LXVI SIGA Annual Congress
“Climate-smart plants to feed the future”
05-08 September 2023
SESSION 2 - Breeding for resilience: addressing climate change in plant genetics
ORAL COMMUNICATIONS2.01 | Adapting cereal development to changing climates |
2.02 | Pale-green crops for a new sustainable agriculture |
2.03 | A phenomics approach to drought and pathogen responses in a tomato genotype collection |
2.04 | The Global Durum Genomic Resource in use: a collaborative genomics initiative to leverage genetic resources for increasing and characterizing the breeding value of durum varieties |
2.05 | Engineering water use in tomato by generating SlMyb60 mutants using a CRISPR-Cas9- based approach |
2.06 | Salinity effects on alfalfa forage yield and quality in the San Juaquin Valley of California |
2.07 | Polyploidy and stress: does chromosome doubling affect stress tolerance in alfalfa? |
2.08 | The Fagio.Lo project |
2.09 | Breeding potentials of Lentil (Lens culinaris Medik.) for food and nutrition security in the face of climate change |
2.10 | Exploiting a low-linkage disequilibrium, highly diverse collection of wild emmer (T. dicoccoides) for GWAS targeted to traits of adaptive and agricultural value |
2.11 | Identification of new sources of resistance to fungal diseases in bread wheat |
2.12 | Development of fertilization approaches for efficient mineral nutrition in bread wheat |
2.13 | Involvement of Abscisic acid-stress-ripening (ASR) gene in response to high salinity and water deficit in wheat |
2.14 | In vitro assessment of resistance of durum wheat landraces to Fusarium foot rot |
2.15 | Testing a subset of the Global Durum Wheat Panel collection for resistance to soil-borne cereal mosaic virus |
2.16 | Early selection of stress tolerant durum wheat recombinant lines: targeted introgressions of Thinopyrum spp. chromatin improve seedlings response to heat and water stress |
2.17 | Enhancing drought tolerance in durum wheat targeting epicuticular waxes content through Genome Editing |
2.18 | Harnessing Genetic Diversity to Enhance Cold Tolerance in Durum Wheat through Genome-wide Association Approach: A Pathway for Climate-Adaptive Cultivar Development |
2.19 | The barley mutant happy under the sun 1 (hus1): An additional contribution to pale green crops |
2.20 | Forward and reverse genetics analyses of culm morphology in barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) |
2.21 | Non-Photochemical Quenching (NPQ) barley mutants: a valuable source of allelic variants to improve photosynthesis efficiency and yield in crops |
2.22 | Improving Italian elite rice varieties for different agronomic traits |
2.23 | Genomic, agronomic, and bioclimatic characterization of cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) and rice (Oryza sativa) landraces combined with seasonal weather forecasting to enhance climate adaptation for smallholder farming communities in Mozambique |
2.24 | Research across disciplinary boundaries: tailoring crop genetics and climate services to smallholder farming systems in northern Mozambique |
2.25 | Genetic control of physiological responses to heat stress in grapevine |
2.26 | Expression profiling of ripening-associated master regulators in grapevine berries with altered maturation time |
2.27 | Identification of cis-regulatory elements associated with differentially expressed genes under drought stress in grapevine |
2.28 | The role of small non-coding RNAs (small ncRNAs) in phenotypic plasticity of grapevine |
2.29 | Phenoplant: an innovative plant phenotyping platform for drought stress analysis in rootstock/scion grapevine combinations |
2.30 | Analysis of leaf transcriptome in two Citrus varieties under PEG-induced drought stress |
2.31 | Correlation between morphological/molecular variation and ecogeographic distribution of Algerian wild olives |
2.32 | Genetic study and constitution of new varieties of Camelina sativa L.: agronomic comparison between spring and winter cultivation in North Italy |
2.33 | Highlighting adaptive potential to increase sustainability of maize crop through landscape genomics |
2.34 | Exploring the variability of phytic acid in a panel of traditional maize varieties: implications for nutritional enhancement |
2.35 | Characterization of traditional polenta maize varieties from Lombardy region: an opportunity to face climate change. |
2.36 | GEMMA: exploring maize biodiversity and microbiome in Italian local varieties as strategic tools to face abiotic and biotic stresses in climate change |
2.37 | PRIMA-DROMAMED: exploring maize genetic resources of adaptation to heat and drought within Mediterranean to be introduced in breeding programs for resilience |
2.38 | Recovery, morphological, molecular, and nutritional characterization of the globe artichoke “Carciofo Ortano”, a landrace with a high risk of genetic erosion cultivated in Central Italy |
2.39 | High levels of anthocyanins in potato reduce susceptibility to Rhizoctonia solani infection |
2.40 | Impact of polyploidization on abiotic stress tolerance in the tuber-bearing potato species Solanum commersonii |
2.41 | Ectopic expression of AtMYB90 in tomato results in increased anthocyanin accumulation and defective pollen development. |
2.42 | Molecular and physiological mechanisms of tolerance induced by the rhizobacterium Siccibacter sp. Strain C2 in tomato plants under single and combined abiotic and biotic stresses |
2.43 | Role of CXE15 in strigolactone degradation under drought stress in tomato |
2.44 | Combined genomic and transcriptomic approach to uncover candidate genes for heat stress response of a thermotolerant tomato genotype |
2.45 | Exploring the multifaceted nature of DWARF27 (D27) genes in tomato |
2.46 | The role of SiO2-based nanoparticles in tomato plants salt stress mitigation |
2.47 | Functional characterization of a tomato GST gene under different abiotic stresses |
2.48 | A BSA-seq approach to identify candidate genes controlling stigma position in cultivated tomato |
2.49 | Investigating the nucleotide diversity in the glutathione S-transferase gene family across the tomato gene pool and its significance in controlling plant response to stress |
2.50 | Seed germination in the global warming era: strategies to investigate the heat tolerance in tomato during germination stage |
2.51 | Exploring the impact of domestication and polyploidization on phenotypic plasticity in cotton |
2.52 | Exploring the potential of microalgae as mitigation agents for plastic pollution |