Monday, February 5th 2018
| 11:30 | Registration & Lunch |
| 13:30 | OPENING SESSION |
 M. Arlt |
| 13:30 | Welcome address by BMBF | A. Noske |
| 13:40 | Welcome address by PTJ | R. Büschges |
| 13:50 | Welcome address by PLANT 2030 Managing Office |
M. Arlt |
| 14:00 | Opening Keynote lecture - New Angles on Root Growth and Development | M. Bennett |
| 15:00 | END OF OPENING SESSION |
| 15:00 | PHOTO SESSION |
| 15:20 | Coffee break & Posters |
| 15:50 | SESSION 1: BIOMASS & YIELD |
 A. Junker |
| 15:50 | Intro |
| 15:55 | SEEDS: Yield enhancement in oilseed rape see abstract | T. Schmülling |
| 16:10 | RaPEQ: Rapeseed as a domestic protein source of excellent quality for human consumption see abstract | C. Dawid |
| 16:25 | Fullthrottle: Maximising Photosynthetic Efficiency in Maize see abstract | U. Schlüter |
| 16:40 | EnCroPho: Enhancing Crop Photosynthesis see abstract |
 J. Falk |
| 16:55 | Cornwall: Improving maize lignocellulosic materials for the bioeconomy see abstract |
 M. Pauly |
| 17:10 | FormatPlant: Engineering an alternative carbon fixation pathway - the reductive glycine pathway, exemplified in E. coli FormatPlant see abstract | O. Yishai |
| 17:25 | MARVEL: Establishment of Yam as a potential crop in Europe see abstract |
 J. Epping |
| 17:40 | BARLEY BIODIVERSITY: Wild barley introgression libraries HEB-25 and S42IL: high-throughput phenotyping in field based on hyperspectral imaging see abstract | M. Schmidt |
| 17:55 | End of SESSION 1 |
| 17:55 | Break |
| 18:00 | PROGRAM BOARD MEETING (Program Board only) |
| 19:00 | End of PROGRAM BOARD MEETING |
| 19:30 | CONFERENCE DINNER & DINNER SPEECH |
| 23:55 | End of DAY 1 |
Tuesday, February 6th 2018
| 09:00 | SESSION 2: DPPN | B. Usadel |
| 09:00 | Trailer and Introduction |
 U. Schurr |
| 09:05 | Technological and methodological achievements so far (and how they are applied): Forschungszentrum Jülich |
U. Schurr |
| 09:30 | Technological and methodological achievements so far (and how they are applied): Overview: DPPN Infrastructures established and used @ IPK Gatersleben | T. Altmann |
| 09:50 | Technological and methodological achievements so far (and how they are applied): Helmholtz Zentrum München: Phenotyping plant-microbe-interactions in model and crop plants | A. Schäffner |
| 10:05 | Technologies and facilities under construction (high throughput facilities): Technologies and high troughput facilities for plant phenotyping at Forschungszentrum Jülich, IBG-2 |
 F. Fiorani |
| 10:15 | Technologies and facilities under construction (high throughput facilities): Overview: Assessment of the dynamics of plant performance in controlled environments and translation to the field at IPK Gatersleben |
A. Junker |
| 10:25 | Technologies and facilities under construction (high throughput facilities): Helmholtz-Zentrum München: An integrated root and shoot high throughput platform for plant-microbe phenotyping | A. Albert |
| 10:35 | Outlook: How to proceed (serving a german, european and global phenotyping community) |
U. Schurr |
| 10:50 | Discussion |
| 11:00 | End of SESSION 2 |
| 11:00 | Coffee break & Posters |
| 11:30 | ELEVATOR PITCH |
 H. Berger |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30 | ELEVATOR PITCH - AWARDS |
H. Berger |
| 13:40 | SESSION 3: SYSTEMS & SOIL |
U. Schurr |
| 13:40 | Intro |
| 13:45 | INSUSFAR: Intraspecific diversity of wheat for increased resilience, high yields and system specific adaptability see abstract |
 T. Siegmeier |
| 14:00 | NOVISYS: PIWIs in a novel viticulture system for sustainable wine production NOVISYS see abstract |
 K. Herzog |
| 14:15 | IMPAC3: Novel genotypes for mixed cropping allow for IMProved sustainable land use ACross arable land, grassland and woodland - Project Overview see abstract | H. Steinmann |
| 14:30 | AWECOS: Assessment of wheat cropping systems from an economic, ecological and the society's perspective – the case of plant disease resistance breeding see abstract |
 H. Deising |
| 14:45 | End of SESSION 3 |
| 14:45 | SESSION 4: STRESS & RESISTANCE I | B. Schulz |
| 14:45 | Intro |
| 14:50 | FusResist: Genomics-driven analysis of the wheat/Fusarium pathosystem for healthy food and feed product development see abstract | T. Miedaner |
| 15:05 | Betahiemis: Sugar beet (Beta vulgaris) - Cold hardiness improvement empowered by increased tap root sugar accumulation see abstract | B. Pommerrenig |
| 15:20 | PrimedPlant: Diversity between barley cultivars in response to priming agents see abstract | A. Schikora |
| 15:35 | End of SESSION 4 |
| 15:35 | POSTER SESSION & COFFEE |
| 17:30 | SESSION 5: STRESS & RESISTANCE II |
 F. Ordon |
| 17:30 | Intro |
| 17:35 | COBRA: A combination of systems biology and experimental high-throughput approaches to engineer durable resistance against plant viruses in crops see abstract |
F. Ordon |
| 17:50 | NESTOR: NESTOR: NEmatode Susceptibility Targets fOr a durable Resistance - current achievements of the NESTOR project NESTOR see abstract | S. Siddique |
| 18:05 | IdeMoDeResBar: Identification, modification and deployment of genetic factors controlling resistance to important pathogens in barley see abstract |
 D. Perovic |
| 18:20 | GeWiDis: Exploiting Genome Wide diversity for Disease resistance improvement of oilseed rape see abstract | C. Obermeier |
| 18:35 | NEMARES: Importance of root lesion nematodes in German crop production and strategies to breed resistant varieties see abstract | G. Capistrano Goßmann |
| 19:50 | ChitoPop: Improvement of poplar pathogen response and mycorrhization by modification of LysM proteins see abstract | T. Teichmann |
| 19:05 | End of SESSION 5 |
| 19:30 | WORKSHOP: PLANT 2030 ACADEMY (Academy Participants only) |
| 22:00 | End of WORKSHOP |
| 22:00 | End of DAY 2 |
Wednesday, February 7th 2018
| 09:00 | SESSION 6: BREEDING I |
 V. Korzun |
| 09:00 | Intro |
| 09:05 | SelWineQ: Sensory Quality of Wines from Breeding Population see abstract | J. Vestner |
| 09:20 | GeneBank2.0: Genomics-based exploitation of wheat genetic resources for plant breeding see abstract | J. Reif |
| 09:35 | SHAPE: Structural genome variation, haplotype diversity and the barley pan-genome - Exploring structural genome diversity for barley breeding see abstract |
 N. Stein |
| 09:50 | RECONSTRUCT: Unraveling the contribution of soil biodiversity to maize growth and fitness through combined omics-based in silico modeling and reconstruction biology see abstract | N. Gerlach |
| 10:05 | OSIRIS: Exploring the yield potential of novel spike architecture in hexaploid wheat by targeted mutagenesis using RNA-guided Cas9 endonuclease and genome wide association mapping see abstract | N. Poursarebani |
| 10:20 | TarBreed: Targeted breeding of rapeseed (Brassica napus) and potato (Solanum tubersosum) with a non-transgenic, site-specific mutagenesis system see abstract | A. Schnittger |
| 10:35 | End of SESSION 6 |
| 10:35 | Coffee break |
| 11:05 | SESSION 7 - BREEDING II | J. Reif |
| 11:05 | HERBY: Harnessing meiotic recombination in barley (Hordeum vulgare) see abstract | S. Heckmann |
| 11:20 | SolaMI: Studies on soil N-dependent flowering and tuberization in Arabidopsis thaliana and Solanum tuberosum cultivars see abstract | J. Van Dingenen |
| 11:35 | BreedPatH: Breeding value pattern recognition in hybrid crops see abstract | R. Snowdon |
| 11:50 | MAZE: Accessing the genomic and functional diversity of maize to improve quantitative traits see abstract | C. Schön |
| 12:05 | HaploTools: Generation of Haploidy-inducing Lines via Genome Engineering - Novel Tools for an Accelerated Plant Breeding Process of Mono- and Eudicot Crops see abstract | A. Houben |
| 12:20 | BRIWECS |
| 12:35 | End of SESSION 7 |
| 12:35 | Closing Remarks |
M. Arlt |
| 12:45 | Lunch |
| 13:45 | End of PLANT 2030 STATUS SEMINAR 2018 |