| 8:00 | Registration | Boulevard Foyer Registration Desk |
| Opening Session | |
| Session Chair | Prof. Meixue Zhou, University of Tasmania |
| 08:30 – 08:40 | Opening Speech Prof Michael Rose, Director of the Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture (TIA) |
| 08:40 – 08:50 | Address by Minister Counsellor Ling Wang of Chinese Embassy/ Director of the International Exchange Center, Dr Sizhen Peng |
| Group Photo | |
| Plenary Session | |
| Session Chair | Meixue Zhou/Matt Harrison |
| 09:00-09:20 | Genome structural variations for environmental adaptation Chengdao Li |
| 09:20 – 09:40 | Manage nitrogen for sustainable food production and environment Deli Chen |
| 09:40 – 10:00 | Spatiotemporal omics and Genomic Big Data for Crop Research Xun Xu |
| 10:00 – 10:20 | Dissecting the molecular pathogenesis of barley yellow dwarf virus to aid host resistance breeding Daowen Wang |
| 10:20 – 10:40 | Genetic improvement of rice salt tolerance Dezhi Wu |
| 10:40 – 11:00 | Morning Tea |
| Plenary Session | |
| Session Chair | Chengdao Li/Caroline Mohammed |
| 11:00 – 11:20 | Evolution and function of a chloroplast retrograde signal in abiotic stress response in land plants Zhonghua Chen |
| 11:20-11:40 | Weed Control Strategies in Foxtail Millet (Setaria italica (L.) P. Beauv.) Fields Xiangyang Yuan |
| 11:40 – 12:00 | Melatonin enhances crop resilience to climate-related stress: evidence from peanut Zhiyong Zhang |
| 12:00 – 12:20 | Development of high-density gene chip and identification of soil-borne disease regulatory genes in wheat Feng Chen |
| 12:20 – 13:00 | Lunch |
| Plenary Session | |
| Session Chair | Deli Chen/Guoping Zhang |
| 13:00 – 13:15 | Unraveling the Biosynthetic Pathway of Hordatine and Its Role in Disease Resistance Shengguan Cai |
| 13:15 – 13:30 | Carbon chain-carbon credit and the mitigation of paddy methane emissions Yunkai Jin |
| 13:30 – 13:45 | Exploration and practice of forage-grain ratoon rice system in China Ting Peng |
| 13:45 – 14:00 | Application of Housefly Antimicrobial Peptides in Plant Disease Control Yao Liu |
| 14:00 – 14:15 | Genetic improvement of barley grain quality Lingzhen Ye |
| 14:15 – 14:30 | Mechanism of seed endophytic bacteria R5 enhancing cadmium tolerance in rice Ruiwen Hu |
| 14:30 – 14:45 | Learn from halophyte: genome-based energy saving and ion homeostasis mechanism under salt stress Qiufang Shen |
| 14:45 – 15:10 | Afternoon Tea |
| Plenary Session | |
| Session Chair | Xun Xu/Daowen Wang |
| 15:10 – 15:25 | MicroRNA164d suppresses the HvNAC92-HvHKT1;5 module to enhance salinity tolerance in barley Liuhui Kuang |
| 15:25 – 15:40 | Soil nitrogen losses in drained agricultural peatland with mineral soil coverage Yuqiao Wang |
| 15:40 – 15:55 | High-quality genome sequencing reveals the infection mechanism of R. cerealis in common wheat Yan Ren |
| 15:55 – 16:10 | Region-Specific Mechanisms Underlying Waterlogging Tolerance in Wheat Adventitious Roots at Single-Cell Resolution Yanan Niu |
| 16:10 – 17:30 | Panel Discusson Session Chair: Meixue Zhou Panel Members: Deli Chen, Feng Chen, Zhonghua Chen, Matt Harrison, Chengdao Li, Caroline Mohammed, Daowen Wang, Dezhi Wu, Xun Xu, Guoping Zhang |
| 18:30 – 22:00 | Conference Dinner Me Wah Restaurant |
| 8:00 | Registration | Boulevard Foyer Registration Desk |
| Plenary Session | |
| Session Chair | Dezhi Wu/Xiangyang Yuan |
| 08:50-09:00 | Bridging Nutrition and Immunity: LES33-Mediated Regulation of Phosphorus Absorption and Disease Resistance in Maize Mengyao Chen |
| 09:00 – 09:10 | Wheat Cultivated under Elevated CO2: Enhancement of Flour Digestibility via Starch Modification and weakening Gluten Network Liang Zheng |
| 09:10 – 09:20 | Casual mutation of alkaloid regulator LaRAP2.7 allowed Narrow-leafed lupin domestication Chunsheng Xiao |
| 09:20 – 09:30 | Function of silicon in alleviating induced drought and herbivory stress and transcriptomic analysis under heat and herbivory stress in wheat Lulu Wang |
| 09:30 – 09:40 | Identification of novel genes responsible for arsenate detoxification in rice Xuan Chen |
| 09:40 – 09:50 | Genotypic variation in barley responses to waterlogging stress: physiological performance and yield components Aili Gulinazhaer |
| 09:50 – 10:00 | Molecular Genetics and Artificial Intelligence for Leaf structural and Stomatal Traits towards Heat Stress Tolerance in Wheat Kun Ning |
| 10:00 – 10:10 | The molecular mechanism of CaM1-CAMTA4 module regulates salt tolerance in barley Yishan Tu |
| 10:10 – 10:20 | Molecular and functional dissection of an ISA1-SnRK1b-BAM5.3-NAC068 module for raising wheat yield potential Yiping Wu |
| 10:20 – 11:00 | Morning Tea |
| Plenary Session | |
| Session Chair | Zhonghua Chen/Zhiyong Zhang |
| 11:00-11:10 | Heavy metal and nutrient accumulation in forage-grain rice: Implications for food safety and health risks Yimei Wang |
| 11:10-11:20 | Unveiling the Stomatal Development Trajectory in Barley via Single-Cell Transcriptomics Xinyi He |
| 11:20-11:30 | Horticultural crop pan genome Lan Lan |
| 11:30 – 11:40 | Research on rice yield Prediction Based on Long-Time Series UAV Multispectral Data Xiangqian Feng |
| 11:40 – 11:50 | Fertilizer-driven nitrate availability and soil–plant Mn decoupling under waterlogging: Insights from canola systems Haochen Zhao |
| 11:50 – 12:00 | Chromosome-level genome assembly and annotation of the Durum wheat cultivar Langdon Mengen Chen |
| 12:00 – 12:10 | Wheat Cultivated under Elevated CO2: Enhancement of Flour Digestibility via Starch Modification and weakening Gluten Network Liang Zheng |
| 12:10 – 12:20 | A Novel Ca2+-Dependent DOF17 Transcription Factor Regulates Salt Tolerance in Barley Fengyue Wang |
| 12:20 – 12:30 | The molecular mechanism of TaWIR1b gene regulating powdery mildew in wheat Ti Liu |
| 12:30 – 13:20 | Lunch |
| Plenary Session | |
| Session Chair | Feng Chen/Ke Liu |
| 13:20 – 13:30 | The Root–Sap–Panicle Metabolic Axis Mediated by Fumarate and Its Associated Microbiota Sustains Inferior Spikelet Filling in Rice Qiuyuan Chen |
| 13:30 – 13:40 | Plant–microbe interactions regulate soil ecological adaptation and sympatric speciation of wild barley at Evolution Slope (Tabigha) Zhenyu Cai |
| 13:40 – 13:50 | Genome-Wide Association Study Reveals Major SNPs Associated with Pollen Viability, Stay-Green Phenotype and Spikelet Fertility in Wheat under Heat Stress Abu Bakar Siddique |
| 13:50 – 14:00 | Biochar-mediated trade-offs between crop yield and net GHG balance in three major staple crops: a global meta-analysis Cheng Dong |
| 14:00 – 14:10 | Identifying Image-Derived Traits for Assessing Waterlogging Tolerance in Wheat Using High-Throughput Phenotyping Danyin Huang |
| 14:10 – 14:20 | Cryptochrome Ib represses gibberellin signaling to enhance lodging resistance in maize Linhu Song |
| 14:20 – 14:30 | Responses of maize rhizosphere microorganisms to high temperature and drought stress Fanzheng Meng |
| 14:30 – 14:40 | Fertilizer Type Shapes Soil–Root–Shoot Responses of Faba Bean Varieties to Waterlogging Stress Onusha Sharmita |
| 14:40 – 14:50 | Heat stress inhibits kernel sugar transport via mitochondrial developmental defects Manman Jia |
| 14:50 – 15:20 | Afternoon Tea |
| Plenary Session | |
| Session Chair | Ting Peng/ChenchenZhao |
| 15:20 – 15:30 | Arabidopsis phytochromes A and B synergistically repress SPA1 under blue light Xiaosong Yue |
| 15:30 – 15:40 | QTL Mapping for low-Phosphorus Tolerance in barley Qinglan Wei |
| 15:40 – 15:50 | Mechanisms of New-type Fertilizers in Reducing Nitrous Oxide Emissions from Agricultural Fields Xinru Yuan |
| 15:50 – 16:00 | Omission of antimethanogenic forages in national inventories significantly overestimates livestock methane emissions Huaqiang Li |
| 16:00 – 16:10 | Functional Study on the Regulation of Wheat Sheath Blight by TaBAG6 Gene of BAG Family Protein in Wheat Heying Zhao |
| Closing Session | |
| 16:10 – 16:30 | Closing speech TIA representatives/ Chief representative of the International Exchange Centre/Host of the 2nd CASCA |
