Schedule


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DAY 1 - 06. FEBRUARY 2025

TIMETOPIC
11:00Pre-Conference Event
12:00Registration
13:00Welcome - Patrick Thorwarth
Session 1 Chair: Patrick Thorwarth
13:10Friedrich Longin - Future supply chains need to integrate nutrients - what does that mean for breeding
13:50Khaoula El Hassouni - Multi-omics analysis for wheat improvement across the supply chain
14:10Kim Steige - GWAS of 2,600 proteins in bread wheat
14:30Thomas Miedaner - Breeding for fungal disease resistances in small-grain cereals
14:50Coffee Break & Poster Session
Session 2 Chair: Tobias Schrag
15:50Karl Schmid - Advancing Quinoa Breeding: Leveraging Genetic Diversity for Improved Cultivation and Value Chain Integration in Central Europe
16:10

Anurag Daware - From Historical Data to Modern Efficiency: The Evolution of DUS Testing in Maize

16:30Andres Gordillo - Hybrid rye breeding goals to address new demands of agriculture and the value chain.
16:50Friedrich Laidig - Is nitrogen use efficency neglected in registration trials?
17:10Christian Flachenecker - Innovations in Rapesee Breedig: Oil and Protein for Sustainable Suply Chains
17:50Closing Words Day 1 - Tobias Schrag
18:00End Day 1
19:00Symposium Dinner

DAY 2 - 07. FEBRUARY 2025

TIMETOPIC
08:30Welcome - Hans Peter Maurer
Session 1 Chair: Hans Peter Maurer
08:35Bettina Müller - New breeding concepts with big data within the sugar beet breeding
09:15Muhammad Afzal - Utilization of Machine Learning for Optimal Prediction of Wheat Quality
09:35Vincent Braun - Evaluation of deviation-type indices in soybean breeding
09:55Peter Risser - Südzucker Group - Get the Power of Plants - Challenges from Crop Production to Plant Based Solutions
10:35Coffee Break & Poster Session
Session 2 Chair: Volker Hahn
11:15

Hans Peter Piepho - Factor-analytic variance-covariance structures for prediction into a target population of Environments

11:35Carina Meyenberg - Genomics based prebreeding
11:55Mario Jekle - Plant quality in the future: A science perspective
12:35Closing Words Day 2 - Volker Hahn
12:40

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