Welcome and opening ceremony

8:30 – 9:00

Welcome and Opening Remarks

Prof. Chen Guohong, Vice President of YZU

Dr. Michele Marcotte, Chair of AAFC delegation, Director of International Research Laboratory of Agriculture and Agri-Product Safety, Director SDT – Ottawa and Research and Development Centre (ORDC), AAFC

Dr. Denis Petitclerc, Director General, Ontario and Quebec Region, AAFC

Scientific Workshop

9:00– 9:20

Dr. Gavin Humphreys, Winter Wheat Breeding at ORDC

9:20 – 9:40

Prof. Chenwu Xu, A Comparison of Genomic Selection Methods and Multivariate GBLUP Modeling for Prediction of Hybrid Performance in Crops

9:40 – 10:00

Dr. Nick Tinker, Bioinformatics and next generation sequencing

10:00 – 10:10

Tea break

10:10-10:30

Dr. Zhitong Yin, Exploration of elite gene resources for photosynthetic light use efficiency in maize

10:30 – 10:50

Dr. Chengming Sun, Image-analysis-based evaluation of wheat growth status

10:50 – 11:10

Dr. Phil Bailey, SeCan, Marker Assisted Selection with a focus on soybean and the release of varieties

11:10 – 11:30

Dr. Qingsong Zuo, Research progress of blanket seedling in rapeseed under the new mechanized-transplanting cultivation mode

11:30-11:50

Ms. Li Guo, Introduction of international internship program

12:00 – 13:30

Lunch and break

14:00 – 14:20

Dr. Bao-Luo Ma, Coping with soil salinity and crop nutrient balance

14:20 – 14:40

Prof. Youping Wang, Germplasm Innovation of Brassica napus using Biotechnology

14:40 – 15:00

Dr. Annick Bertrand, Understanding cold tolerance for forage crop improvement

15:00 – 15:10

Tea break

15:10 – 15:30

Dr. Jianqiang Zhou, Adaptation of sweet sorghum and millet production

15:30 – 15:50

Dr. Tao Li, QTLs/genes Associated with Fusarium Head Blight Resistance in Wheat

15:50 – 16:10

Dr. Phil Bailey, SeCan, Corn, wheat and other Cereals: Procedures of Cultivar Release and Seed Handling Systems in Canada

16:10 –16:20

Closing remarks

16:20 – 18:00  

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