Come and join us for the 4th EUCARPIA/ECO-PB Workshop on Implementing Plant-Microbe Interactions in Plant Breeding, on July 19 in Tulln (Vienna) as a satellite workshop of miCROPe, organised by FiBL, AIT and BonaPlanta and support of LiveSeeding.
When & where
19 July 2024, UFT Tulln(close to Vienna, Austria)
Workshop direction
Pierre Hohmann (BonaPlanta)
Valentin Gfeller (FiBL)
Friederike Trognitz (AIT)
Monika Messmer (FiBL)
Objectives
The workshop aims to establish and strengthen a network among plant breeders and scientists of different disciplines to explore the use of plant-microbe interactions in plant breeding.
Knowledge on plant genetic determinants for beneficial interactions with individual microbes (incl. biologicals) and entire communities is growing rapidly. However, the implementation of such knowledge in plant breeding is still in its infancy. Similarly, plant microbiome manipulation via the early introduction of biologicals (e.g. via seed treatments) offers great promise, but still suffers from variable outcomes.
The workshop is organised by the EUCARPIA Working Group on Plant-Microbe Interactions of the Section Organic and Low-Input Agriculture and will continue to discuss the potential and limitations of implementing its growing knowledge in plant breeding.
Keynote Speaker
Raffaella Balestrini (National Research Council, IT)
Title: Crop Breeding based on root traits and
associated microbes
Registration
https://micrope.org/registration_main.php* – June 21
Abstract submission
To pierre@bonaplanta.eu – May 17
*For workshop-only participants who do not attend miCROPe, please register by sending an email to pierre@bonaplanta.eu
Abstract format: Title, author names, affiliations, abstract text (300 words max)
Flyer – 4th Workshop on Implementing Plant-Microbe Interactions in Plant Breeding
