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Climate Change and ICRCGC 2

International Climate Resilient Crop Genomics Consortium (www.ICRCGC.org) was founded in 2011 to formulate the concepts, strategies, tools and techniques to develop climate-smart crop varieties. Its missions includes utilization of the available genomic resources, particularly in the wild crop relatives, and the advanced tools of genomics, specifically next-generation sequencing. ICRCGC organized ten wrokshops during the PAG conference in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016; one workshop in collaboration with Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation during the PAG conference in 2012, and one conference in collaboration with International Society of Crop Science held at Brazil in 2012. During these ten workshops, the deliberations were focused on the basic, 'translational' and participatory research as well as deliberations on future priorities. Meantime, a team of ICRCGC members has published a review entitled 'Application of genomics-assisted breeding for generation of climate resilient crops: progress and prospects' (Front. Plant Sci. 6:563. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2015.00563) as an outcome of the white paper drafted by the ICRCGC members (http://www.icrcgc.org/white_paper.html). In parallel, a number of other platforms with crop or geographic focus have been constituted with similar goals as the ICRCGC. Improved synergy, efficiency and outcomes seems likely if the work of these separate groups can be coordinated. The three workshops of Climate Change and ICRCGC I, II and III during PAG 2017 will aim at forging and fostering collaboration of the crop-wise, trait-wise and region-wise collaboration and interaction among academia, funding agencies and policy makers to architect a global platform.
Date: Sunday, January 15, 2017
Time: 10:30 AM-12:40 PM
Room: Pacific Salon 2
Chair:
Chittaranjan Kole
Co-Chair:
Jeffrey D. Ehlers
10:30 AM
W159
Adapting Sunflower to Climate Change by Tapping Variation in Its Wild Relatives
Loren H. Rieseberg, University of British Columbia; Gregory J. Baute, University of British Columbia; Elena Albrecht, SOLTIS; Walter O. Anyanga, National Semi-Arid Resources Research Institute

10:56 AM
W160
Translational Genomics for Developing Superior and Climate-Change Ready Varieties in Semi-Arid Legume Crops
Rajeev K Varshney, ICRISAT

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11:22 AM
W161
Crop Breeding for the Development of Climate Resilient Crops: Approaches at ICARDA
Michael Baum, ICARDA; Ahmed Amri, ICARDA; Aladdin Hamwieh, ICARDA; Ayed Al-Abdallat, ICARDA; Shiv Kumar Agrawal, ICARDA; Andrea Visioni, ICARDA; Wuletaw Tadesse, ICARDA; Ramesh Verma, ICARDA; Aziz Niane, ICARDA; Jens Leon, University of Bonn; Oyiga Chijioke, University of Bonn; Agim Ballvora, University of Bonn; Francis Ogbonnaya, GRDC; Ram Sharma, ICARDA

11:48 AM
W162
Advancing Climate Resilience in the Grain Legume Cowpea with MARS, MAGIC and Root Traits
Philip A. Roberts, Dept. of Nematology, University of California; Bao-Lam Huynh, Dept. of Nematology, University of California; Timothy J. Close, Department of Botany & Plant Sciences, University of California; Ndiaga Cisse, Institut Senegalais de la Recherches Agricole; Joseph Batieno, Institut de l'Environnement et de Recherches Agricoles; Issa Drabo, Institut de l'Environnement et de Recherches Agricoles; Ousmane Boukar, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture; Christian Fatokun, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture; James D. Burridge, Department of Plant Science, The Pennsylvania State University; Maria Muñoz-Amatriain, Department of Botany & Plant Sciences, University of California; Jeffrey D. Ehlers, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; Steve Wanamaker, Department of Botany & Plant Sciences, University of California

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12:14 PM
W163
Exploration of Phaseolus Germplasm for Heat and Drought Tolerance
Antonia Palkovic, University of California; Sarah M. Dohle, University of California; Jorge C. Berny, University of California; Viviana Medina, University of California; Matthew E. Gilbert, University of California; Paul Gepts, University of California

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