claude Welcker INRA-LEPSE France

1430 – 1500 Genetic determinants of drought stress tolerance in Setaria

Manoj Prasad NIPGR India

1500 – 1530 General Discussions

InterDrought-V Hyderabad International Convention Center (HICC)

Hyderabad, India

21-25 February, 2017

Workshop W2: Abiotic stress tolerance in legumes (Venue: Hall MRG03)

February 21, 2017

Technical Program

Workshop Co-organizers: Henry Nguyen, University of Missouri, USA & NP Singh, ICAR- IIPR, India

1015 – 1030 Setting the scene Organizers

1030 – 1100 Genetic regulation of root system architecture and plasticity in grain legumes

Henry Nguyen University of Missouri USA

1100 – 1130 Development of efficient drought escaping plant types of pulses through conserving micro-environmental moisture

PS Basu ICAR-IIPR India

1130 – 1200 Breeding common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) for multi-stressed environments

Clare Mukankusi CIAT Uganda

1200 – 1230 Hybrid Pigeonpea: Best Bet for maximizing productivity in dry lands

CV Sameer Kumar ICRISAT India

1230 – 1330 Lunch

1330 – 1400 Retrospect and prospect of improving groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.) for drought-prone areas of India

T Radhakrishnan ICAR-DGR India

1400 – 1430 The first high density genotyping ‘Axiom_Arachis’ 58K SNPs array for genetic studies and molecular breeding in groundnut

Manish Pandey ICRISAT India

1430 – 1500 Breeding chickpea for water limited environments: Selection indices and strategies

Bharadwaj Chellapilla IARI India

1500 – 1530 General Discussions

InterDrought-V Hyderabad International Convention Center (HICC)

Hyderabad, India

21-25 February, 2017

W3: Tolerance to Heat Stress for Crop Improvement (Venue: Hall MRG04)

February 21, 2017

Technical Program

Workshop Co-organizers: PK Gupta, CCS University, India HS Balyan, CCS University, India & Kulvinder Gill, WSU, USA

1015 – 1030 Setting the scene Organizers

1030 – 1100 Heat Stress: Perception, response and resilience in crop plants

PV Vara Prasad Kansas State University USA

1100 – 1130 Developing climate resilient wheat

Kulvinder Gill Washington State University USA

1130 – 1200 Breeding for heat tolerance in wheat, where we are?

AK Joshi BISA India

1200 – 1230 How rising temperatures would be detrimental for cool and warm-season food legumes?

Harsh Nayyar Panjab University India

1230 – 1330 Lunch

1330 – 1400 In-sillico characterization of Phosphoglucose isomerase (PGI) gene in Triticum aestivum

Rakesh Singh ICAR- NBPGR India

1400 – 1430 Mining for heat stress responsive genes by RNA-Seq based comprehensive gene expression analyses in chickpea (cicer arietinum L.)

Himabindu Kudapa ICRISAT India

1430 – 1500 Towards developing rice genotypes adapted to warming climate

M Raveendran TNAU India

1500 – 1530 General Discussions

InterDrought-V Hyderabad International Convention Center (HICC)

Hyderabad, India

21-25 February, 2017

W4: Genetic Engineering for Abiotic Stress (Venue: Hall MRG05)

February 21, 2017

Technical Program

Workshop Co-organizers: Anil Grover, UDSC, India & Ashwani Pareek, JNU, India

1015 – 1030 Setting the scene- Organizers

1030 – 1100 Application of genetic engineering to produce stress tolerant rice plants

Anil Grover UDSC India

1100 – 1130 Two-component signaling (TCS) system in development and abiotic stress response in rice

Ashwani Pareek JNU India

1130 – 1200 Ensuring the food bowl for masses: Raising crops for saline and dry areas

Sneh Singla-Pareek ICGEB India

1200 – 1230 Identification and validation of genes for water use efficiency and grain yield under drought in rice

Andy Pereira University of Arkansas USA

1230 – 1330 Lunch

1330 – 1400 Engineering crops for enhanced tolerance to multiple abiotic stresses and improved N use efficiency via manipulating novel-stress associated proteins

Om Parkash Dhanker UMass Amherst USA

1400 – 1430 Functional diversity of plant stress hormone Abscisic Acid Receptors in rice

Viswanathan Chinnusamy ICAR-IARI India

1430 – 1500 Drought tolerant Rice: Metabolic engineering and dissecting proteomics in understanding the system

Karabi Datta University of Calcutta India

1500 – 1530 Genetic engineering approaches for drought tolerance in grain legumes: Progress and prospects

Pooja Bhatnagar ICRISAT India

InterDrought-V Hyderabad International Convention Center (HICC)

Hyderabad, India

21-25 February, 2017

W5: GWAS and GS for Crop Improvement (Venue: Hall MRG06)

February 21, 2017

Technical Program

Workshop Co-organizers: Jose Crossa, CIMMYT, Mexico & Hari D Upadhyaya, ICRISAT, India

1015 – 1030 Setting the scene Organizers

1030 – 1100 Genomic-enabled prediction using kernel models with genotype × environment interaction

Jose Crossa CIMMYT Mexico

1100 – 1130 Integrating statistical and crop growth modelling approaches to facilitate breeding for water-limited environments

Fred Van Eeuwijk WUR Netherlands

1130 – 1200 A simpler method for GWAS and the use of significant markers in genome selection

Juan Andres Burgueño CIMMYT Mexico

1200 – 1230 Genomic selection in hybrid breeding Yusheng Zhao IPK-Gatersleben Germany

1230 – 1330 Lunch

1330 – 1400 Genomic-enabled prediction model with genotype × environment interaction in elite chickpea lines

Manish Roorkiwal ICRISAT India

1400 – 1430 Harnessing the genomic diversity of asian cultivated rice (Oryza sativa L.): SNPs, pan genomes and structural variation

Zhikang Li CAAS China

1430 – 1500 Integrative genome-wide association studies (GWAS) to understand complex genetic architecture of quantitative traits in chickpea

Swarup Parida NIPGR India

1500 – 1530 Understanding the genetics of biomass formation in barley assessed by non-invasive phenotyping

Kerstin Neumann IPK-Gatersleben Germany

InterDrought-V Hyderabad International Convention Center (HICC)

Hyderabad, India

21-25 February, 2017

W6: Drought Stress and Aflatoxin Contamination in crops (Venue: Hall MRG1.05)

February 21, 2017

Technical Program

Workshop Co-organizers: Baozhu Guo, USDA-ARS, USA C Corley Holbrook, USDA-ARS, USA & Manish Pandey, ICRISAT, India

1015 – 1030 Setting the scene Organizers

1030 – 1100 Deciphering drought-induced response patterns at the biochemical and molecular level in maize related to aflatoxin contamination resistance

Baozhu Guo USDA-ARS USA

1100 – 1130 Breeding peanut with drought tolerance and reduced aflatoxin contamination

C Corley Holbrook USDA-ARS USA

1130 – 1200 Aflatoxin permissive transcriptional states in peanut seeds

Peggy Ozias-Akins University of Georgia USA

1200 – 1230 Drought affects A. flavus and aflatoxin contamination and their association with drought tolerant traits in peanut genotypes

Sanun Jogloy Khon Kaen University Thailand

1230 – 1330 Lunch

1330 – 1400 Management of aflatoxin contamination in groundnut by enhancing host-plant resistance

Liao Bashou OCRI-CAAS China

1400 – 1430 Drought stress and aflatoxin contamination: Transcriptional responses of Aspergillus flavus to oxidative stress are related to stress tolerance and aflatoxin production capability

Jake Fountain University of Georgia USA

1430 – 1500 Combination of empirical and trait-based approaches for breeding drought tolerance in groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L)

Janila Pasupuleti ICRISAT India

1500 – 1530 Molecular breeding tools improved drought tolerant groundnut variety for resistance to foliar fungal diseases

Rathna Kumar Arulthambi Luke ICAR-DGR India

InterDrought-V Hyderabad International Convention Center (HICC)

Hyderabad, India

21-25 February, 2017

W7: IPPN workshop on precision phenotyping for improved stress

tolerance (Venue: Hall MRG1.06)

February 21, 2017

Technical Program

Workshop Co-organizers: Roland Pieruschka, IBG-2, Germany & Pervez Haider Zaidi, CIMMYT, India

1015 – 1030 Setting the scene Organizers

1030 – 1100 Field-based phenotyping for drought tolerance in maize – focus on breeder’s wish-list

Pervez Haider Zaidi CIMMYT India

1100 – 1130 Yield maintenance under drought: expansive growth and hydraulics also matter in reproductive organs

Francois Tardieu INRA France

1130 – 1200 Transpiration Efficiency: Further insights from species, sink strength, and soil comparisons & LeasyScan: 3D scanning of crop canopy plus seamless monitoring of water use to harness the genetics of key traits for drought adaptation

Vincent Vadez ICRISAT India

1200 – 1230 Drought acclimation during multiple vegetative growth stages in wheat improves drought tolerance during generative growth: insights from proteomics and physiology

Xiao Wang Nanjing Agricultural University China

1230 – 1330 Lunch

1330 – 1400 Precise monitoring of stress response and high throughput phenotyping for stress adaptive traits – Use of stable isotopes and Gravimetric approaches

MS Sheshashayee UAS-Bangalore India

InterDrought-V Hyderabad International Convention Center (HICC)

Hyderabad, India

21-25 February, 2017

W8: Next Generation Genomics & Molecular Breeding Platforms

(Venue: Hall 5 & 6)

February 23, 2017

1530 – 1800 hrs

Technical Program

Workshop Co-organizers: Dave Edwards, UWA, Australia & Rajeev K Varshney, ICRISAT, India

1530 – 1600 The BGISEQ-500 sequencing platform for multiple research applications

Xin Liu BGI Research China

1600 – 1630 Using genomics to breed for the future: sequencing and genotyping platforms

Ryan Rapp Illumina Inc. USA

1630 – 1700 Delivering higher rates of genetic gain to farmers in drought-prone environments

Gary Atlin Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation USA

1700 – 1730 The assembly, analysis and application of pangenomes

Dave Edwards University of Western Australia Australia

1730 – 1800 Genotyping by Sequencing: Which application is right for me?

Jacqueline Batley University of Western Australia Australia

InterDrought-V Hyderabad International Convention Center (HICC)

Hyderabad, India

21-25 February, 2017