Program
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Monday, February 20th 2017
| 11:30 | Registration, Lunch |
| 13:30 | OPENING SESSION | M. Arlt |
| 13:30 | Welcome address by the BMBF |
 K. Michel |
| 13:40 | Welcome address by PTJ | E. Leiritz |
| 13:50 | Welcome address PLANT 2030 Managing Office | M. Arlt |
| 14:00 | Election of Program Board |
 M. Arlt |
| 14:15 | Keynote lecture |
 P. Falter-Braun |
| 15:15 | END OF OPENING SESSION |
| 15:15 | PHOTO SESSION |
| 15:35 | Coffee break & Posters |
| 16:00 | SESSION 1: BIOMASS & YIELD | R. Snowdon |
| 16:00 | POP MASS: Development and use of novel gene technologies to increase biomass yield in the woody perennial Populus spec. see abstract | T. Teichmann |
| 16:20 | SEEDS: Yield enhancement in oilseed rape see abstract | T. Schmülling |
| 16:40 | FormatPlant: Increasing agricultural yield through formate production and assimilation via optimized synthetic pathways see abstract | A. Bar-Even |
| 16:50 | MAZE: Accessing the genomic and functional diversity of maize to improve quantitative traits see abstract | C. Schön |
| 17:00 | OSIRIS: Exploring the yield potential of novel spike architecture in hexaploid wheat by genome wide association mapping and targeted mutagenesis using RNA-guided Cas endonucleases see abstract |
 T. Schnurbusch |
| 17:10 | RaPEQ: Rapeseed as a domestic protein source of excellent quality for human consumption see abstract |
 B. Weisshaar |
| 17:20 | Cornwall: Improving maize lignocellulosic materials for the bioeconomy (CornWall) see abstract |
 M. Pauly |
| 17:30 | Fullthrottle: Maximizing photosynthetic efficiency in maize see abstract | U. Schlüter |
| 17:40 | MARVEL: Yam research group to improve local and global agricultural-biodiversity and food quality see abstract | N. Laibach |
| 17:50 | END OF SESSION 1 |
| 17:50 | Break |
| 19:30 | Conference Dinner |
| 23:55 | END OF PLANT 2030 STATUS SEMINAR DAY 1 |
Tuesday, February 21st 2017
| 09:00 | SESSION 2: STRESS & RESISTANCE I | A. Graner |
| 09:00 | Other: Genomics-driven analysis of the wheat/Fusarium pathosystem for healthy food and feed product development (FusResist) see abstract |
 F. Ordon |
| 09:20 | COBRA: A combination of systems biology and experimental high-throughput approaches to engineer durable resistance against plant viruses in crops see abstract | S. Färber |
| 09:40 | GeWiDis: Exploiting Genome Wide diversity for Disease resistance improvement of oilseed rape see abstract | C. Obermeier |
| 10:00 | ELEVATOR PITCH |
 H. Berger |
| 11:00 | Coffee break & Posters |
| 11:30 | ELEVATOR PITCH - AWARDS |
H. Berger |
| 11:40 | CEREAL-ROOTS: RNA-based Plant Protection see abstract |
 K. Kogel |
| 12:00 | DELLA-STRESS: Control of abiotic stress responses by the plant DELLAs and chemicals stabilizing these repressors see abstract | C. Schwechheimer |
| 12:20 | GAMAVIR: Genes and mutants affecting virus infection in rapeseed see abstract | M. Wassenegger |
| 12:40 | END OF SESSION 2 |
| 12:40 | Lunch |
| 13:40 | SESSION 3: STRESS & RESISTANCE II |
F. Ordon |
| 13:40 | PATRIC: Application of PAMP Triggered Immunity in Crops see abstract | C. Feiler |
| 14:00 | NESTOR: NEmatode Susceptibility Targets fOr a durable Resistance - current achievements of the NESTOR project see abstract | S. Siddique |
| 14:20 | Betahiemis: Sugar beet (Beta vulgaris) - Cold hardiness improvement empowered by increased tap root sugar accumulation see abstract | B. Pommerrenig |
| 14:30 | ChitoPop: Improvement of poplar pathogen response and mycorrhization by modification of LysM proteins see abstract | T. Teichmann |
| 14:40 | IdeMoDeResBar: Identification, modification and deployment of genetic factors controlling resistance to important pathogens in barley see abstract |
 D. Perovic |
| 14:50 | NEMARES: Importance of root lesion nematodes in German crop production and strategies to breed resistant varieties (NEMARES) see abstract | C. Jung |
| 15:00 | PrimedPlant: Priming for enhanced defense as a strategy to optimize crop resistance and as a possible breeding target see abstract |
K. Kogel |
| 15:10 | END OF SESSION 3 |
| 15:10 | POSTER SESSION & COFFEE |
| 16:30 | SESSION 4: DPPN |
 U. Schurr |
| 16:30 | Introduction |
U. Schurr |
| 16:35 | TP Shoot: Establishment of multisensor platforms for assessment of plant performance-related shoot traits see abstract |
T. Altmann  F. Fiorani |
| 17:05 | TP Root: DPPN-Root: Novel root phenotyping approaches ROOT see abstract |
 A. Junker  H. Lenz |
| 17:35 | TP Seed: Seed phenotyping: concepts and key technologies see abstract | L. Borisjuk |
| 17:50 | TP Field: Field phenotyping in DPPN – Quantifying dynamic plant traits across scales in the field see abstract |
N. von Wirén  U. Rascher |
| 18:10 | TP Patho: Phenotyping plant-microbe-interactions in model and crop plants see abstract | P. Schweizer C. Vlot-Schuster |
| 18:30 | TP Techno: Enabling reuse and integration of heterogeneous phenomic data see abstract |
E. Georgii  U. Scholz |
| 18:50 | Conclusion |
U. Schurr |
| 19:00 | Break |
| 19:30 | DPPN - Panel discussion |
| 20:30 | END OF SESSION 4 |
| 19:30 | WORKSHOP: YOUNG SCIENTISTS |
H. Berger |
| 21:30 | END OF WORKSHOP |
| 21:30 | END OF PLANT 2030 STATUS SEMINAR DAY 2 |
Wednesday, February 22nd 2017
| 08:30 | SESSION 5: BREEDING | M. Ouzunova |
| 08:30 | BARLEY BIODIVERSITY: Wild barley introgression libraries HEB-25 and S42IL: sensor-based high-throughput phenotyping in field see abstract |
 K. Pillen |
| 08:50 | BreedPatH: Breeding Value Pattern Recognition in Hybrid Crops see abstract | A. Abbadi |
| 09:00 | GeneBank2.0: Genomics-based exploitation of wheat genetic resources for plant breeding GeneBank2.0 see abstract | J. Reif |
| 09:10 | 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 |
| 09:20 | HERBY: Harnessing meiotic recombination in barley (Hordeum vulgare) see abstract | S. Heckmann |
| 09:30 | SelWineQ: Predictive Breeding for Wine Quality see abstract | M. Méret |
| 09:40 | SolaMI: Nitrogen-regulated developmental transitions in Arabidopsis thaliana and Solanum tuberosum see abstract | V. Wahl |
| 09:50 | TarBreed: Targeted breeding of rapeseed (Brassica napus) and potato (Solanum tubersosum) with a non-transgenic, site-specific mutagenesis system see abstract | A. Schnittger |
| 10:00 | SHAPE: Structural genome variation, haplotype diversity and the barley pan-genome - Exploring structural genome diversity for barley breeding see abstract |
 N. Stein |
| 10:10 | EnCroPho: Enhancing Crop Photosynthesis (EnCroPho) see abstract | P. Westhoff |
| 10:20 | END OF SESSION 5 |
| 10:20 | Coffee break |
| 10:50 | SESSION 6: SYSTEMS & SOIL |
 R. Töpfer |
| 10:50 | AWECOS: Assessment of wheat cropping systems from an economical, ecological and the society's perspective – the case of plant disease resistance breeding see abstract |
 H. Deising |
| 11:10 | BRIWECS: Breeding innovations in wheat for resilient cropping systems see abstract |
 H. Stützel |
| 11:30 | IMPAC3: Novel genotypes for mixed cropping allow for IMProved sustainable land use ACross arable land, grassland and woodland - Project Overview see abstract | H. Steinmann |
| 11:50 | INSUSFAR: INnovative approaches to optimize genetic diversity for SUStainable FARming systems of the future. Resilience and stability in composite cross winter wheat populations and the need to improve the populations see abstract | M. Finckh |
| 12:10 | NOVISYS: PIWIs in novel viticulture systems for sustainable production and products see abstract |
 K. Herzog |
| 12:30 | RECONSTRUCT: Unraveling the contribution of soil biodiversity to maize growth and fitness through combined omics-based in silico modeling and reconstruction biology see abstract | M. Bucher |
| 12:40 | Closing Remarks |
M. Arlt |
| 12:45 | END OF SESSION 6 |
| 12:45 | Lunch |
| 13:45 | END OF PLANT 2030 STATUS SEMINAR 2017 |