Day 1: Sep 7, 2016 (Wednesday)
| 13:00 ∼ 13:20 | Opening Address Dr. Tokio Imbe President, NARO |
| Welcome Remarks
Dr. Masa Iwanaga President, JIRCAS |
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| Welcome Remarks
Dr. Takehiro Okubo Director, International Research Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Research Council Secretariat, MAFF |
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| 13:20 ∼ 14:00 | Keynote Lecture: IRRI strategies towards meeting future rice demand under climatic challenges Dr. Jacqueline Hughes Deputy Director General for Research, IRRI |
Session I. High temperature tolerance
Chair: Dr. Takayuki Umemoto, Institute of Crop Science, NARO
| 14:00 ∼ 14:25 | Mechanisms of Foehn-induced chalky ring formation in rice: Use of the on-site cell-specific analytical method and practical applications Dr. Hiroshi Wada Kyushu Okinawa Agricultural Research Center, NARO |
| 14:25∼ 14:50 | Impact of high temperature on the transcriptome/metabolome in developing grains Dr. Hiromoto Yamakawa Central Region Agricultural Research Center, NARO |
| 14:50 ∼ 15:20 | Photo Session and Coffee・Tea Break |
| 15:20 ∼ 15:45 | Influence of high temperature at grain filling period on rice properties for sake brewing Dr. Masaki Okuda National Research Institute of Brewing |
| 15:45 ∼ 16:10 | Early morning flowering trait to mitigate heat-induced spikelet sterility at flowering Dr. Tsutomu Ishimaru Central Region Agricultural Research Center, NARO |
| 16:10 ∼ 16:35 | Value capture in the sector of rice quality via genomics assisted breeding Dr. Nese Sreenivasulu IRRI |
| 16:35 ∼ 17:00 | General Discussion |
| 17:30 ∼ 19:30 | Welcome Reception |
Day 2: Sep 8, 2016 (Thursday)
Session II. High yielding physiology
Chair: Dr. Nobuya Kobayashi, NARO Institute of Crop Science
| 09:00 ∼ 09:25 | Model analyses on high-yielding traits of rice under various environmental conditions
Dr. Hiroe Yoshida Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, NARO |
| 09:25 ∼ 09:50 | Potential of root system architecture in ideotype breeding to improve rice yield Dr. Yusaku Uga Institute of Crop Science, NARO |
| 09:50 ∼10:10 | Coffee・Tea Break |
| 10:10 ∼10:35 | Physio genetics of high yielding in the temperate regions and the tropics Dr. Toshiyuki Takai IRRI / JIRCAS |
| 11:00 ∼11:25 | MAGIC populations and allele mining for dissecting yield traits
Dr. Hei Leung IRRI |
| 11:00 ∼11:25 | Identification of a resistance gene to the 4-HPPD inhibitory herbicide from Japonica rice and its incorporation into IR64
Dr. Hiroshi Kato Institute of Crop Science, NARO |
| 11:25 ∼ 12:00 | General Discussion |
| 12:00 ∼13:30 | Lunch Break |
Session III. Insect pest management
Chair: Dr. Masaya Matsumura, Kyushu Okinawa Agricultural Research Center, NARO
| 13:30 ∼ 13:55 | Improving the pest-resiliency of rice ecosystems Dr. Buyung Hadi IRRI |
| 13:55 ∼ 14:20 | Analysis and prediction of rice planthoppers' migration in East Asia Dr. Akira Otuka Institute of Agricultural Machinery, NARO |
| 14:20 ∼ 14:45 | Genetic analysis of resistance to planthoppers in rice Dr. Hideshi Yasui Kyushu University |
| 14:45 ∼ 15:10 | Coffee・Tea Break |
| 15:10 ∼ 15:35 | Possible role of weeds and meadows on the infection cycle of Rice stripe virus Dr. Mitsuru Okuda Central Region Agricultural Research Center, NARO |
| 15:35 ∼ 16:00 | Network collaboration on rice blast research Dr. Yoshimichi Fukuta JIRCAS |
| 16:00 ∼16:30 | General Discussion |
| 16:30 | Closing Remarks |
