| Some 530 scientists from 77 wheat-producing nations gathered for the 8th International Wheat conference (8IWC) from June 1-4, 2010, in the historic city of St. Petersburg, Russia. The IWC is held every five years, the last conference taking place in La Plata, Argentina, in 2005.The famous Vavilov Institute—one of the oldest and most comprehensive collections of germplasm—hosted the conference. “Every major wheat-producing country was represented and there was a strong private sector presence,” said Hans Braun, director, CIMMYT Global Wheat Program. “This really showed that wheat is back on the research agenda.” |
| The Borlaug Global Rust Initiative 2010 Technical Workshop was held just prior to the IWC. 282 leading wheat experts from Australia, Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas gathered for two days in St. Petersburg to address the threat of four new mutations of Ug99 wheat stem rust which are virulent against two important stem rust-resistance genes—SR24 and SR36—used widely in the world’s wheat breeding programs. |
| Presentations from the BGRI Workshop are below |
Please note that only those presentations for whom the authors signed a release are available. For those not available here, please contact the author directly.
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| Also see the wonderful photo slideshow created by Reza Haghparast! |
| May 30 (Day 1 of the BGRI Workshop) |
- Swapan Datta, ICAR: Inheriting Borlaug's Legacy: The Challenges Ahead
- Alexey Morgounov, CIMMYT: Genetic Protection of Wheat from Rusts and Development of Resistant Varieties in Russia and Ukraine
- Natalia Kurkova, All-Russian Research Institute of Phytopathology: The structure, virulence and molecular characterization of Puccinia triticina and Puccinia graminis populations in various regions of Russia in 2001-2008
- Robert F. Park, University of Sydney: International surveillance of wheat rust pathogens -- progress and challenges
- Z.M. Ziyaev, Uzbek Research Institute of Plant Industry: Improving wheat stripe rust resistance in Central Asia and the Caucasus
- Colin Wellings, University of Sydney: Global status of stripe rust
- Julio Huerta-Espina, CIMMYT: Global status of wheat leaf rust caused by Puccinia triticina E.
- ZS Kang, Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University (China): Status of wheat rust research and control in China
- Adrian Newton, Scottish Crops Research Institute: Implications of climate change for diseases, crop yields and food security
- Sukumar Chakraborty, CSIRO: Rust-proofing wheat for a changing climate
- David Hodson, UN-FAO: Shifting Boundaries: Challenges for Rust Monitoring
- Panel discussion: Management of Major Genes and Minor Genes -- The Way Forward
- Panel members: Robert F. Park (Univ of Sydney), Richard Michelmore (Univ of California-Davis), and Ravi Singh (CIMMYT)
- Moderator: Katherine Kahn, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
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| May 31 (Day 2 of the BGRI Workshop) |
- Sophien Kamoun, The Sainsbury Laboratory: Exploiting pathogen effectors in breeding and deployment of disease resistance
- Ralf Voegele, University of Hohenheim: How Sweet is Parasitic Life?: Nutrient Uptake in Rust Fungi
- Christina Cuomo, The Broad Institute: Comparative genomic analysis of rust fungi
- Yue Jin, USDA-ARS: Role of Berberis spp. as alternate hosts in generating new races of Puccinia graminis and P. striiformis
- Zak Pretorius, University of Free State: Characterization of two new wheat stem rust races within the Ug99 lineage in South Africa
- Eija Pehu, World Bank: Who feeds the world 2010 and beyond? Gender equity in agricultural research and development
- Hei Leung, IRRI (on behalf of Mick Ayliffe, CSIRO): Understanding the molecular basis of rice non-host immunity to rust
- Ravi Singh, CIMMYT: Race non-specific resistance to rusts in CIMMYT spring wheats: Breeding advances
- Scot Hulbert, Washington State University: Expression/suppression of haustorial transcripts
- Mark Sorrells, Cornell University: Genomic Selection for Durable Rust Resistance in Wheat
- Panel discussion: Delivering rust resistant wheat to farmers
- Panel members: Mahmood Osmanzai (CIMMYT-Afghanistan), Mostafa Azab (Agricultural Research Center - Egypt), Bedada Girma (Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research), and Peter Njau (Kenya Agricultural Research Institute)
- Moderator: Arun Joshi, CIMMYT-Nepal
- Robert McIntosh, University of Sydney: Closing presentation
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