Workshop on Product management and delivery in GCP rice research in Asia

6th and 8th November 2007, Bangkok, Thailand

List of participants
Agenda
Group photo 1   Group photo 2

Presentations

• Revitalising marginal lands: Discovery of genes for tolerance of saline and P-deficient soils to enhance and sustain productivity. GCP Project G3005.02: Progress and expected impacts of Saltol and Pup1 QTLs on rice improvement (Ismail Abdelbagi)
• SP3 project G3005.18: Development of low-cost gene-based trait assay technologies in cereals (CM Vera Cruz, E Mercado, M Reveche, J Chen, D Skinner, M Bernardo, D Sanchez,  B Collard, JH Chin, P Virk, Y Xu, M William, J Wu, D Joshi, M Bustamam, V Verdier, J Agarcio, MN Ndjiondjop, K McNally, J Crouch, D Mackill)
• The 'Community of Practices' Concept applied to rice production in the Mekong Region: Quick conversion of popular rice varieties with emphasis on drought, salinity and grain quality improvement (T Toojinda)
• Product management and delivery of GCP researches on QTL for rice disease resistance in Asia (R Nelson, CM Vera Cruz, M Bustamam, G Carrillo, KR Trijatmiko, IH Somantri, I Ona, M Variar, JC Bhatt, H Leung)
• Breeding for drought tolerance: QTLs to cultivars for farmers (S Robin)
• The delivery model of the Barwale Founcation (Dinseh Joshi)
• Products Management within the Rice in Asia Platform (Philippe Monneveux)
• Conclusions (Carmen de Vicente)