MPIPZ/ LUMS-Pakistan Plant Science Symposium
06. – 07. October 2021
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Meeting ID: 958 4362 5907, Passcode: 759215
All times are European time (+3 hours in Pakistan)
06 October 2021
09:00 h – 09:30 h Opening Statements
09:00 h Muhammad Tariq Plant Science at LUMS Pakistan
09:15 h Raphael Mercier Plant Science at MPIPZ
09:30 h – 10:30 h Chromosome Biology and Epigenetics Chair: Muhammad Tariq
09:30 h Raphael Mercier The regulation of meiotic recombination
09:50 h Zaigham Shazad Epimutations: novel drivers of phenotypic evolution
10:10 h Franziska Turck How information hidden in chromatin structure helps to understand flowering time regulation
10:30 – 10:50 hrs Break
10:50 hrs to 12:10 hrs Plant Breeding and Crop Improvement Chair: Angela Hancock
10:50 h Sultan Habib Plant Science Research at CAS, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad
11:10 h Charlie Underwood Into the wild: decoding and harnessing natural variation in plant breeding
11:30 h Faiz Ahmad Efficient in vitro regeneration improves recovery of spectinomycin resistant transplastomic shoots in potato
11:50 h Iván Acosta Auxin signaling during barley pollen maturation
End of first meeting day
07 October 2021
09:00 h – 10:20 h Evolution and Abiotic Stress response Chair: Charlie Underwood
09:00 h Khurram Bashir/ Development of technologies for abiotic stress tolerance in plants/
Muhammad Tariq Agronomic interventions for sustainable Agriculture
09:20 h Angela Hancock An island model for adaptation: Cape Verde Arabidopsis
09:40 h Zulfiqar Ali Climate SMART Agriculture at MNSUAM
10:00 h Angela Hay Exploding seed pods crave copper
10:20 – 10:40 h Break
10:40 – 12:30 hrs Plant-Microbe Interactions, Nutrition and Biotic Stress Chair: Khurram Bashir
10:40 h Moddassir Ahmed Flag leaf metabolome of transgenic wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) in response to different N fertilizer regimes
11:00 h Tonni Grube Andersen Passage cells and the outer xylem pole: an overlooked highway for root communication?
11:20 h Aysha Kiran Genetic variation in grain zinc and iron content with reference to root system architecture of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)
11:40 h Abdul Qayyum Rao Transgenic/Genome Editing approaches for important Crop
12:00 h Paul Schulze-Lefert Iron Nutrition Mediated by the Plant Microbiota
12:20 h Paul Schulze-Lefert Closing remarks
End of conference