MONDAY 14th September |
| Field Tour – Visiting Goldacres (Ballarat), Lunch Dunkeld, Field tour or variety and agronomic sites |
| Registration and pre-dinner drinks |
| Welcome BBQ dinner at Argentinian Grill, Mercure Hotel, Ballarat (Sponsored by GRDC) |
TUESDAY 15th September |
| Registration |
| Wayne Burton: | Conference House Keeping & Welcome |
| Brondwen MacLean: | GRDC overview |
Session 1: Brassica Challenges and PerspectivesChair: Brondwen MacLean (GRDC) |
| Trent Potter: | Situation statement for oilseed Brassica production in Australia |
| Arvind Kumar: | Canola cultivation in India- Scenario and future strategy |
| Wang Hanzhong: | China progress and future directions |
| Phil Salisbury: | Oilseed Brassica improvement in China, India and Australia |
| MORNING TEA AND POSTERS (Sponsored by Nuseed) |
Session 2: Agronomy for the changing climateChair: Rob Norton |
| Ben O’Connor: | Canopy management evaluation in Canola 2008 |
| Jeff McCormick: | Dual purpose canola – possibility or pipedream? |
| Mohammad Amjad: | Agronomic performance of new open-pollinated and hybrid canola cultivars to time of sowing in Western Australia |
| James Neilsen: | The impact of Roundup Ready® canola on the Australian Oilseed Industry |
| Penny Riffkin: | The potential of winter canola types in the high rainfall zone of southern Australia |
| LUNCH & POSTERS (Sponsored by ScanBi Diagnostics) |
Session 3: DiseasesChair: Barbara Howlett (University of Melbourne) |
| Dilantha Fernando: (University of Manitoba) | Keynote Address — “Disease issues – priority research areas in North America” |
| Rajender Singh: | Impact of sclerotinia stem rot on quality of Brassica juncea |
| Dhiraj Singh: | Comparison of Sclerotinia rot incidence and sclerotial formation in different rapeseed and mustard species |
| Raj Kushal: | Physiological specialization, host resistance and epidemiology of white rust and downy mildew disease complex in rapeseed and mustard – the research scenario in Haryana |
| Ajit Rathi: | Integrated management of Alternaria blight and white rust in Indian mustard |
| Vicki Elliot: | A Leptosphaeria biglobosa ‘canadensis‘ isolate induced resistance in Brassica juncea and Brassica napus against Leptosphaeria maculans |
| AFTERNOON TEA (Sponsored by Monsanto) |
Session 4: Quality in the changing climateChair: Rod Mailer (AOF, NSW DPI) |
| Alan Green (CSIRO): | Keynote Address — “Changing Oils” |
| Kamal Dhawan: | High temperature induced changes in antioxidative enzymes in Brassica juncea |
| Abha Agnihotri: | Genetic enhancement in rapeseed- mustard for quality and disease resistance through in vitro techniques |
| RS Banga: | Quality and yield of Indian mustard genotypes as influenced by different fertility levels |
| Shashi K Banga: | Breeding canola quality Indian mustard (Brassica juncea L.) |
| Jan Edwards: | The effect of sowing time on the yield and quality of canola Brassica napus – preliminary findings |
| Wayne Burton: | Conference House Keeping |
Pre-dinner drinks Conference Dinner (Sponsored by AOF) |
WEDNESDAY 16th September |
Session 5: Breeding and Agronomy successes and challenges for the futureChair: Rob Wilson (CAA and Pioneer Hi-Bred) |
| Don McCaffery: | Brassica juncea – critical agronomy factors for the low rainfall zone of western NSW |
| Madan Lal Chhabra: | Phytohormone induced amelioration of high temperature stress in Brassica juncea |
| JS Chauhan: | Heat stress effects on morpho-physiological characters of Indian mustard (B. juncea L.) |
| Maharaj Singh: | Drought induced changes in water use efficiency and other morpho- physiological characters in Indian mustard (Brassica juncea L.) |
| Gururaj Kadkol: | Brassica shatter-resistance research update |
| Trent Potter: | Comparison of historical canola varieties in Australia |
| MORNING TEA (Sponsored by Pioneer Hi-Bred) |
Session 6: Hybrid breeding successes and challenges for the futureChair: Greg Buzza (Nuseed) |
| Wang Hanzhong: | Heterosis and breeding of high oil content in rapeseed (Brassica napus L.) |
| Ma Chaozhi: | A promising way to produce B. napus hybrid seeds by self-incompatibility pollination mating system |
| Hu Qiong: | Development of a restorer line for Nsa CMS and molecular marker linked to the fertility restoration |
| Fu Tingdong: | Considerations on heterosis utilization in rapeseed (Brassica napus) |
| LUNCH and POSTER SESSION |
Session 7: Molecular Breeding for the changing climateChair: David Luckett (NSW DPI) |
| Surinder Banga: | An alternate procedure for re-synthesis of Brassica juncea |
| Sheng Chen: | Allelic diversity of a novel Brassica napus gene pool |
| Jacquie Batley: | Genetic and morphological diversity in the Brassicas and wild relatives |
| Chris Duran: | Sequencing and re-sequencing Brassica genomes |
| Angela Van de Wouw: | Determining frequencies of avirulence alleles in airborne inoculum of Leptosphaeria maculans using molecular assays |
| Wallace Cowling: | Towards the application of association genetics to canola breeding |
| Harsh Raman: | The Australian Canola Molecular Marker Program-An Update on mapping loci controlling resistance to blackeg in canola |
| AFTERNOON TEA (sponsored by CBWA) |
Session 8: Diseases and agronomy for the futureChair: Alan Mayfield (GRDC southern Panel) |
| Barbara Howlett: | Exploiting fungal genome sequences to develop novel approaches to disease control |
| Steve Marcroft: | Potential new management strategies for blackleg control |
| Pankaj Sharma: | Search for resistance to Sclerotinia sclerotiorum in exotic and indigenous Brassica germplasm |
| Aanandini Ganesalingam: | Long-term analysis of Australian canola variety resistance ratings 2002-2008 |
| Felicity Pritchard: | Better Oilseeds: Getting the message out |
| Wayne Burton: | Closing Address: Award of CBWA prize for Best Student Presentation |
Poster Papers |
| J. Sergio Moroni: | Quantifying the impact of high manganese (Mn) on canola under field conditions |
| J. Sergio Moroni: | Variation in Normalized Difference Vegetative Index (NDVI) in canola germplasm |
| J. Sergio Moroni: | Measuring ‘wilting’ and ‘pod density’ of canola genotypes with an optical sensor unit (GreenSeeker) |
| J. Sergio Moroni: | Carbon isotope discrimination in diverse canola germplasm |
| Arvind Kumar: | Eco-friendly management of Sclerotinia rot in Indian mustard (Brassica juncea) |
| Shyama R. Weerakoon: | Production and confirmation of hybrids through interspecific crossing between tetraploid B. juncea and diploid B. oleracea towards a hexaploid Brassica population |
