Presentations: DAY 2 – TUESDAY, 10 APRIL 2018

DAY 2 – TUESDAY, 10 APRIL 2018

DAY 1 – MONDAY, 9 APRIL 2018    |    DAY 2 – TUESDAY, 10 APRIL 2018    |    DAY 3 – WEDNESDAY, 11 APRIL 2018    |    DAY 4 – THURSDAY, 12 APRIL 2018

07:30 – 18:00	Registration Registration Foyer
08.30 – 10:00	Plenary Presentations Hall A & B sponsored by OZ Sorghum
08:30 – 09:15	O357 Sorghum breeding in the 21st century Prof. David Jordan University of Queensland, Australia
09:15 – 10:00	O568 Improving productivity and increasing profitability to expand opportunities across global markets Prof. Timothy J. Dalton Kansas State University & SMIL, USA
10:00 – 10:30	Tea / Coffee Break Exhibition Area / Hall D
10:30 – 12:30	Symposium 2 A Driver for Change: Sorghum’s Role in Global Markets	Phenomics	Abiotic Stress 2	Genetic Modification, Editing and Mutants
	Hall A sponsored by OZ Sorghum	Hall B sponsored by OZ Sorghum	Hall C sponsored by United Sorghum Checkoff Programme	Meeting Room 11
	Chairperson: Timothy J. Dalton	Chairperson: Mitch Tuinstra	Chairperson: Graeme Hammer	Chairperson: Hai-Chun Jing
10:30	O279 Current and future trends in human consumption uses of Australian sorghum Chris Blanchard Charles Sturt University, Australia	O34 Consortium for advanced sorghum phenomics (CASP) Jeff Dahlberg UC-ANR-KARE, USA	O64 Proteomics as a tool in sorghum and cereal quality and abiotic stress tolerance breeding Maryke Labuschagne University of the Free State, South Africa	O62 Genomics-informed GM and gene edited sorghum for improved grain quality and plant architecture Ian Godwin The University of Queensland, Australia
10:50	Use of sorghum in global food assistance and food security programmes Sajid Alavi Kansas State University, USA	O418 Phenomics at scale: driving advances in sorghum breeding with insights from diverse sensor platforms Nadia Shakoor Purdue University, USA	O251 Integrated strategies to enhance abiotic stress resilience in US sorghum Krishna Jagadish Kansas State University, USA	O297 High throughput genetic transformation of sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L.) Srinivas Belide CSIRO, Australia
11:10	O567 Grain sorghum use in functional food and beverages Earl Roemer Nu Life Market, USA	O86 Field phenotyping of sorghum breeding trials through proximal sensing technologies Andries B. Potgieter The University of Queensland, Australia	O61 Underpinning the stay-green trait in sorghum: The role of PIN genes in drought adaptation Andrew Borrell The University of Queensland, Australia	O10 Utilization of mutants and diverse germplasm in an applied sorghum breeding program Chad Hayes USDA-ARS, USA
11:30	O130 Hub-and-spoke food innovation model empowers rural women to drive markets and improve nutrition in West Africa Bruce Hamaker Purdue University, USA	O166 Utilising crop simulation models to augment high-throughput phenotyping and selection in biomass sorghums Scott Chapman The University of Queensland, Australia	O294 Enhancing dryland rainy season sorghum climate resilience and abiotic stress tolerance under Indian semi-arid tropical conditions Vara Prasad Kansas State University, USA	O404 More than defence: identifying primary roles for dhurrin using EMS mutants Ros Gleadow Monash University, Australia
11:50	Commercialising non-alcoholic sorghum beverages from age-old traditional recipes Grahame Osler Denmar Estates, South Africa	O315 Validation and implementation of unmanned aerial systems in a sorghum breeding program Nicholas Pugh Texas A&M University, USA	O212 Agronomic factors affecting dryland grain sorghum maturity and yield in the Western Great Plains USA Sally Jones Colorado State University, USA	O318 Sequence-Indexed Mutants for Functional Genomics and Crop Improvement of Sorghum Mitchell Tuinstra Purdue University, USA
12:10	Panel Discussion	O4 Disruptive chemical fingerprinting methodologies for precision sorghum agriculture Sophie Minori Uchimiya USDA-ARS-SRRC, USA	O157 Shrub intercropping in the sahel: a novel resource for bioirrigation and beneficial microorganisms to resist drought and optimize yields Richard Dick Ohio State University, USA	O237 The alkali spreading phenotype in sorghum: genes, alleles, starch gelatinization temperature, and starch structure Stefanie Griebel Purdue University, USA
12:30 – 14:00	Lunch Break & Poster Session Exhibition Area / Hall D
14:00 – 15:30	Symposium 2 A Driver for Change: Sorghum’s Role in Global Markets	Genomics 1	Abiotic Stress 3	Food Uses 2
	Hall A sponsored by OZ Sorghum	Hall B sponsored by OZ Sorghum	Hall C sponsored by United Sorghum Checkoff Programme	Meeting Room 11
	Chairperson: Timothy J. Dalton	Chairperson: Ian Godwin	Chairperson: Vara Prasad	Chairperson: Lewis Ezeogu
14:00	O304 Sorghum: A potential climate smart and resilient feed ingredient in broiler diets in Malawi Andrew Safalaoh Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Malawi	O351 Exploring the sorghum pan genome Todd Mockler Donald Danforth Institute, USA	O74 Genome wide association study for photosynthesis and chlorophyll fluorescence traits in sorghum under cold and drought stress Diego Ortiz INTA, Iowa State University Argentina	O147 Functional properties and sensory acceptance of extruded sorghum genotypes drink powders Davy William Hidalgo Chávez Embrapa Food Technology, Brazil
14:30	O249 Are millet and sorghum good alternatives to maize in layer’s feeds in Niger, West Africa Salissou Issa INRAN, Niger	O551 Sweet sorghum genomics and molecular breeding in China Hai-Chun Jing Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China	O366 Cold stress resilience at early seedling in sorghum determined by integrating aerial imagery and destructive phenotyping Anuj Chiluwal Kansas State University, USA	O274 Sorghum as a pilot crop to rethink bioeconomy towards an inclusive multi-knowledge sustainable model Sophia Alami CIRAD, France
14:50	O382 Opportunities and challenges in using sorghum forage to improve ruminant livestock productivity Adegbola Adesogan University of Florida, USA	O343 Improving sorghum adaptation in West Africa with genomics-enabled breeding Geoffrey Morris Kansas State University, USA	O48 Early planting and cold resiliency in sorghum: From seed to seed Yves Emendack USDA-ARS, USA	O208 Comparative functional properties of kafirin and zein visco-elastic “doughs” formed by simple coacervation at different acetic acid and protein concentrations Segun Oguntoyinbo University of Pretoria, South Africa
15:10	Panel Discussion	O437 Sorghum mini core collection: a source of multi-trait variation to meet challenge of climate change and for enhanced genetic gains Hari Upadhyaya ICRISAT, India	O423 Analysis of heterosis and combining ability over environments for cold tolerance in sorghum Ramsamy Perumal Kansas State University, USA	O288 An industrial perspective of breeding in sorghum- The need of the hour Vilas Tonapi ICAR-Indian Institute of Millets Research, India
15:30 – 16:00	Tea / Coffee Break Exhibition Area / Hall D
16:00 – 17:00	Three minute thesis competition (3MT) for graduate students Finals Meeting Room 8 + 9 Chairperson: Andy Borrell Sponsored by OZ Sorghum
16:00 – 17:30	Symposium 2 A Driver for Change: Sorghum’s Role in Global Markets	Genomics 2	Agronomy and Systems	Food Uses 3
	Hall A sponsored by OZ Sorghum	Hall B sponsored by OZ Sorghum	Hall C sponsored by United Sorghum Checkoff Programme	Meeting Room 11
	Chairperson: Timothy J. Dalton	Chairperson: Jurandir Magalhaes	Chairperson: Daniel Rodriguez	Chairperson: Gyebi Duodu
16:00	O255 Strengthening sorghum seed systems in Sub-Saharan Africa: Cases of Kenya and Mali Fred Rattunde TWECA Consulting, Germany Eva Weltzein Seeds and Diversity, Germany	O50 Mining the sorghum QTL landscape for complex trait dissection Emma Mace University of Queensland, Australia	O101 Use of agroecological techniques by smallholder farmers to improve sorghum productivity in Burkina Faso Georges Zomboudre Institute of Environment and Agricultural Research, Burkina Faso	O53 Comparison of bioactive phytochemical compositions, antioxidant capacity and glucose release inhibitory effects of white sorghums and several important grains Glen Fox Queensland Alliance for Agriculture & Food Innovation, Australia
16:30	Global common practices uniting the seed industry Jim Gaffney Dow DuPont Pioneer, USA	O126 Ethiopian sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench) genetic diversity and genome-wide association study (gwas) for agriculturally important traits Habte Nida Chikssa Purdue University, Ethiopia	O338 Integrating Genetics, Environment & Management for Higher Sorghum Yield Graeme Hammer The University of Queensland, Australia	O221 Doubling grain Fe and Zn concentration in sorghum to combat the micronutrient malnutrition in predominantly sorghum eating populations Ashok Kumar Are ICRISAT, India
16:50	Sorghum seed, cultivar development, supply and farmers awareness: Sudan Case Zubeir Ibrahim Nile Sun Seeds, Sudan	O57 The genetic architecture of seed size in Sorghum bicolour (L.) Moench Yongfu Tao The University of Queensland, Australia	O120 The advantage of fertilization strategies based on climate information to enhance sorghum production in Sahelian conditions Myriam Adam / Komla Ganyo CIRAD, France	O362 Tailored bioprocessing to enhance the quality of whole grain millet and sorghum products Ndegwa Maina University of Helsinki, Finland
17:10	Perspectives from a farmers’ cooperative in Niger Ali Aminou Fuma Gaskiya, Niger	O302 Recombination bin map(s) in Sorghum bicolor using multiple Recombinant Inbred Line populations Santosh Deshpande ICRISAT, India	O28 Farmers’ perceptions of sorghum production constraints and Striga control practices in semi-arid areas of Tanzania Emmanuel Justine Mrema Tumbi Agriculture Research Institute, Tanzania
17:30	Sorghum European Perspectives:  Building an efficient organisation: Innovation – collect – trading – processors – end users Frederic Guedj EURALIS SEMENCES, France
17:40	Panel Discussion
17:45 – 18:45	Student Meet and Greet Meeting Room 8 + 9
18:45 for 19:00 NB the audience must be seated by 18:50	South African National Research Foundation – Science for Society Lecture and Panel Discussion Hall B

*Kindly note that this programme is subject to change