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Program of 6th Festulolium Working Group Workshop ( download in .pdf)

Day 1: Tuesday April 5

8:30 Departure from Arigone hotel

9:00-9:20 Opening of Workshop

9:20-10:00 Invited talk: Beat Boller (Agroscope, Switzerland): Potential and limits of breeding hybrid ryegrass, a commercially successful forage species hybrid.

Session I: Breeding, phenotyping and physiology (Chairman: Liv Østrem)

10:00-10:05 Grazina Statkeviciute (LRCAF Institute of Agriculture, Lithuania): Festulolium breeding in Lithuania: an overview.

10:05-10:10 Joost Baert (ILVO, Belgium): Comparison of Festulolium as mid-term ley for silage with other cool season grasses.

10:10-10:15 Dejan Sokolovic (Institute of Forage Crops, Serbia): Summer persistency of different Festulolium hybrids in Serbian climate.

10:15-10:20 Stanislav Hejduk (Mendel Univeristy, Czech Republic): The differences among root systems of Festuloliums and the parent species.

10:20-10:25 Vilma Kemesyte (LRCAF Institute of Agriculture, Lithuania): Winter survival evaluation of the Lithuanian Festulolium cultivars.

10:25-10:30 Stephan Hartman (Bavarian State Research Center for Agriculture, Germany): Widening the genetic diversity of Bavarian meadow fescue (Festuca pratensis HUDS.) genepool by introgression of perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.)

10:30-10:35 Kakha Nadiradze (AFRD, Georgia): Plants in vitro biobanking.

10:35-11:15 Coffee break

Session II: Ecology and breeding (Chairman: Vladimír Černoch)

11:15-11:40 Mike Humphreys (IBERS, Wales): Developing climate-smart grasslands.

11:40-12:05 John Harper (IBERS, Wales): Festulolium hybrids in a changing climate, what can they offer? A story from the flood plains to the high mountains.

12:05-13:05 Lunch

13:05 Departure to DLF Hladké Životice

13:50 Arrival to Hladké Životice

13:50-15:15 Visit of DLF Hladké Životice

15:15-16:00 Coffee break

16:15 Departure to Hynčice

16:45 Arrival to Hynčice

16:45-17:45 Visit of birthplace of G. J. Mendel

18:00-21:00 Conference Dinner

21:15 Departure to Olomouc

22:00 Arrival to Olomouc

Day 2: Wednesday April 6

8:30 Departure from Arigone hotel

9:00-9:40 Invited talk: Bruno Studer (ETH, Switzerland): Recent advances in genomics – time for a forage grass genome initiative?

Session III: Molecular biology, cytogenetics and cytometry (Chairman: Zbigniew Zwierzykowski)

9:45-9:50 Dimitra Loka (IBERS, Wales) How one stress might impact on another.

9:50-9:55 Veronika Burešová (Institute of Experimental Botany, Czech Republic): 3D organization of plant nucleus in interspecific hybrids.

9:55-10:00 Laiane Corsini Rocha (Federal University of Lavras, Brasil): Particularities in the behavior of 45S rDNA sites of Lolium and Festuca.

10:00-10:05 Tomasz Książczyk (Institute of Plant Genetics, Poland): Obtaining and cytogenetic identification of reciprocal hybrids between Festuca glaucescens × Festuca pratensis.

10:05-10:50 Coffee break

Session IV: Genomics and transcriptomics (Chairman: Marc Ghesquiere)

10:50-11:15 Eva Hřibová (Institute of Experimental Botany, Czech Republic): Comparative analysis of repetitive DNA in eight representatives of fescues and ryegrasses.

11:15-11:40 Mallikarjuna Rao Kovi (Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway): Festulolium transcriptome changes during cold acclimation, deacclimation and reacclimation.

11:40-12:05 Štěpán Stočes (Institute of Experimental Botany, Czech Republic): Gene expression in interspecific hybrids.

12:05-13:00 Lunch

Session V: Festulolium common trial (Chairman: Mike Humphreys)

13:00-13:45 Lab Tour

13:45-14:10 David Kopecký (Institute of Experimental Botany, Czech Republic): Genotyping of Festulolium.

14:10-14:35 Marc Ghesquiere (INRA, France): From phenotype to genotype: the case-study of a common field trial initiated through Eucarpia for promoting Festulolium breeding.

14:35-15:10 Coffee break

15:10-15:45 Vladimir Černoch (DLF Hladke Zivotice, Czech Republic): Results of multilocation X Festulolium trials

Scientific Programme:

Program of 6th Festulolium Working Group Workshop ( download in .pdf)

Day 1: Tuesday April 5

8:30 Departure from Arigone hotel

9:00-9:20 Opening of Workshop

9:20-10:00 Invited talk: Beat Boller (Agroscope, Switzerland): Potential and limits of breeding hybrid ryegrass, a commercially successful forage species hybrid.

Session I: Breeding, phenotyping and physiology (Chairman: Liv Østrem)

10:00-10:05 Grazina Statkeviciute (LRCAF Institute of Agriculture, Lithuania): Festulolium breeding in Lithuania: an overview.

10:05-10:10 Joost Baert (ILVO, Belgium): Comparison of Festulolium as mid-term ley for silage with other cool season grasses.

10:10-10:15 Dejan Sokolovic (Institute of Forage Crops, Serbia): Summer persistency of different Festulolium hybrids in Serbian climate.

10:15-10:20 Stanislav Hejduk (Mendel Univeristy, Czech Republic): The differences among root systems of Festuloliums and the parent species.

10:20-10:25 Vilma Kemesyte (LRCAF Institute of Agriculture, Lithuania): Winter survival evaluation of the Lithuanian Festulolium cultivars.

10:25-10:30 Stephan Hartman (Bavarian State Research Center for Agriculture, Germany): Widening the genetic diversity of Bavarian meadow fescue (Festuca pratensis HUDS.) genepool by introgression of perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.)

10:30-10:35 Kakha Nadiradze (AFRD, Georgia): Plants in vitro biobanking.

10:35-11:15 Coffee break

Session II: Ecology and breeding (Chairman: Vladimír Černoch)

11:15-11:40 Mike Humphreys (IBERS, Wales): Developing climate-smart grasslands.

11:40-12:05 John Harper (IBERS, Wales): Festulolium hybrids in a changing climate, what can they offer? A story from the flood plains to the high mountains.

12:05-13:05 Lunch

13:05 Departure to DLF Hladké Životice

13:50 Arrival to Hladké Životice

13:50-15:15 Visit of DLF Hladké Životice

15:15-16:00 Coffee break

16:15 Departure to Hynčice

16:45 Arrival to Hynčice

16:45-17:45 Visit of birthplace of G. J. Mendel

18:00-21:00 Conference Dinner

21:15 Departure to Olomouc

22:00 Arrival to Olomouc

Day 2: Wednesday April 6

8:30 Departure from Arigone hotel

9:00-9:40 Invited talk: Bruno Studer (ETH, Switzerland): Recent advances in genomics – time for a forage grass genome initiative?

Session III: Molecular biology, cytogenetics and cytometry (Chairman: Zbigniew Zwierzykowski)

9:45-9:50 Dimitra Loka (IBERS, Wales) How one stress might impact on another.

9:50-9:55 Veronika Burešová (Institute of Experimental Botany, Czech Republic): 3D organization of plant nucleus in interspecific hybrids.

9:55-10:00 Laiane Corsini Rocha (Federal University of Lavras, Brasil): Particularities in the behavior of 45S rDNA sites of Lolium and Festuca.

10:00-10:05 Tomasz Książczyk (Institute of Plant Genetics, Poland): Obtaining and cytogenetic identification of reciprocal hybrids between Festuca glaucescens × Festuca pratensis.

10:05-10:50 Coffee break

Session IV: Genomics and transcriptomics (Chairman: Marc Ghesquiere)

10:50-11:15 Eva Hřibová (Institute of Experimental Botany, Czech Republic): Comparative analysis of repetitive DNA in eight representatives of fescues and ryegrasses.

11:15-11:40 Mallikarjuna Rao Kovi (Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway): Festulolium transcriptome changes during cold acclimation, deacclimation and reacclimation.

11:40-12:05 Štěpán Stočes (Institute of Experimental Botany, Czech Republic): Gene expression in interspecific hybrids.

12:05-13:00 Lunch

Session V: Festulolium common trial (Chairman: Mike Humphreys)

13:00-13:45 Lab Tour

13:45-14:10 David Kopecký (Institute of Experimental Botany, Czech Republic): Genotyping of Festulolium.

14:10-14:35 Marc Ghesquiere (INRA, France): From phenotype to genotype: the case-study of a common field trial initiated through Eucarpia for promoting Festulolium breeding.

14:35-15:10 Coffee break

15:10-15:45 Vladimir Černoch (DLF Hladke Zivotice, Czech Republic): Results of multilocation X Festulolium trials

15:45-17:15 General discussion on the Festulolium common field trial

17:15-17:20 General conclusions and meeting closure

17:30 Departure to Olomouc city center

18:00-19:00 City Tour of Olomouc

19:00-22:00 Conference Dinner

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Registration: 5th February 2016

Abstract submission: 2nd March 2016