Program
Tuesday, February 12; 14:00-16:20◆ Chair:
Prof. Dr. Mohan Saxena
Executive Secretary,
International Dryland Development Commission◆ Rapporteur: Dr. Vinay Nangia
Senior Hydrologist, ICARDA
Specially Appointed Associate Professor,IPDRE, Tottori University
TimeTitle

14:00-14:10 Opening remarks

Durum wheat ideotype for thedrylands of tomorrow

Manipulation of centromere
specific histone H3 (CENH3) in
14:40-14:55 crop plants for haploid breeding: towards sustainable foodproduction in dryland
14:55-15:10

Prof. Hisashi Tsujimoto

Dr. Filippo Bassi andDr. Michael Baum

TU-ICARDA Satellite Symposium
At 13th International Conference on Development of Drylands
February 12, 2019, 14:00-16:20
Hotel Indana Palace Jodhpur, India

Dr. Takayoshi Ishii

Pulses for harvesting more fromDr. Shiv Kumar Agrawal
less in dry areas

How to find effective root symbiotic
microbes for crops? -Toward the use
15:25-15:40
Dr. Takeshi Taniguchi
of customized microbes for sustainable agriculture in an object area15:40-15:55

Date: February 00, 2019

Speakers

Water-saving wheat: tuning wa14:10-14:25 ter use efficiency and drought
Dr. Ryosuke Mega
tolerance using ABA receptors
14:25-14:40

Crop Improvement for Sustainable Productionin Marginal Regions

Barley improvement for marginallands

Dr. Ramesh VermaJointly Organized byInternational Platform for Dryland
Research and Education,
Tottori University, Japan

15:55-16:15 Discussion
Crop improvement for the
16:15-16:20 dry areas/
Conclusions and closing remarks

Dr. Michael Baum

International Center for Agricultural
Research in the Dry Areas

ThemeThe marginal region is the place where one or more of the factors necessary for plant
production do not reach the level of the requirement. To achieve the goal to produce
the necessary amount of crops under the changing climate, we need to extensively
improve the crop varieties combining knowledge and technologies of molecular biology, genetics, physiology, informatics, modeling, and others. This satellite symposium is
aimed to exchange the research activities among researchers studying cereals, pulses,
and root symbiotic microbes, and know the present status and prospects to develop
marginal regions for sustainable crop production.

Chair
Mohan Chandra Saxena is a prominent scientist in the field of crop
physiology, soil-water-plant relations, pulses agronomy, dryland agriculture who served as assistant director general and senior advisor
to the director general at ICARDA. He is a fellow of Indian Society ofAgronomy, Indian Society of Pulses Research and Development andAmerican Society of Agronomy. He is a recipient of many awards andhonors such as Swaminathan Award for Leadership in Agriculture(2012) and Lifetime Achievement Award, Indian Soceity of Pulses Research & Development (2017).

Speakers
Hisashi Tsujimoto is Vice Director and professor of Arid Land Research Center (ALRC), Tottori University where he conducts and supervises research related to general genetics, cytogenetics andbreeding science with the emphasis on what breeding.
He is currently leading a Science and Technology Research Partnership for Sustainable Development (SATREPS) project on developmentof climate change resilient innovative technology for sustainable
wheat production in partnership with Sudan.
Ryosuke Mega is postdoctoral researcher of ALRC, Tottori University. He is a crop scientist using plant physiological and molecular biological approach.
He found the mechanism to save water consumption of plant andestablished “water-saving drought tolerant” wheat. He is currently
researching multiple stress (heat and drought) tolerant wheat .

Filippo Bassi is senior scientist leading ICARDA's durum wheat
breeding program, which aims to deliver superior varieties
with increased yields under changing climate. He works in therural areas of Ethiopia, India, Senegal, Mauritania, Lebanon,Algeria, and Tunisia to improve the local plant scientists’ capacity.
Takayoshi Ishii is junior associate professor of ALRC, Tottori
University. At ALRC, he works on plant cytogenetics for crop
improvement. Especially, he is interesting about 1. Elucidationof chromosome elimination mechanism in hybrid plants, 2.
Germplasm enhancement by wide hybridization and 3. Acceleration of breeding by manipulation of centromere-specifichistone H3 variant (CENH3).
Shiv Kumar Agrawal leads ICARDA’s Food legumes program,which aims to deliver improved germplasm of lentil, kabuli
chickpea, faba bean, and grass pea to national partners inSouth Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, West Asia, and North Africa. Heworks on developing short-duration, climate-smart varieties oflentil and grass pea with high iron and zinc content for sustainable intensification of cereal-based cropping systems.
Takeshi Taniguchi is an Associate Professor of ALRC, Tottori
University. He works on the ecology, function and applicationof plant symbiotic microorganisms in drylands. His current research focuses on the finding of effective root endophytic microbes for agriculture and ecosystem restoration using metagenome and network analyses.
Ramesh Verma is a principal scientist with ICARDA's biodiversity and crop improvement program. He works on barley improvement for abiotic- and biotic-stress tolerance. His researchalso involves the improvement of the malting quality of barley
and its nutrition, as well as molecular markers and QTL identification for barley diseases.
Michael Baum is director of ICARDA’s Biodiversity and CropImprovement program comprising 30 scientists and 67 technical staff whose work range from crop breeding and cereal
and legume pathology to virology and pollinators.
Since joining ICARDA in 1992 as biotechnologist, he has overseen ICARDA’s biodiversity and crop management work in a
number of countries across the MENA region.