DuPont hosts meeting of leading plant scientists to improve world agricultural productivity

Monday, 04 February 2008 00:00

Background to the project
The SP1 project 2005-07: Whole plant modeling of drought response in cereals was largely methodological and exploratory, and aimed at applying and improving the role of plant/crop modelling to assist plant breeding and genetic/genomic research in the area of drought tolerance of cereals.


DuPont hosts meeting of leading plant scientists to improve world agricultural productivity

Final meeting, 4-7 february 2008, Pioneer Johnston, Iowa, USA

Principal Investigator of project:  Delphine Luquet

Background to the project
The SP1 project 2005-07: Whole plant modeling of drought response in cereals was largely methodological and exploratory, and aimed at applying and improving the role of plant/crop modelling to assist plant breeding and genetic/genomic research in the area of drought tolerance of cereals.

Goals of the workshop
The workshop, hosted by Pioneer, addressed model-assisted characterisation of target environments for breeding, model-assisted phenotyping of complex traits (including the issue how to achieve high throughput), model-assisted trait characterisation and integration and ideotype definition.

During this 3.5-day meeting, project results, keynotes by three excellent invited speakers and presentations by colleagues of Pioneer were presented and discussed. A debate was organised at the end of each session and at the end of the workshop to further explore and follow up these scientific challenges, including discussions on new projects and partnerships to be pursued.

IA Introductory documents

I - Proceedings
Component 1 (C1): Model assisted environment characterization--Proceedings

Component 2 (C2): Multi-site trial model assisted trait evaluation for breeding--Proceedings

Component 3 (C3): Model improvement for assisting process based trait phenotyping and connection to genetic information--Proceedings

II - Talks
IIA C1 - Component 1: Model assisted environment characterization--Talks

IIB C2 - Component 2: Multi-site trial model assisted trait evaluation for breeding--Talks

IIC C3 - Component 3: Model improvement for assisting process based trait phenotyping and connection to genetic information--Talks

III Discussions

For more details on this SP1 project, please see page 92 of 2007 Project mid-year and final reports: Competitive and commissioned projects.