Section 1. Genetic Resources and Biodiversity
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| Andreas Boerner (Leibniz-Institut für Pflanzengenetik und Kulturpflanzenforschung (IPK), Gatersleben, Germany) "Plant Genetic Resources for Breeding and Research". |
| Elena Khlestkina (N.I. Vavilov All-Russian Research Institute of Plant Genetic Resources (VIR), Sant Petersburg, Russian Federation) "Plant genetic resources in the context of genetic technologies" |
| Hakan Ozkan (Cukurova University, Adana, Turkey) "A look into Turkey’s Cereal Germplasm Resources: Diversity and Application" |
Section 2. Genetics and Breeding |
| Takao Komatsuda (Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences (SAAS), Jinan, China) "Genetic Features in Plant Domestication". |
| Nicola Pecchioni (Council for Agricultural Research and Economic, Foggia, Italy) "Genomic tools and strategies for durum wheat breeding" |
| Simon Griffiths (John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK) "Genetic strategies to increase the nutritional density of wheat". |
Section 3. Physiology, Biochemistry and Biotechnology |
| Gustavo Slafer (Dept. of Crop and Forest Sciences, University of Lleida, Lleida, Spain) "Further improving spike fertility traits in wheat to keep increasing yield potential" |
| Shun Sakuma (Tottori University, Japan) "The mutant population of wild barley accelerates gene cloning" |
| Cecile Ben (Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow, Russian Federation) "Addressing Quantitative Disease Resistance in Legumes via whole-genome analysis and biotechnology" |
Section 4. Cellular and Genetic Engineering |
| Allah Bakhsh (Center for Excellence in Molecular Biology, Lahore, Pakistan) "The regulatory landscape of genome editing plants with focus on regulatory policies: where we are heading?" |
| Hiroshi Hisano (Institute of Plant Science and Resources, Okayama University, Kurashiki, Japan) "Site-directed genome modification of grain dormancy genes in barley" |
Section 5. Genomics, Proteomics, and Bioinformatics |
| Alan Schulman (Natural Resources Institute Finland, Helsinki, Finland) "A faba bean pan-genome for sustainable protein security" |
| Ruslan Kalendar (Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan) "The role of viruses in evolution". |
| Laurent Gentzbittel (Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow, Russian Federation) "Advancements in Computational Pipelines for Genetic Diversity Analyses and Genomic Predictions: Implications for Legume Crop Research" |
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