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DAY 1 – MONDAY, 9 APRIL 2018
| 07:00 – 18:00 | Registration Registration Foyer |
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| 09:00 – 10:00 | Welcoming Addresses and Opening Plenary Hall A & B |
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| Chairperson: Dr. Kingstone Mashingaidze | ||||
| 09:00 | Call to order and welcome Dr Kingstone Mashingaidze ARC, South Africa |
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| 09:10 | Welcome on behalf of the conference organising committees Prof. Timothy J. Dalton and Prof. John R.N. Taylor |
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| 09:25 | Conference opening addresses USAID Representative – Mr. John Groarke, USAID South Africa Mission Director University of Pretoria – Prof. Stephanie Burton, Vice Principal Research and Postgraduate Education DAFF Representative – Mr. R.M. Ramasodi, Acting Director General – South African Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries |
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| 10:00 | Conference Keynote Presentation O563 Prediction agriculture and the global food gap in the 21st century Prof. Mark Cooper ZenRun42, USA Sponsored by OZ Sorghum |
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| 11:00 – 11:30 | Tea / Coffee Break Exhibition Area / Hall D |
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| 11:30 | Plenary Presentation Hall A & B |
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| 11:30 | O548 Sorghum bioactives as functional and health promoting food ingredients Prof. Joseph Awika Texas A&M University, USA |
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| 12:15 | Session closing and pertinent conference details Dr Kingstone Mashingaidze ARC, South Africa |
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| 12:30 | Official conference photograph | |||
| 12:30 – 14:00 | Lunch Break & Poster Session Exhibition Area / Hall D |
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| 12:30 | Official conference photograph | |||
| 14:00 – 15:30 | Symposium 1 Productivity and Food Security for the Smallholder Farmer |
Applied Breeding 1 | Food Uses 1 | Biofuel 1 |
| Hall A sponsored by OZ Sorghum |
Hall B sponsored by OZ Sorghum |
Hall C sponsored by United Sorghum Checkoff Program |
Meeting Room 11 | |
| Chairperson: Leon du Plessis | Chairperson: Kingstone Mashingadze or Ramasamy Perumal | Chairperson: Agnes Mwangwela | Chairperson: Scott Sattler | |
| 14:00 | O554 Sorghum improvement among smallholder farmers in Africa Medson Chisi Zambia Seed Company, Zambia |
O252 Integration of new technologies to increase the rate of genetic gain in sorghum William Rooney Texas A&M University, USA |
O24 Nutritional and flavour properties of sweet sorghum syrups as compared to other commercial syrup sweeteners in the USA Gillian Eggleston USDA-ARS-SRRC, USA |
O201 Advances in developing sorghum hybrids for use as a feedstock for bioenergy production in Brazil Rafael Parrella, Robert Eugene Schaffert Embrapa Maize and Sorghum, Brazil |
| 14:30 | Panel Discussion Facilitator: Johan van Rooyen Representative from SA National Seed Organisation New sorghum seed technology and systems Representative from ICRISAT Sorghum R&D in semi-arid tropics Ashok Kumar Are Representative from Development Bank of Southern Africa Financing of farmers; lack of collateral Representative from Eastern Cape Department of Agriculture Focus on improvement of sorghum production under smallholder farmers Wiseman Goqwana Representative from Grain Farmer Development Association (GFADA) Development of black commercial sorghum farmers Ishmael Tshiame Representative from South African sorghum processors Sorghum markets and marketing opportunities Anton Nebe |
O36 Implementation of electronic data capture in EIAR sorghum breeding program Amare Seyoume EIAR, Ethiopia |
O345 Innovative way of making millet or sorghum couscous using a single screw mini-extruder for the West African market Moustapha Moussa, Bruce R Hamaker Purdue University, USA |
O44 Evaluation of advanced sorghum lines for bio-ethanol production related traits Nemera Shargie Agricultural Research Council of South Africa, South Africa |
| 14:50 | O433 New technology available for all sorghum farmers globally: Imidazolinone resistant sorghum hybrids Vicente Trucillo Advanta Seeds, Argentina |
O322 Effect of malted sorghum based porridge supplementation on the anthropometric and biochemical changes of infants and younger children with moderate acute malnutrition Richard Kajjura University of KwaZulu-Natal and Makerere University, Uganda |
O197 Analysing and modelling biomass accumulation in sorghum stem and its drought regulation at tissue and organ level – genotypic variability and implications for ideotype conception Delphine Luquet CIRAD, France |
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| 15:10 | O333 Diversity breeding within the Texas A&M sorghum breeding program David Horne Texas A&M University, USA |
O442 A nutrition-secure childhood for 6-24 months old infants and young children in South Africa: does the viscosity of sorghum and other complementary porridges limit nutrient intake? James Makame University of Pretoria, South Africa |
0296 Establishing sorghum as a novel bioenergy crop in temperate Europe: Breeding for chilling tolerant hybrids with an enhanced energy density Steffen Windpassinger IFZ Research Centre for Biosystems, Land Use and Nutrition, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany |
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| 15:30 – 16:00 | Tea / Coffee Break Exhibition Area / Hall D |
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| 16:00 – 17:30 | Symposium 1 Productivity and Food Security for the Smallholder and Emerging Commercial Sorghum Farmer |
Applied Breeding 2 | Abiotic Stress 1 | Biofuel 2 |
| Hall A sponsored by OZ Sorghum |
Hall B sponsored by OZ Sorghum |
Hall C sponsored by United Sorghum Checkoff Program |
Meeting Room 11 | |
| Chairperson: Leon du Plessis | Chairperson: Bettina Haussmann | Chairperson: Harvinder Talwar | Chairperson: Ashok Kumar Are | |
| 16:00 | Panel Discussion Representative from SA National Seed Organisation New sorghum seed technology and systems Representative from ICRISAT Sorghum R&D in semi-arid tropics Representative from Development Bank of Southern Africa Financing of farmers; lack of collateral Representative from Eastern Cape Department of Agriculture Focus on improvement of sorghum production under smallholder farmers Representative from Grain Farmer Development Association (GFADA) Development of black commercial sorghum farmers Representative from South African sorghum processors Sorghum markets and marketing opportunities Representative from AGRA Supporting smallholder sorghum farmers in Africa |
O33 The use of integrated technologies to improve the rate of genetic gain in the national sorghum breeding program in Ethiopia Taye Tadesse EIAR, Ethiopia |
O272 Translational genomics approaches to increase sorghum yield on acid soils Jurandir Magalhaes Embrapa Maize and Sorghum, Brazil |
O70 Tailoring lignin biosynthesis for emerging bioenergy and bio product applications Scott Sattler USDA-ARS, USA |
| 16:30 | O330 Farmer-participatory improvement and selection of sorghum genetic resources to multiple-stresses in the arid and semi-arid regions of Uganda Moses Biruma National Semi-Arid Resources Research Institute (NASARRI)-Serere, Uganda |
O109 Using nitrate accumulation and remobilisation in sorghum leaf sheaths to identify key genes as potential novel targets to improve nitrogen use efficiency Belinda Worland The University of Queensland, Australia |
O211 Advances in developing sweet sorghum cytoplasmic male sterile a and b-lines Nádia Nardely Lacerda Durães Parrella Embrapa Maize and Sorghum, Brazil |
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| 16:50 | O307 Improving sorghum productivity and grain quality using marker assisted recurrent selection (MARS) in Mali Jean-Francois Rami CIRAD, France |
O155 Harnessing the power of next generation sequencing (NGS) for unravelling arbuscular mycorrhiza community structure in some Sudanese sorghum genotypes Tilal Abdelhalim Agricultural Research Corporation, Sudan |
O384 Research and utilization of different cytoplasmic male sterility in sweet sorghum Zhang Fei Liaoning Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China |
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| 17:10 | O79 Development of photoperiod sensitive sorghum to mitigate climate risk in West-Africa Niaba Témé CIRAD, Mali |
O131 Introgression of shoot fly and post flowering drought tolerance QTLs into elite post-rainy season sorghum varieties through Marker assisted Backcross Breeding (MABB) Vijaya Kumar KV ICRISAT, India |
O76 Advancing sorghum hybrid breeding for smallholder farmers in West Africa: examinations of fertility restoration and combining ability in guinea-race germplasm Moctar Kante University of Hohenheim, Germany |
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| 17:30 – 18:30 | Poster Session Exhibition Area / Hall D |
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| 18:00 – 19:00 | Three minute thesis competition (3MT) for graduate students Hall A sponsored by OZ Sorghum |
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| 18:00 – 19:00 | Three minute thesis competition (3MT) for graduate students Hall B sponsored by OZ Sorghum |
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| 19:00 – 20:30 | Welcome Reception Exhibition Area / Hall D Sponsored by United Sorghum Checkoff Programme |
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*Kindly note that this programme is subject to change
