8:00 Registration
8:50 Welcome address by National Chung Hsing University President Fuh-Jyh Jan
09:00 Yrjö Helariutta (Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge University, U.K.)
Understanding morphogenesis and functionality of phloem cell-by-cell.
09:30 Ildoo Hwang (POSTECH, South Korea)
Epistructural Regulation by RNA G-Quadruplex in Plants.
10:00 Su-May Yu (Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan)
Roots of drought and flooding tolerance in rice.
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Masahi Yamada (Academia Sinica, Tainan, Taiwan)
The Function of a small peptide in root meristem development.
11:30 Ying-Chung Jimmy Lin (National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan)
Single-cell transcriptomics unveils xylem cell development and evolution.
11:50 Jun-Yi Yang (National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan)
Betalain synthesis in Djulis.
12:10 Wolfgang Zierer (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen, Germany)
Cassava Source-Sink Project –How to improve yield under low input conditions?
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Ekkehard Neuhaus (Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany)
Impact of intracellular sugar transport on plant properties.
14:00 Yi-Fang Tsay (Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan)
The roles of NRT1s in nitrate transport, signaling and utilization efficiency.
14:30 Woei-Jiun Guo (National Cheng-Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan)
Dynamic sugar efflux mediated by SWEET in roots for beneficial microbes.
14:50 Tzyy-Jen Chiou (Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan)
Maternal effect contributes to grain-filling defects of Ospho1;2 rice mutants.
15:10 Coffee break
15:40 Uwe Sonnewald (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen, Germany)
Advancing Heat-Tolerant Potato Varieties: A Multifaceted Approach.
16:10 Samuel Zeeman (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Neo-functionalized starch metabolic enzymes adopt new roles in the chloroplast.
16:40 Kuan-Jen Lu (Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan)
Redesign of carbon fixation cycle for increasesing photoproductivity.
17:10 Chie-Chen Huang (National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan)
Longevity Vitamins? Potentials of Biostimulant PQQ for “One Health.”
17:30 End of Symposium Day 1
18:30 Symposium dinner
09:00 Theresa Fitzpatrick (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
On future-proofing of vitamin B status in plants.
09:30 Wilhelm Gruissem (National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan)
Increasing micronutrient content in rice for human health.
10:00 Tuan-hua David Ho (Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan)
Role of a group of intrinsically disordered proteins as integrators for tolerance to biotic and abiotic stresses.
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 Ming-Der Yang (National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan)
AI applications in phenotyping.
11:20 Kuan-Te Li (Agricultural Technology Research Institute, Hsinchu City, Taiwan)
Biofortification of vitamin B6 in cassava, rice and tomato.
11:40 Jane Huang (CH Biotech, Taiwan)
Cultivating Solutions Towards Sustainability.
12:10 Kulaporn Boonyaves (Mahidol University, Thailand)
Optimizing Nutrient Mobilization as a Key to Sustainable Crop Improvement.
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Ismail Rabbi (International Institue for Tropical Agriculture, Nigeria)
Comparative metabolomics of Provitamin A biofortified and white root cassava (Manihot esculenta) germplasm and
relationship with dry matter content.
14:30 Onno Muller (Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany)
Photosynthesis phenotyping in the field under abiotic and biotic stress.
15:00 Shuen-Fang Lo (National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan)
From functional genomics study to sustainable rice quality improvements.
15:20 Coffee break
16:00 Edward Smith (Oxford University, U.K.)
Photorespiration – what is the best alternative?
16:30 Lukas Mueller (Cornell University, USA)
Learnings from 15 years of data management with Breedbase.
17:00 Choun-Sea Lin (Academia Sinica, Taipei)
Protoplast regeneration and gene editing.
17:20 Ihuoma Okwuonu (National Root Crops Research Institute, Nigeria)
Editing MeSweet10 gene for increased resistance to Cassava Bacterial Blight Disease.
17:40 Farewell address
Close of Symposium