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ARAB 2009 Conference Proceedings
MONDAY 14th September | |
Field Tour - Visiting Goldacres (Ballarat), Lunch Dunkeld, Field tour or variety and agronomic sites | |
Registration and pre-dinner drinks | |
Welcome BBQ dinner at Argentinian Grill, Mercure Hotel, Ballarat (Sponsored by GRDC) | |
TUESDAY 15th September | |
Registration | |
Wayne Burton: | Conference House Keeping & Welcome |
Brondwen MacLean: | GRDC overview |
Session 1: Brassica Challenges and PerspectivesChair: Brondwen MacLean (GRDC) | |
Trent Potter: |
Situation statement for oilseed Brassica production in Australia |
Arvind Kumar: | |
Wang Hanzhong: | China progress and future directions |
Phil Salisbury: | |
MORNING TEA AND POSTERS (Sponsored by Nuseed) | |
Session 2: Agronomy for the changing climateChair: Rob Norton | |
Ben O'Connor: | |
Jeff McCormick: | |
Mohammad Amjad: | |
James Neilsen: | The impact of Roundup Ready® canola on the Australian Oilseed Industry |
Penny Riffkin: | The potential of winter canola types in the high rainfall zone of southern Australia |
LUNCH & POSTERS (Sponsored by ScanBi Diagnostics) | |
Session 3: DiseasesChair: Barbara Howlett (University of Melbourne) | |
Dilantha Fernando: (University of Manitoba) | Keynote Address — “Disease issues - priority research areas in North America” |
Rajender Singh: | Impact of sclerotinia stem rot on quality of Brassica juncea |
Dhiraj Singh: | |
Raj Kushal: | |
Ajit Rathi: | Integrated management of Alternaria blight and white rust in Indian mustard |
Vicki Elliot: | |
AFTERNOON TEA (Sponsored by Monsanto) | |
Session 4: Quality in the changing climateChair: Rod Mailer (AOF, NSW DPI) | |
Alan Green (CSIRO): | Keynote Address — “Changing Oils” |
Kamal Dhawan: | High temperature induced changes in antioxidative enzymes in Brassica juncea |
Abha Agnihotri: | |
RS Banga: | Quality and yield of Indian mustard genotypes as influenced by different fertility levels |
Shashi K Banga: | |
Jan Edwards: | The effect of sowing time on the yield and quality of canola Brassica napus – preliminary findings |
Wayne Burton: | Conference House Keeping |
Pre-dinner drinks Conference Dinner (Sponsored by AOF) | |
WEDNESDAY 16th September | |
Session 5: Breeding and Agronomy successes and challenges for the futureChair: Rob Wilson (CAA and Pioneer Hi-Bred) | |
Don McCaffery: | Brassica juncea - critical agronomy factors for the low rainfall zone of western NSW |
Madan Lal Chhabra: | Phytohormone induced amelioration of high temperature stress in Brassica juncea |
JS Chauhan: | Heat stress effects on morpho-physiological characters of Indian mustard (B. juncea L.) |
Maharaj Singh: | |
Gururaj Kadkol: | |
Trent Potter: | |
MORNING TEA (Sponsored by Pioneer Hi-Bred) | |
Session 6: Hybrid breeding successes and challenges for the futureChair: Greg Buzza (Nuseed) | |
Wang Hanzhong: | Heterosis and breeding of high oil content in rapeseed (Brassica napus L.) |
Ma Chaozhi: |
A promising way to produce B. napus hybrid seeds by self-incompatibility pollination mating system |
Hu Qiong: | Development of a restorer line for Nsa CMS and molecular marker linked to the fertility restoration |
Fu Tingdong: | Considerations on heterosis utilization in rapeseed (Brassica napus) |
LUNCH and POSTER SESSION | |
Session 7: Molecular Breeding for the changing climateChair: David Luckett (NSW DPI) | |
Surinder Banga: | |
Sheng Chen: | |
Jacquie Batley: | Genetic and morphological diversity in the Brassicas and wild relatives |
Chris Duran: | |
Angela Van de Wouw: | |
Wallace Cowling: | Towards the application of association genetics to canola breeding |
Harsh Raman: | |
AFTERNOON TEA (sponsored by CBWA) | |
Session 8: Diseases and agronomy for the futureChair: Alan Mayfield (GRDC southern Panel) | |
Barbara Howlett: | Exploiting fungal genome sequences to develop novel approaches to disease control |
Steve Marcroft: | |
Pankaj Sharma: | Search for resistance to Sclerotinia sclerotiorum in exotic and indigenous Brassica germplasm |
Aanandini Ganesalingam: |
Long-term analysis of Australian canola variety resistance ratings 2002-2008 |
Felicity Pritchard: | |
Wayne Burton: |
Closing Address: Award of CBWA prize for Best Student Presentation |
Poster Papers | |
J. Sergio Moroni: | Quantifying the impact of high manganese (Mn) on canola under field conditions |
J. Sergio Moroni: | Variation in Normalized Difference Vegetative Index (NDVI) in canola germplasm |
J. Sergio Moroni: |
Measuring ‘wilting’ and ‘pod density’ of canola genotypes with an optical sensor unit (GreenSeeker) |
J. Sergio Moroni: | |
Arvind Kumar: | Eco-friendly management of Sclerotinia rot in Indian mustard (Brassica juncea) |
Shyama R. Weerakoon: |