24th Biannual International Plant Resistance to Insect Symposium

CIMMYT Texcoco, México
March 2 -4, 2020

Program

Phenotyping Methodologies

Mechanisms of Resistance

Breeding for Resistance

Plant–Arthropod Interactions

Student presentations

General program

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March 2, 2020

Day 1	Transportation to CIMMYT HQ 7:40 \| 8:00 Breakfast 8:00 \| 9:30
Opening	Welcoming day 1 Leonardo Crespo \| CIMMYT-Global Wheat Program 9:30 \| 9:45 Global perspectives on wheat productivity and its pests Hans Braun \| CIMMYT-Global Wheat Program Director 9:45 \| 10:20 Breeding for resistance to maize insect-pests in the tropics: status and prospects B. M. Prasanna \| CIMMYT-Global Maize Program Director 10:20 \| 10:55 History of IPRI Michael Smith \| Kansas State Unviersity 10:55 \| 11:30 Coffee break & Group photo 11:30 \| 12:10
Phenotyping Methodologies	How reliable are phenotyping methodologies for insect’s resistance: case of cereals and legumes in North Africa, West and Central Asia Mustapha El-Bouhssini \| ICARDA 12:10 \| 12:50 Host plant resistance in grain sorghum to the sugarcane aphid and identifying the mechanisms for resistance Scott Armstrong \| U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 12:50 \| 13:20 Lunch 13:20 \| 14:20 High-throughput phenotyping in wheat for biotic stresses Francelino Rodrigues \| CIMMYT-Sustainable Intensification Program 14:20 \| 14:50
Breeding for resistance	The road from discovery to commercialization of aphid resistant soybean varieties Kelley J. Tilmon \| Oklahoma State University 14:50 \| 15:30 The potential of wild soybean as a source of resistance to the soybean aphid in cultivated soybean Louis Hesler \| U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 15:30 \| 16:00 Identification and characterization of Hessian fly resistance genes among a world core collection of Aegilops tauschii Marion Harris \| North Dakota State University 16:00 \| 16:30 Coffee break 16:30 \| 16:45 From wild to cultivated, introgression of resistance towards the bird cherry-oat aphid Therese Bengtsson \| Swedish University of Agricultural Scienes 16:45 \| 17:15 Gene editing for biotic stress tolerance in wheat Kanwarpal Dhugga \| CIMMYT-Genetic Resources Program 17:15 \| 17:45 Clossing Day 1 Leonardo Crespo \| CIMMYT-Global Wheat Program 17:45 \| 18:00 Dinner 18:00 \| 20:30 Transportation to Hotel 20:30

March 3, 2020

Day 2	Transportation to CIMMYT HQ 7:30 \| 7:50 Breakfast 7:50 \| 9:20
Plant–Arthropod Interactions	Interdisciplinary approaches to understanding virulence in the soybean aphid (Aphis glycines) Andy Michel \| Ohio State University 9:30 \| 10:10 Deciphering the tug of war between cowpea and cowpea aphids Isgouhi Kaloshian \| University of California Riverside 10:10 \| 10:40 Resistance in individual plants and in plantations: resistance breeding combined with cultivar mixing does the job for strawberry Johan A. Stenberg \| Swedish University of Agricultural Scienes 10:40 \| 11:10 Coffee break 11:10 \| 11:25
Guided tour CIMMYT	Visit to CIMMYT’s Museum, Labs & Genbank CIMMYT STAFF 11:25 \| 12:55 Lunch 12:55 \| 13:55 Priming for enhanced defense in Hordeum vulgare Torsten Will \| Julius Kühn-Institut 13:55 \| 14:25 Investigating the effect of the microbiome on methylation in the Russian wheat aphid, Diuraphis Noxia Anna-Maria Botha-Oberholster \| Stellenbosch University 14:25 \| 14:55 Aphid resistant wheat: is it probable or even possible? Gia Aradottir \| Rothamsted Research 14:55 \| 15:25 Coffee break 15:25 \| 15:40
Poster Session	CIMMYT 15:40 \| 16:20
Student presentations	Ingestion of cprr1-8-siRNA reduce virulence in both Diuraphis noxia and Myzus persicae Hendrik Swiegers \| Stellenbosch University 16:20 \| 16:50 Whole-genome bisulfite sequencing of related Russian wheat aphid biotypes Pieter Du Preez \| Stellenbosch University 16:50 \| 17:20 Genome-wide association analysis of russian wheat aphid (Diuraphis noxia) resistance in Dn4 derived wheat lines evaluated in South Africa Lavinia Kisten \| Agricultural Research Council, Small Grain, 17:20 \| 17:50 Closing Day 2 Leonardo Crespo \| CIMMYT-GWP 17:50 \| 18:00 Dinner 18:00 \| 20:30 Transportation to Hotel 20:30

March 4, 2020

Day 3	Transportation to CIMMYT HQ 7:00 \| 7:20 Breakfast 7:20 \| 8:20 Welcoming Leonardo Crespo \| CIMMYT-GWP 8:20 \| 8:30
Mechanisms of Resistance	Deciphering mechanism of host-plant resistance in wheat to aphids in north-western plains of India Poonam Jasrotia \| Indian Institute of Wheat and Barley Research 8:30 \| 9:10 Defensive responses of rice cultivars resistant to Cnaphalocrocis medinalis (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) Wen-Po Chuang \| National Taiwan University 9:10 \| 9:40 Investigating the ecological and molecular factors underlining the wheat-wheat curl mite-virus pathosystem Punya Nachappa \| Colorado State University 9:40 \| 10:10 Molecular mechanism of plant resistance to Hessian fly Ming-Shun Chen \| U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 10:10 \| 10:40 Coffee break 10:40 \| 10:55 Aphid virulence to a wheat resistance gene involves downregulation of numerous aphid uncharacterized proteins Michael Smith \| Kansas State Unviersity 10:55 \| 11:25 Barley varieties Stoneham and Sydney exhibit mild antibiosis and antixenosis resistance to the wheat curl mite, Aceria tosichella (Keifer) Lina Aguirre-Rojas \| Kansas State Unviersity 11:25 \| 11:55 Sorghum tolerance to the sugarcane aphid Joe Louis \| University of Nebraska 11:55 \| 12:25 Lunch 12:25 \| 13:25 Eco-metabolomics for host plant resistance to thrips Kirsten Leiss \| Wageningen University 13:25 \| 13:55 Leaf profile: resistance against whiteflies in watermelon Alvin Simons \| U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 13:55 \| 14:25
Business meeting & Closing	Leonardo Crespo & IPRI Steering Committee 14:25 \| 15:10

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Committee

Organizing committee: Dr. Leonardo Crespo-Herrera (CIMMYT), Dr. Suchismita Mondal (CIMMYT), Dr. Michael Smith (KSU), Dr. Lina Aguirre (KSU), Ms. Diana Godinez (CIMMYT), Ms. Maricela Vega (CIMMYT), Ms. Brenda Dorantes (CIMMYT).

Steering committee: Dr. Richard Musser (Western Illinois University), Dr. Alvin Simmons (USDA South Carolina), Dr. Vicki Tolmay (ARC-Small Grain Institute, South Africa), Dr. Herb Eichenseer (Pioneer), and Dr. Mustapha El-Bouhssini (ICARDA).

Abstracts

Abstracts may be submitted for oral or poster presentation. They should be submitted through the online submission tool under the link provided at the Abstract submission buttons.

Deadline for abstract submission is [September 30^th, 2019]. When preparing the abstract, please follow the guidelines below:

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Deadline – October 30^th , 2019
**Payments of attendance fee will be handeled by Kansas State University.

**Registration fee (USD$ 600.00) includes transportation from/to Mexico City Airport, from/to Hotel Santa Bertha-CIMMYT and all meals throughout the event. The link above will direct you to a KSU server where you can proceed with the registration. Please, do not forget to provide us with your travel information form (https://forms.gle/axvbaqTFVr3AASuY8) as soon as you have your travel itinerary

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Accommodation

While there are a few options for accommodation around the Texcoco area. CIMMYT has a special agreement with “Hotel Santa Berta” (https://posadasantabertha.com/), for reduced accommodation costs. Please contact Ms. Diana Godinez (D.Godinez@cgiar.org) for handling your booking in Hotel Santa Berta.

Travel

Arrival

You will arrive at Benito Juarez International Airport in Mexico City. Clearing immigration and customs may take around one hour. To avoid any unnecessary delays, please make your customs declaration form as accurate as possible. Bring an official doctor’s prescription for any non-over-the counter pharmaceutical.

It is essential that you keep your immigration form in a safe place; you will not be able to leave the country without it.

Please check with the corresponding authority of your country if you require a visa to travel to Mexico.

Transport

A shuttle service will be provided from airport – CIMMYT or Hotel Santa Berta – airport. For which you need to share your arrival time and departure with the organizing committee. Please provide us with your information in this form (https://forms.gle/axvbaqTFVr3AASuY8). This information will not be shared with any third parties and only will be used for the transportation services provided by CIMMYT.

A daily shuttle service will be provided from Hotel Santa Berta – CIMMYT – Hotel Santa Berta (March 2 – 4) for the workshop.