Presentations Meetings Versailles June 8-11 2021 of WP4 and WP5.

During these 4 days we welcomed high level speaker. Most of the presentations can be viewed via the links below. 

Day 1 WP4

• Introduction to Cropbooster P and aims of the meeting; Norbert Rolland
• Green Deal & Farm-to-Fork Strategies of the EU; Cesar Gonzalez
• Y-1: Optimizing photosynthesis; Peter Westhoff
• Y-2: Improving sink-source relationships; Sylvie Dinant & Catherine Bellini
• Y-3: Optimizing shoot architecture and canopy; Patrick Laufs
• Y-4: Improving root architecture; Roberto Tuberosa
• Y-5: Adapting life histories to changing environments; Maria von Korff-Schmising
• N-1: Increasing protein content and quality; Jacques Le-Gouis
• N-1&N-4: Improving specialized metabolite contents; Massimilano Corso & Emmanuel Gaquerel
  & Loic Lepiniec
• N-3: Increasing omega-3 fatty acid content; Johnathan Napier
• N-5: Improving biomass digestibility; Hermanus Höfte
• S-6: Using plants for carbon sequestration; Andreas Weber
• S-2: Improving phosphorous uptake and use efficiency; Laurent Nussaume

Day 2 WP4

• S-3: Improving water uptake and use efficiency; Bertrand Muller
• S-4: Improving micronutrient uptake and use efficiency; Sebastien Thomine
• S-5: Improving heat tolerance; Pierre Martre
• S-1: Improving nitrogen uptake and use efficiency; Anne Krapp & Céline Masclaux-Daubresse
• Mission on Food; Gert Meijer
• JPI FACCE (Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change); Heather Mckhann
• CIRCASA (Coordination of International Research Cooperation on Soil Carbon Sequestration in
  Agriculture); Jean-François Soussana
• CSA ALL-Ready (Towards an European network on Agroecology Living Labs & Research
  Infrastructures); Heather Mckhann

Day 3 WP5

• Jeremy Harbinson: Introduction
• Short pitches
  • Pitch 1: The role of carbon dioxide as a signal as a substrate; Christine Foyer
  • Pitch 2: Future proofing crops; Rebetzke
• Resilience: Improving resilience in crops - can we combine yield with resilience; Matthew Paul
• Resilience: How to improve plant resilience to stress: lessons from nutrient homeostatic
  interactions; Hatem Rouached
• Limits to yield: Drivers of crop yield variability and change: analyses through support of modelling; Frank Ewert
• Limits to yield: Aligning crop modelling with plant breeding and genetics; Laura Dixon/Andy Challinor
• Phenotyping: Imaging root-soil interactions; Sacha Mooney
• Phenotyping: Multi scale phenotyping for crop performance in precise environmental scenarios: combining phenomics in controlled conditions with multi-site field experiments; Francois Tardieu
• Phenotyping: Phenotyping for root system architecture in the circular genomics era; Roberto Tuberosa
• Phenotyping: Our road to the future of phenomics: The actors are Neutron, Raman and X-Ray; Martin Trtilek
• Limits to Yield: Crop yields and opportunities for their increase in Europe; Martin van Ittersum
• Limits to Yield: Yield limiting physiological traits across different environments; Matthew Reynolds:

Day 4 WP5

• Short Pitched
  • Drought stress; Bill Davies 
  • Stephen Long
• Future Breeding options: Genome editing: promises and limitations for plant breeding; Peter
  Rogowsky
• Future Breeding options: Precision breeding for complex traits using NBTs - from research to applications; Michele Morgante
• Future crops: More species and functional diversity to boost provision of production and ecosystem services in agricultural systems; Christian Huyghe
• Future climate: Climate impacts on crop yields and adaptation potentials – What do the recent projections say; Christian Folbarth
• Future climate: TBA; Jean-François Soussana
• Limits to yield: Factors limiting the yield of some field crops and prospects for improvement; Jean-Pierre Cohan
• Limits to yield: Resource limits on crop grain yield; Thomas Sinclair
• Making use of natural variation: Boosting or balancing breeding for yield, resilience and sustainability; Alison Bentley
• Making use of natural variation: Use of genomic selection to enrich the genetic diversity of breeding programs; Alain Charcosset