Session 5: Abiotic stressesChair: Wayne Burton |
| Amritbir Riar: | Sensitivity of canola yield to stress at different growth stages. |
| Yiming Guo: | Screening for drought tolerance in Brassica rapa: from genetic variation to gene expression. |
| Sheng Chen: | Drought and heat tolerance in Brassica rapa and B. napus at the early reproductive stage. |
| Wallace Cowling: | Breeding for drought and heat tolerance in canola – Brassica rapa as a model species. |
| Harsh Raman: | Understanding the genetic bases of phenotypic variation in drought tolerance related traits in canola (Brassica napus L.) |
Session 6: Genetic variation in breedingChair: Phil Salisbury |
| Babu Pandey: | Canopy Light Interception is an Alternative to Biomass Sampling in Juncea Canola Breeding. |
| DISCUSSION: | Abiotic stresses in canola. |
| Harsh Raman: | Genome-wide association for early plant vigour in canola. |
| Rosy Raman: | Exploring natural genetic variation for pod shatter resistance in Brassica species. |
| Heping Zhang: | Genotypic variation in water-soluble carbohydrate accumulation in canola and its contribution to seed yield. |
| Matthew Nelson: | Extreme transgressive segregation for thermal time to flowering in both short day and long day conditions discovered in a cross between Australian and European summer annual-type Brassica napus L. |
| Iain Searle: | EzyCross- a versatile platform technology to introduce agriculturally important traits from distant relatives into Canola. |
| DISCUSSION: | How can molecular breeding contribute to enhanced genetic variation? |
Session 7: QualityChair: Nick Goddard |
| Jamie Ayton: | Increasing the market value of canola through improved oil and meal quality traits. |
| James Petrie: | DHA production in Camelina, Brassica juncea and Brassica napus seed. |
| Joanne Ernest: | Seed protein accumulation and breakdown in a model oilseed. |
| DISCUSSION: | What quality characteristics are likely to become more important in canola? |
| John Kirkegaard: | Recent developments in the use of canola as a dual-purpose crop in Australia. |
Session 8: High rainfall canolaChair: Trent Potter |
| Annieka Paridaen: | Getting more value from canola (Brassica napus)—opportunities for mixed farming enterprises in southern Australia’s high rainfall cropping regions. |
| Brendan Christy: | The risks and yield potential of canola cultivars and time of sowing within the HRZ. |
| Penny Riffkin: | Reducing canola height in the High Rainfall Zone through the use of semi dwarf varieties and the impact on grain yield. |
| Margaret Raeside: | Increasing the conception and reproduction rate of ewe lambs grazing spring sown canola as forage during autumn. |
| Julianne Lilley: | Using APSIM Canola to assess grain yield and grazing potential of canola across Australia’s high rainfall zone. |
| DISCUSSION: | What do we need for canola in the HRZ and how big could the crop become? |
| Andrew Ware: | Close and state for next ARAB conference |
