XXII Bunt and Smut Workshop Program

XXII International Workshop on Bunt and Smut Diseases
Monday, 12 June 2023
17:00 Welcome Meet and Greet   (17:00-19:00)
Address: Konrad Lorenz Str. 24, 3430 Tulln, Universitäts- und Forschungszentrum Tulln.
Tuesday, 13 June 2023
9:00 Registration Desk Opens
10:00 Guided Tour of Plant Breeding Research at BOKU Campus Tulln
12:00 Lunch  
12:30 Opening of the Workshop
13:00 Session 1
13:00 Hole, D. David’s Adventures in Tilletia-land: with apologies to Lewis Carroll
13:50 Bengtsson, T. The stinking comeback – measures to understand the cause of the re-emergence of common bunt in Swedish winter wheat?
14:15 Krause, W. Genomic selection for dwarf bunt resistance in wheat
14:40 Lunzer , M. Wheat (Triticum aestivum) chromosome 6D harbours a major QTL for common bunt resistance present in the Bt11 bunt differential
15:05 Joshi, P. Assessment of Common Bunt and Dwarf Bunt Resistance in Bt-Differential Lines Grown in Diverse Environments
15:30 Coffee Break  
16:10 Borgen, A. Determination of virulence of European races of common bunt using a differential set of wheat cultivars
16:20 Borgen, A. Co-evolution of virulence and resistance in heterogeneous wheat populations
16:30 Borgen, A. Annotation of differential lines used for resistance trials for common bunt
16:40 Borgen, A. Gene postulation based on phenotyping wheat varieties with a differential set of virulence races of common bunt (Tilletia caries)
16:50 Borgen, A. Registered varieties and Organic Heterogeneous Material (OHM) with resistance to common bunt in Europe
Wednesday, 14 June 2023
9:00 Session 2
9:00 Dhillon, G. S. Candidate gene analysis for the 7DS QTL associated with dwarf bunt resistance of winter wheat using targeted capture sequencing technology
9:25 Dumalasová, V. Reaction of wheat genotypes to Czech common bunt and dwarf bunt samples
9:50 Ciuca, M. A wheat-rye translocation 1AL.1RS involved in wheat resistance to bunt
10:15 Coffee Break  
10:50 Lunzer, M. How long does it take to develop high performing and common bunt resistant winter wheat lines using organics-compliant methods?
11:15 Fischbach, M.E. Identification of novel seed treatments and adapted agronomic practices to control common bunt in organic wheat production
11:40 Ren, Z. Microbiome Signature of Endophytes in Wheat Seed Response to Wheat Dwarf Bunt Caused by Tilletia controversa Kühn
12:05 Lunch
13:50 Recreation Tour Wachau Valley, Bus departure in front of the University building
19:30 Workshop Dinner: Restaurant Goldenes Schiff,  at Wiener Strasse 10, 3430 Tulln.
Thursday, 15 June 2023
9:00 Poster Session
  Christensen, D. K. Genetic Mapping of Common Bunt Resistance Gene Bt1
  Christensen, D. K. Genetic Mapping of Common Bunt Resistance Gene Bt7
  Christensen, D. K. Genetic Mapping of Common Bunt Resistance Gene Bt9
  Christensen, D. K. Genetic Mapping of Common Bunt Resistance Gene Bt10
  Christensen, D. K. Preliminary Genetic Mapping of Common Bunt Resistance Gene Bt13
  Christensen, D. K. Genetic Mapping of Common Bunt Resistance Gene BtZ
  Lunzer, M. Genome-wide association mapping identifies common bunt resistance loci in a wheat diversity panel
  Rabl, J. Variation in aggressiveness and virulence among eight common bunt sources collected in Austria
  Steiner, B. Association genetics of common bunt resistance in
Aegilops tauschii – preliminary results
  Plūme, S. Loose smut resistant spring barley breeding for organic farming
  Dumalasová, V. HealthyMinorCereals spelt diversity panel reaction to rusts, powdery mildew, leaf blotch and common bunt
10:00 Coffee Break  
10:30 Breeders' Workshop:
all participants
Round table discussion on co-ordinated research ideas and efforts to control bunt and smut diseases 
13:00 Lunch
14:30 Field Visit at BOKU Campus Tulln: Research on resistance to Fusarium head blight and common bunt of wheat
Friday, 16 June 2023
19:00  Jazz on Campus - concert at BOKU Tulln Atrium - free admission!


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