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Hilton Garden Inn Paris Massy

35 avenue Carnot, 91300 Massy

https://paris-massy.naoshotel.com

+33 1 87 59 00 20

From Massy

At bus stop “Gare de Massy-Palaiseau”

Take one of the following buses:

- Bus 91.06 (Christ de Saclay)

- Bus 91.10 (Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines)

Stop at « Palaiseau – Campus »

From Paris

Take the RER B (Saint-Rémy-les-Chevreuse), Stop at « Le Guichet »

Then take the Bus 9 (Christ de Saclay)

Stop at « Palaiseau – Campus »

9:00 Introduction   Nicolas Guilpart, AgroParisTech – Carbon fluxes, Agriculture & Breeding

SESSION 1. New biotic targeted traits   9h30 - 11h30

Chair: Frank Hochholdinger - Univ. Bonn

Ana Butron, CSIC Spain – Resistance to Fusarium Ear Rot in a MAGIC Population

Judith Legrand, Univ. Paris-Saclay – Synchronisation of life cycles between plants and herbivores

Thomas Miedaner, Univ. Hohenheim – Employing subtropical donors to boost resistance to Gibberella ear rot and Northern corn leaf blight in European maize

Daniela Scheuermann, KWS – Breeding for NCLB resistance using HT genes

SESSION 2. New abiotic targeted traits    11h30 - 13h // 14h - 15h

Chair: Albrecht Melchinger - Pr. im Ruhestand             

Christophe Maurel, CNRS – The HyArchi project: Maize Root Hydraulic Architecture and its response to drought

Fabian Guffanti, TU München – Unravelling the genetic architecture of lateral root length in maize

Frank Hochholdinger, Univ. Bonn – Tissue and cell type-specific transcriptomic plasticity and phenotypic adaptations of maize primary roots to cold stress

//  Lunch + German Plant Breeding - section maize – Elections  //

Catherine Giauffret, INRAE – Maize tolerance to chiling

Matthieu Reymond, INRAE – Biomass quality and interactions with drought

Sandra Roller, Universität Hohenheim – Improving phosphor-use efficiency in maize

SESSION 3. New diversity for maize breeding     15h - 17h  

Chair: Alain Charcosset - INRAE             

Chris Schön, TU München – Genomic approaches for use of landraces to broaden the genetic variation of maize breeding germplasm

Claude Welcker, INRAE – Analysis of past genetic gain

Sebastian Urzinger, TU München – Identification of genetic factors influencing early development and cold tolerance in maize landraces

Sanchez Dimitri, INRAE /LIDEA – New tools for RG selection and management of genetic diversity

Randy Wisser, INRAE – Using Subtropical maize germplasm to face climate change          

//    VISITS of the Grenhouses, nurseries and labs of GQE Le Moulon 

       APERITIF & DINER in Le Moulon (IDEEV building)    //        

Wednesday 24th  May (9:00 – 12:30 am)

SESSION 4. Statistical methods and modeling for breeding schemes   9h - 12h30

Chair: Chris Schön - TUM    

François Tardieu, INRAE – Modeling adaptative traits

Fabienne Henriot, Limagrain – Interactions GxE and Envirotyping

Susanne Groh, Corteva Agriscience – Using reference set of hybrids for pattern analysis.

Renaud Rincent, INRAE – Phenomic selection - NIRS                      

Willem S. Molenaar, Van Waveren – Novel approaches to increase the chromosome doubling rate in doubled haploid maize production

Alexis Comar, Hyphen – Use of drones in maize experimentations

Tristan Mary-Huard, INRAE – Fast mixed model - applications to genetics

Concluding remarks. A.Melchinger & J.Fievet