DFW OPEN DAY

20 June 2019

Venue: Rothamsted Research Conference Centre and field sites

10:00 – 10:30 AM Arrival

10:30 – 10:40 AM Welcome and logistics

10:45 AM – 12:00 PM Presentations

1. Keynote: Matt Kerton, DSV
2. DFW overview: Graham Moore (JIC)
3. Wheat Genomes - from one to a hundred: Keith Edwards (Uni Bristol)
4. Genetic resources: JIC

12:00 AM – 12:45 PM on-site visits (please sign up on the day for a maximum of 2) An opportunity to visit some of our laboratories and facilities at Rothamsted Research

1. Transformation laboratory/gene editing & Glasshouses
2. Historic Archive Sample Collection
3. Scanalyzer phenotyping platform
4. Bioimaging
5. Insectary
6. Dry spectral lab
7. TILLING wheat lines in Glasshouses
8. Bioinformatics
9. Take All

12:45 PM – 01:40 PM Lunch at RRes Conference Centre

01:40 PM – 02:00 PM Transfer to field site (Blackhorse, Redbourn)

02:00 PM – 04:00 PM Field visit to our trial plots, see and discuss our latest wheat research.

1. ECOFE
2. WGIN diversity - N, plant protection, drones
3. Drone demonstration
4. T6P (Sugar signalling)
5. Pathology
6. Well on Wheat
7. Mapping populations
8. Breeders Toolkit
9. Root scanning
10. Zinc and iron
11. Rht lines - plant height (pot display)
12. Tillering under heat (pot display)
13. Take All root disease (posters)

04:00 PM End of official program