Xu Liu

Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences（CAAS）

Wheat improvement in China, progress and challenges

Bram Govaerts

International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, CIMMYT

CIMMYT’s Wheat Research Priorities and Global Impact

Alison Bentley

International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, CIMMYT

What’s next for global wheat?

Shenggen Fan

China Agricultural University

Technologies, Policies, and Institutions to Transform the Wheat Sector for Human and Planetary Health

Manuel Spannagl

Helmholtz Center Munich

The pan-transcriptome defines the core and shell genome of bread wheat

Caixia Gao

Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Editing powdery mildew disease resistance in wheat

Brande B.H. WULFF

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)

Sustainable control of disease resistance – the case for GM wheat 

Julie King

The University of Nottingham

Wheat/wild relative introgression and the delivery of new genetic variation for wheat

Yijing Zhang

School of Life Sciences, Fudan University

Evolutionary rewiring of the wheat transcriptional regulatory network by lineage-specific transposable elements

Lee Hickey

The University of Queensland

Breaking the nexus: breeding technologies to improve the sustainability of wheat

Dong Jiang

Nanjing Agricultural University

Substrate supply determines the establishment of protein and starch gradients during development of wheat grain

Chuang Zhao

China Agricultural University

Field warming experiments shed light on the wheat yield response to temperature in China

Guangmin Xia

School of Life Science, Shandong University

Allelic variation in TaWD40-4B.1 is associated with drought tolerance in wheat

Peter Shewry

Rothamsted Research

Improving wheat grain quality for sustainability and health

Weining Song

Northwest A&F University

Towards answering the pivotal questions in the domestication of wheat

Senthold Asseng

Technical University Munich

Wheat and climate change