APSA, in collaboration with the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), The Indian Institute of Horticultural Research (IIHR) and Society for Promotion of Horticulture will be holding the 2022 Asian Solanaceous Round Table (ASRT-4) at ICAR-IIHR in Bangalore, India from the 11th - 13th of May 2022.
This 3-day event will feature keys topics, such as:
AGENDA
Day 1: Wednesday the 11th of May 2022
| TIME (GMT+5.30) | AGENDA / TOPIC | SPEAKER(S) |
| Inaugural Session | ||
| 13.00 | Registration | Dr. Smaranika Mishra and team |
| 15.00 | Ganesha Vandana | Dr. Umamaheshwari & Team |
| 15.10 | Master of ceremony call all key dignitaries on to the stage | Dr. Trilochan Mohapatra (Director General, ICAR) Dr. A.K. Singh (Deputy Director General (Horticulture), ICAR) Dr. Ramakrishnan M. Nair (Regional Director - South and Central Asia) Dr Vikramaditya Pandey, ADG (HS) Dr. B.N.S. Murthy (Director, ICAR-IIHR & Presdent, SPH) Dr. Manish Patel (Vice President, APSA) Dr. Seetharam Annadana, Chair, APSA R&D Dr. Conrado Balatero (Chair of ASRT-4 Organizing Committee and Member of APSA R&D Advisory Group) Dr. G. Radhakrishnan, Member, APSA R&D Advisory Group and Head of Breeding Region APAC Tropical, Nunhems India |
| 15.20 | Lighting the lamp | All Dignitaries |
| 15.30 | Welcome Address by APSA Vice President | Dr. Manish Patel (Vice President, APSA) |
| 15.40 | ASRT as a concept and PPP | Dr. Seetharam Annadana (Chair, APSA R&D Advisory Group) Dr. Kanokwan Chodchoey (Executive Director, APSA) |
| 16.00 | About ICAR-IIHR | Dr. B.N.S. Murthy (Director, ICAR-IIHR & Presdent, SPH) |
| 16.10 | A brief about SPH | Dr. C Aswath (Vice-President, SPH) |
| 16.15 | About MOU | Dr. Vikramaditya Pandey (ADG (HS), ICAR) |
| 16.20 | Signing of the MoU with ICAR | APSA & ICAR, Key office bearers |
| 16.30 | Opening Remarks | Dr. A.K. Singh (Deputy Director General (Horticulture), ICAR) |
| 16.40 | Presidential Address by DG | Dr. Trilochan Mohapatra (DG, ICAR) |
| 17.00 | Vote of Thanks | Dr K. Madhavi Reddy (Head, Division of Vegetable Crops, ICAR-IIHR) |
| 17.05 | High Tea | |
| 17.30 | Keynote Address on Solanaceous crops | Dr. Simon Jan de Hoop, Innovation Counsel and former Chief R&D Officer, East West Seed International and and Former Chair of APSA R&D Advisory Group |
| 18.30 | Felicitation to Dr. Surinder K. Tikoo, Director Research Tierra Seed Science & Senior Breeder and former member of APSA R&D Advisory Group), Dr. Simon Jan de Hoop, Innovation Counsel and former Chief R&D Officer of East West Seed and Former Chair of APSA R&D Advisory Group and Dr. Peter Hanson, Lead Scientist, Global Plant Breeding, World Vegetable Center. |
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Day 2: Thursday the 12th of May 2022
| TIME (GMT+5.30) | AGENDA / TOPIC | SPEAKER(S) |
| Session 1: Solanaceous Crops: Modern Breeding Techniques & Resistance to Diseases and Pests | Chair: Dr. Seetharam Annadana (Chair, APSA R&D Advisory Group and Global Sustainability Leader, Syngenta) Co-Chair: Dr. G. Radhakrishnan (Member, APSA R&D Advisory Group and Head of Breeding Region APAC Tropical, Nunhems India) |
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| 08.00 – 09.00 | Registration | |
| 09.00 – 09.30 | Genome assembly of stress tolerant wild species of tomato: Solanum sitiens and S. chilense | Dr. H.C. Prasanna, Principal Scientist, ICAR-IIHR |
| 09.30 – 10.00 | Pepper crop improvement program at ICAR-IIHR | Dr. K. Madhavi Reddy, Head, Division of Vegetable Crops, ICAR-IIHR |
| 10.00 – 10.30 | Pepper genetics and application of next generation breeding tools in breeding for disease resistance and other economically important traits of pepper | Dr. Byoung-Cheorl Kang, Professor, School of Plant Science and Center for Plant Molecular Genetics and Breeding Research, Seoul National University, South Korea |
| 10.30 – 10:50 | Refreshment break | |
| 10:50 – 11.20 | Interplay between Virus and plants trying to silence each others sytems | Dr. Supriya Chakraborty, Professor, School of Life Sciences, JNU |
| 11.20 – 11:50 | Genome characterization and host range studies of Cucumber mosaic virus belonging to the Subgroup IB infecting chilli in India and screening of chilli genotypes for identification of resistance | Dr. V.Venkataravanappa, Scientist (Plant Pathology), Division of Crop Protection ICAR_IIHR |
| 11:50 – 12.20 | Emerging viruses & viroid diseases in solanaceous vegetable crops and application of diagnostics in international movement of seeds - Presentation Part 1 - Presentation Part 2 |
Dr. M. Krishna Reddy, Principal Scientist and Head, Division of Crop Protection, ICAR_IIHR |
| 12.20 – 12.40 | Q&A Session | |
| 12.40 – 13.40 | Lunch | |
| Session 2: Genomics & Genome Editing | Chair: Dr. KV Ravishankar (Principal Scientist, Division of Biotechnology, IIHR) Co-chair: Mr. Shreeshail Hadapad, Member, APSA R&D Advisory Group, Indo-American Hybrid Seeds (India) Pvt. Ltd. |
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| 13:40 - 14.10 | Gene editing in tomato: Manipulating fruit size and other traits | Dr. Roland Schafleitner, Flagship Leader of Vegetable Diversity and Improvement, World Vegetable Center |
| 14.10 – 14.40 | New breeding techniques (NBTs) for sustainable and climate-resilient tomato production | Dr. Eswarayya Ramireddy, Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Tirupati |
| 14.40 – 15.10 | Imparting recessive resistance to viruses by genome editing in chilli | Dr. Manamohan Malligeppagol, Principal Scientist, ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticultural Research, Bangalore |
| 15.10 – 15.30 | Refreshment break | |
| 15.30 – 16.00 | Dr. D C Lakshmana Reddy, Senior Scientist, ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticultural Research, Bangalore | |
| 16.00 - 16.20 | Q&A Session | |
| Session 3: Germplasm Diversity and Plant Variety Protection | Chair: Dr Vikramaditya Pandey (ADG (HS), ICAR) Co-chair: Dr Srinivasan Ganeshan (Expert Frozen Pollen Technology Former Head of the Division of Genetic Resources) |
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| 16.20 – 16.50 | The world’s first CRISPR tomato launched to a Japanese market: the impact of its implementation on genome editing technology | Dr. Hiroshi Ezura, Director, Plant Innovation Research Center, University of Tsukuba (online) |
| 16.50 – 17.20 | How the new variety can be registered under the PPV&FR act and/or the service provided by ICAR regards new plant variety development | Dr. P.E. Rajasekharan (Principal Scientist, Division of Plant Genetic Resources, ICAR-IIHR) |
| 17.20 - 17.50 | Securing and Protecting Breeders Rights in Indian Plant Variety Protection System under PPV&FR Act, 2001 | Dr. T. K. Nagarathna, Registrar, PPV&FR Authority, Ministry of Agriculture, New Delhi |
| 17.50 – 18.20 | G2P-SOL Project: Introgression Breeding in Solanaceous Crops and the Use of Crop Wild Relatives in Crop Improvement in Solanum | Prof. Jaime Prohens, Director, Instituto Universitario de Conservación y Mejora de la Agrodiversidad Valenciana (COMAV), Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain (online) |
| 18.20 - 18.40 | Q&A Session | |
Day 3: Friday the 13th of May 2022
| TIME (GMT+5.30) | AGENDA / TOPIC | SPEAKER(S) |
| Session 4: Breeding for Biotic and Abiotic Stress | Chair: Dr. N.K. Krishna Kumar (Former DDG (Horticulture) Co-chair: Dr. K.S. Shivashankara (Principal Scientist and Head, Division of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, IIHR) |
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| 09.00 – 09.30 | Tospovirus scenario in Indian sub-continent with the accidental introduction of invasive WFT (Frankliniella occidentalis) | Dr. R. Asokan, Principal Scientist (Agricultural Entomology), Division of Basic Sciencest, IIHR |
| 09.30 – 10.00 | Outlooks and perspectives on breeding for thrips resistance in chilli | Dr. Derek Barchenger, Vegetable Breeder-Pepper, World Vegetable Center |
| 10.00 – 10.30 | Thrips Parvispinus: Identity, Bioecology and Pest Status | Dr. Rachana R.R., Scientist, ICAR-NBAIR, Bangalore |
| 10.30 - 10.40 | Q&A Session | |
| 10.40 – 11.00 | Refreshment break | |
| Session 5: The Past and the Future of Bacillus Thuringiensis (Bt) in Eggplant | Chair: Dr. Conrado Balatero, Chair, ASRT 4 Organizing Committee and Member of R&D AG, APSA/Group Head - Breeding, East-West Seed Co-chair: Ms. Kunaporn Phuntunil, Technical Coordination Manager, APSA |
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| 11.00 – 11.30 | Bt eggplant ‘EE-1’ for direct use as food, feed, or for processing (FFP) | Dr. Desiree Hautea, Researcher, College of Agriculture and Food Science, University of the Philippines Los Baños, Philippines |
| 11.30 – 12.00 | Bt Eggplant - The Prospects and Impediments in the context of Bangladesh | Mr. Mahbub Anam, Managing Director of Lal Teer Seed Lts. |
| 12.00 – 12.30 | Resistance Management for the brinjal Fruit & Shoot Borer in Bt Brinjal | Dr. Govind Gujar, Head of Division of Entomology (retired), ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute |
| 12.30 – 13.00 | Experience of developing indigenous GM products: Make in India Bt. Brinjal | Dr. Nandkumar Kunchge, Director, Kalash Seeds Pvt. Ltd. India |
| 13.00 - 13.10 | Q&A Session | |
| 13.10 – 14.00 | Lunch | |
| Session 6: Application of AI and Digital Technology for High Throughput Phenotyping | Chair: Dr. Roland Schafleitner, Flagship Leader of Vegetable Diversity and Improvement, World Vegetable Center Co-chair: Dr R.H. Laxman, Principal Scientist, Division of Basic Sciences, ICAR-IIHR |
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| 14.00 – 14.30 | AI in the omics world: Disentangle heat tolerance across the temperature gradient | Dr. Lin Ya Ping, Postdoctoral Scientist in Breeding and Bioinformatics, World Vegetable Center |
| 14.30 – 15.00 | Breeding for heat tolerance using Amphasys' impedance flow cytometry | Dr. Darío Sánchez Castro, Pollen Expert, Amphasys, Switzerland |
| 15.00 – 15.30 | Robust seed germination, vigor and usable plant upgrade using AI and vision systems | Dr. Sarel Ashkenazy, Founder & CEO, Seed-X, Israel (online) |
| 15.30 – 16.00 | High throughput phenotyping for acquired drought tolerance traits in traits and how phenotyping can help accelerate breeding for crop improvement | Prof. Sheshshayee M. Sreeman, University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, India |
| 16.00 - 16.10 | Q&A Session | |
| 16.10 – 16.30 | Refreshment break | |
| Breakout Sesssion: 7A - Technology platform demonstration, training needs and PPP (Auditorium) | Chair: Dr. Seetharam Annadana Chair, APSA R&D Advisory Group) Co-Chair: Dr. Conrado Balatero, Chair, ASRT 4 Organizing Committee and Member of R&D AG, APSA/Group Head - Breeding, East-West Seed |
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| 16.30 - 17.00 | 7A: Tech Platform Demonstration - Amphasys | Dr. Darío Sánchez Castro, Pollen Expert, Amphasys, Switzerland |
| 17.00 - 17.30 | 7A: Tech Platform Demonstration - Phenome Networks Ltd. | Mr. Amnon Grossberger, Senior Account Manager, Phenome Networks Ltd. (online) |
| 17.30 - 18.00 | 7A: Public Private Partnership - IIHR | Dr. B.N,S. Murthy, Director, IIHR |
| 18.00 - 18:30 | 7A: The APSA – WorldVeg Vegetable Breeding Consortium - PPP | Dr. Marco Wopereis, Director General, World Vegetable Center (presented by Dr. Roland Schafleitner) |
| Breakout Sesssion: 7B - Technology platform demonstration, training needs and PPP (Conference Room) | Chair: Dr. Surender K. Tikoo, Director Research Tierra Seed Science & Senior Breeder and former member of APSA R&D Advisory Group Co-Chair: Dr. Shreeshail Hadapad, Member, APSA R&D Advisory Group, Indo-American Hybrid Seed Pvt. Ltd. |
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| 16.30 - 17.00 | 7B: Tech platform Demonstration – Agdhi | Mr. Nikhil Das, Co-Founder & CEO, Agdhi |
| 17.00 - 17.30 | 7B: Tech Platform Demonstration – Seed X | Dr. Sarel Ashkenazy, Seed-X Founder & CEO (online) |
| 17.30 - 18.00 | 7B: Training needs - ATPBR | Dr. Sharan Angadi, ATPBR |
| 18.00 - 18:30 | 7B: Training needs - Sathguru | Prof. K. Vijayaraghavan, Sathguru |