Sunday 5 July

Registration and mounting of posters

Monday 6 July

07:30

Registration and mounting of posters

Welcome by James Brown, chair of EMCRF
Welcome by Mogens Hovmøller, head of GRRC and local host

Keynote: Worldwide spread of wheat yellow rust from the centre of diversity in Himalayas / Sajid Ali, University of Agriculture, Peshawar, Pakistan / Aarhus University, Denmark

PgtSNP chip: A high-throughput SNP genotyping array / Les Szabo et al., University of Minnesota, USA

Genetic differentiation and migration in worldwide populations of the wheat leaf rust fungus, Puccinia triticina / James Kolmer et al., University of Minnesota, USA

Population structure and diversity of P. striiformis in the past / Tine Thach, Aarhus University, Denmark

Structure and regional differences in U.S. Blumeria graminis f. sp. tritici populations: divergence, migration, fungicide sensitivity, and virulence patterns / Christina Cowger et al., North Carolina State University, USA

The wheat rust toolbox: Management and visualization of global wheat rust data  / Jens G. Hansen, Aarhus University, Denmark

13:30

Why are alternate host important for stem rust, but not for stripe rust in the US Pacific Northwest / Xianming Chen et al., USA

 First insights into segregation for aggressiveness among sexual progeny isolates of Puccinia striiformis / Chris Sørensen et al., Aarhus University, Denmark

Correlation among life-history traits in plant-pathogen interaction and consequences for epidemic spread: a case study in the wheat leaf rust pathosystem / Henriette Goyeau et al., INRA, France

Regulation of the hemoglobin/NO cycle i barley infected with powdery mildew or yellow (stripe) rust / Massimiliiano Carciofi, Aarhus University, Denmark

Membrane trafficking in plant cells attacked by powdery mildew fungi / Hans Thordal-Christensen et al., University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Tuesday 7 July

Keynote: Fighting on many fronts – effector-assisted breeding for multiple pathogens / Richard Oliver, Curtin University, Australia

PsANT, the adenine nucleotide translocase of Puccinia striiformis, promotes cell death and fungal growth / Chunlei Tang, Northwest A&F University, China

Yellow rust fungus effector candidate PEC6 targets adenosine kinase to suppress PAMT triggerede immunity / Changhai Liu et al., University of Copenhagen, Denmark

09:30

Awakening of ETI: Stripe rust effector candidates reveal HR on wheat via a bacterial type III secretion system / Ahmet Caglar Ozketen et al., Middle East Technical University, Turkey

An integrated approach to understanding adult plant resistance: histology and molecular features of stem rust on wheat / Howard D. Castelyn, University of the Free State, South Africa

Discussion

Keynote: Second-generation biotech approaches for durable disease resistance in cereals / Patrick Schweizer, IPK Gatersleben, Gemany

Lunch

Breeding for the future: Generation of wheat plants resistant to powdery mildew by tilling / Johanna Acevedo-Garcia et al., Aachen University, Germany

Durable but complex: stem rust resistance from emmer wheat / Wolfgang Spielmeyer, CSIRO Agriculture GPO, Australia

The distribution and sequence conservation of stripe rust resistance gene Yr36 in wild emmer wheat natural populations / Lin Huang et al., University of Haifa, Israel

Genetic analysis of Lr13 and Ne3 / Colin W. Hiebert, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Canada

Identification and location of genomic regions controlling adult plant resistance to barley leaf rust / Davinder Singh, The University of Sydney, Australia

A meta analysis of partial resistance loci to powdery mildew in wheat / Morten Lillemo & Qiongxian Lu, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway

Nordic public-private-partnership in pre-breeding for disease resistance in barley / Ahmed Jahoor, Nordic Seed A/S, Denmark

Discussion

Coffee and poster session

Keynote: Integrated management of biotrophs and necrotrophs / Neil Paveley, ADAS UK Ltd, High Mowthorpe, UK

Heavy attacks of yellow rust in southern Sweden for the last seven years / Gunilla Berg & Louise Alden, Swedish Board of Agriculture, Sweden

Evaluation of Nepalese wheat germplasm for rust and powdery mildew resistance / Resham B. Amgai, Nepal Agricultural Research Council, Nepal

Challenges, progress and perspectives for the implementation of integrated management of wheat stripe rust caused by Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici in China / Wanquan Chen et al., State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, China

Dinner, music and dance

Wednesday 8 July

Effect of Sequential or Co-inoculation of Blumeria graminis f. sp. tritici and Parastagonospora nodorum on disease development on Wheat / Belachew Asalf Tadesse, Norwegian Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Research, Ås, Norway

The progressive failure of VPM resistance to all three wheat rusts on the Australian continent / William S. Cuddy et al., Plant Breeding Institute, University of Sydney, Australia

Injury profile simulator (IPSIM), a modelling platform to design qualitative models predicting injury profiles as a function of cropping practices and production situations. Application to the wheat brown rust / Marie Hélène Robin et al., University of Toulouse, France

Discussion

Visit to Flakkebjerg and Global Rust Reference Center

Programme:

Field trials

Green house and laboratory activities

Refreshments

Departure to Copenhagen Central Station.