Thursday
Auditorium 3, Nahamías Building
Morning
SECTION 2: Innovations developed from plant genetic resources to face the effects of climate change.
Afternoon
SECTION 3. Innovations developed from plant genetic resources to guarantee food and nutritional security.
Master Talk
Tomato genetic resources, their microorganisms and climate change: A research prospect for future challenges.
Dr. Máximo González -CEAZA-Chile
Máximo Gonzalez
Exposure
Management of native vegetation for conservation on site of the butiá palm groves in times of climate change.
Dr. Ênio Sosinski – EMBRAPA Brazil
Exposure
Strategies to put plant genetic resources at the service of agriculture resilient to climate change.
Dr. Daniela Bustos-Korts - UACh Chile
Exposure
Wild relatives of alfalfa from environments affected by severe droughts, for adaptation to climate change of livestock farming in Mediterranean Chile.
Dr. Carlos Ovalle - Chile
Coffee Break and Poster Session
Exposure
Water crisis in Uruguay and the conservation of landraces.
Dr. Rafael Vidal – UdR Uruguay
Exposure
Genetic pathways from extremist plants: new approach for crops genetic engineering to abiotic stress tolerance.
Dr(c) Olman Gómez – UFRO Chile
Buffet lunch
Master Talk
Use of corn genetic resources in public genetic improvement programs in Latin America: Challenges and opportunities.
Dr. Alberto Chassaigne – CIMMYT Mexico
Alberto Chassaigne
Exposure
Plant genetic resources and local knowledge in the “Quebrada de los Cuervos and Sierras del Yerbal” in Uruguay.
Dr. Mercedes Rivas – UdelaR Uruguay
Exposure
Utility of pre-breeding for the creation of new varieties of Blackberries (Rubus spp.) from the Chapingo University in Mexico with disease tolerance.
Dr. Sergio Segura – UACh Mexico
Coffee Break and Poster Session
Exposure
Genetic diversity of elite cassava accessions for commercial quality in Paraguay.
Dr. Amalio Mendoza – IPTA Paraguay
Exposure
Food heritage and biodiversity and its relationship with the valorization of genetic resources in Brazil.
Dr. Ricardo Elesbão Alves - EMBRAPA Brazil
Exposure
Evaluation of 63 fique accessions (Furcraea spp. L) and selection of promising accessions in the Agrosavia working collection
Nancy Grisales - AGROSAVIA Colombia
Exposure
Hi-C and Ultra-Long reads sequencing for whole genome sequencing for “De Novo” genome assembly at chromosomal scale in AUSTRAL-omics
Dr. Victoria Suescún - Aulstral Omics
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