DAY 3 – WEDNESDAY, 11 APRIL 2018
| 07:30 – 17:30 | Registration Registration Foyer |
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| 08.30 – 10:00 | Plenary Presentations Hall A & B sponsored by OZ Sorghum |
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| 08:30 – 09:15 | O565 Can sorghum meet the bread needs of 21st century consumers? Prof. John R.N. Taylor University of Pretoria, South Africa |
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| 09:15 – 10:00 | O355 Tackling key issues for smallholder farmers: The farmer research network approach Prof. Bettina Haussman University of Hohenheim, Germany |
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| 10:00 – 10:30 | Tea / Coffee Break Exhibition Area / Hall D |
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| 10:30 – 12:30 | Genomic Prediction and Statistics | Food Uses 4 | Food Security 1 |
| Hall A sponsored by OZ Sorghum |
Hall B sponsored by OZ Sorghum |
Hall C sponsored by United Sorghum Checkoff Programme |
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| Chairperson: Mark Cooper | Chairperson: Mathoto Thaoge | Chairperson: Eva Weltzien | |
| 10:30 | O278 Increasing the rate of genetic gain through the use of genomic selection in a low resource breeding program Gael Pressoir Chibas – Quisqueya University, Haiti |
O103 Bringing image analysis into the lab: imaging Ethiopian injera for quality Glen Fox The University of Queensland, Australia |
O344 Improving productivity of sorghum using principles of agroecological intensification in West Africa P.V. Vara Prasad Kansas State University, USA |
| 10:50 | O73 Genomic prediction for grain yield in sorghum Colleen Hunt The University of Queensland, Australia |
O47 Extrusion of sorghum – cowpea based high protein gluten free pasta: process and product characteristics Kalep Filli Research Institutes of Sweden, Federal University of Technology Yola, Sweden |
O365 Participatory gender analysis of sorghum production in major sorghum growing areas of Ethiopia Yeshi Chiche Kansas State University, USA |
| 11:10 | O151 Use of kinship matrices blending pedigree and genomic-based relatedness for prediction of parental line breeding values in sorghum Julio G. Velazco Wageningen University and Research, Netherlands |
O309 Comparison of waxy and non-waxy sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) with high protein digestibility traits and teff (Eragrostis tef) in Ethiopian injera making performance Kebede Abegaz Hawassa University, Ethiopia |
O96 Securing food and nutrition security of households in western Kenya through agro-ecological intensification with suitable sorghum-legume production system Beatrice Were Rongo University, Kenya |
| 11:30 | O379 Building a genomic selection breeding system for salinity tolerant biomass sorghum Hiroyoshi Iwata The University of Tokyo, Japan |
O123 Relationship between waxy (high amylopectin) and high protein digestibility (HD) traits in sorghum and dough-based (injera and biscuit) product quality Abadi Gebre Mezgebe University of Pretoria; Hawassa University, Ethiopia |
O336 Integrated approach for enhancing productivity and nutrition for smallholder sorghum producers Tesfaye Tesso Kansas State University, USA |
| 11:50 | O189 Advanced methods of statistical analysis for multi-environment trial data enhanced genetic gain in the Ethiopian sorghum research breeding program Yohannes Fekadu EIAR, Ethiopia |
O11 Grain and flour quality of Ethiopian sorghum in respect of their Injera making potential Senayit Yetneberk EIAR, Ethiopia |
O148 Bio fortified sorghum technical development and optimization Ping Che, Jim Gaffney Dow DuPont Pioneer, USA |
| 12:10 | O132 Evaluation of grain yield stability and adaptation of sorghum hybrids in the semi arid areas of Kenya based on AMMI and GGE models Patrick Sheunda ICRISAT-Nairobi, Kenya |
O181 Effects of roasting time of sorghum grains on the phenolic concentration, antioxidant activity and browning index of their flours Olalekan Adebowale University of Pretoria, South Africa |
O337 Constraints and opportunities for sorghum upscaling in Zimbabwe Conrad Murendo and Kizito Mazvimavi ICRISAT, Zimbabwe |
| 12:30 – 14:00 | Lunch Break & Poster Session Exhibition Area / Hall D |
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| 13:00 |
Technical Tour Departures Departure from Century City Conference City Main Entrance |
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| 14:00 | Special Regional Interest Session: Sorghum in sub-Saharan Africa | Special Session: International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), special session on improvement of post-rainy sorghum | Exhibitor Session |
| Hall A sponsored by OZ Sorghum |
Hall B sponsored by OZ Sorghum |
Hall C | |
| Chairperson: Gyebi Duodu | Chairpersons: Vincent Vadez and Andy Borrell | Chairperson: Wiana Louw | |
| 14:00 | Feedback on the DST pre-conference sorghum workshop Mathoto Thaoge Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa |
Introduction and overview of the session and ACIAR project Vincent Vadez IRD, France |
Opportunities for extrusion in feeding Africa LJ Grobler CFAM Technologies, South Africa |
| 14:10 | O573 An overview of the stay-green trait in sorghum: Physiological and molecular aspects Andrew Borrell The University of Queensland, Australia |
World’s fastest NIR analysis of sorghum and sorghum products Malcolm Holman AE Solutions, South Africa |
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| 14:20 | O205 Supporting smallholder farmers to participate in commercial sorghum production and marketing through the “aggregator model” Nehemiah Mugutha Africa Harvest Biotechnology Foundation International, Kenya |
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| 14:40 | O550 Sorghum – on the road to Super-Graindom Fru Nche Tiger Brands, South Africa |
O574 Outputs from the physiological studies on sorghum stress adaptation, specific to conditions in India Vincent Vadez IRD, France |
Monitoring natural toxins and pesticide residue in the supply chain: Technologies and tools that assist in complying to current regulations Willem Joubert Microsep, South Africa |
| 15:00 | O516 Potential application of extrusion for the processing of sorghum foods in South Africa LJ Grobler CFAM Technologies, South Africa |
O575 Modelling of the GxExM interactions to help maximize productivity and quality to inform breeding Jana Kholova ICRISAT, India |
Benefits and importance of NIR technology in grain quality analysis Michael Vinther Moller Foss Analytics, Denmark |
| 15:20 – 16:00 | Tea Break Exhibition Area / Hall D |
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| 16:00 | O20 Healthy SMA2RT snacks from climate-smart sorghum Riette de Kock University of Pretoria, South Africa |
O576 Quality aspects of the stay-green technology: QTL influence on quality traits Michael Blummel |
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| 16:20 | O291 Visualising big data: Sorghum in social media Victoria Jideani Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa |
O577 Ex-ante assessment and refinement of the ex-ante study showing the importance of clearly defining the breeding product Jana Kholova ICRISAT, India |
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| 16:40 | Panel Discussion | O578 Progress with BCNAM population breeding David Jordan The University of Queensland, Australia |
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| 17:00 | Integrating markers into breeding pipelines Jean-Francois Rami CIRAD, France |
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| 17:20 | Introgression work/breeding, multi-environment testing /comparison, markers usage during introgression Santosh Deshpande / R Madhusudhana ICRISAT, India |
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| 17:40 | Multi-location evaluation of stay-green introgressions Harvinder Singh Talwar ICAR-IIMR, India |
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| 18:00 | The Malian experience using MARS/BCNAM for breeding improved sorghum cultivars Niaba Teme / Jean-Francois Rami CIRAD, France |
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| 18:20 | Closing Remarks Vincent Vadez IRD/ICRISAT, France, Eric Hunter ACIAR, Vilas Tonapi, ICAR-IIMR, India |
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| 18:30 – 20:00 | Conference Mixer Tigers Milk – The Square, Century City |
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*Kindly note that this programme is subject to change