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S1 Exploring the symptomless phase of Fusarium graminearum infections in wheat

Dr. Kim Hammond-Kosack, Rothamsted Research, England

S2 Improving Fusarium head blight resistance in wheat – an integrated approach

Dr. Curtis Pozniak, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada

S3 Fusarium head blight in Canada: history of incidence, severity and pathogen diversity

Dr. Sean Walkowiak, Grain Research Laboratories, Canadian Grain Commission, Canada

S4 Status of Fusarium head blight in the USA and response of the US Wheat and Barley Scab Initiative

Professor Gary Bergstrom, Cornell University, USA

S5 Fusarium head blight: an emerging and expanding disease in global south

Dr. Pawan Kumar Singh, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, Mexico

S6 Key topics related to Fusarium head blight in Italy: an overview

Professor Giovanni Beccari, University of Perugia, Italy

S7 Genetic improvement for the resistance to Fusarium head blight in China

Professor Hongxiang Ma, Yangzhou University, China

S8 Fusarium head blight in Southern Africa: progress made on casual pathogens, host resistance and chemical control

Dr. Gert van Coller, Western Cape Dept. of Agriculture, South Africa

Wheat Breeding in Germany: FHB related topics

Dr. Viktor Korzun, KWS SAAT SE & Co.KGaA, Germany

S9 Diversity and global population structure of Fusarium graminearum (keynote)

Dr. Todd Ward, United States Department of Agriculture, Peoria, USA

S10 Phylogenomics of Fusarium species in wheat: linking species boundaries with functional traits in Fusarium head blight

Dr. Antonio Moretti, Institute of Sciences of Food Production, National Research Council, Bari, Italy

S11 Adaptation of Fusarium head blight pathogens to changes in agricultural practices and human migration

Meixin Yang, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

S12 High-throughput phenotyping of Fusarium head blight in winter wheat

Riley McConachie, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada

S13 Secondary metabolites and their role in Fusarium head blight (FHB) (keynote)

Dr. David Overy, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, Canada

S14 Inhibition of mycotoxin using microbial volatiles (keynote)

Dr. Martha Vaughan, United States Department of Agriculture, Peoria, USA

S15 Metabolic crosstalk between phenylalanine and tyrosine in wheat: novel insights into the defense against the mycotoxin deoxynivalenol

Samuele Risoli, University of Pisa, Italy

S16 Estimation of deoxynivalenol (DON) concentration in maize grain by testing grain dust on a commercial scale

Dr. Nasim Alijanimamaghani, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada

S17 Role of enniatins and deoxynivalenol in Fusarium development and interspecific competition

Professor Giovanni Beccari, University of Perugia, Italy

S18 Developing novel strategies to design FHB resistance in wheat

Professor Nidhi Rawat, University of Maryland, United States

S19 Harnessing transkingdom microbiomes to combat Fusarium head blight

Professor Thomas Baldwin, North Dakota State University, Fargo, United States

S20 Peptides derived from a Trichoderma peptaibol as an alternative method to control Fusarium head blight of wheat

Arianna Panichi, University of Padova, Legnaro, Italy

S21 Developing RNAi-based fungicides to control Fusarium head blight

Dr. Steve Robinson, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Saskatoon, Canada

S22 A non-GMO green biotech route to control FHB disease in wheat

Professor Mohsen Mohammadi, Purdue University, West Lafayette, United States

S23 Trichothecenes - key players in plant-microbe interactions (keynote)

Professor Fiona Doohan, University College Dublin, Ireland

S24 Plants behaving badly: why do barley plants respond stochastically to Fusarium head blight (FHB)?

Ethan Redmond, University of York, UK

S25 Mutation of sucrose: Fructan 6-fructosyltransferase (6-SFT) in hexaploid wheat may reduce Fusarium head blight susceptibility

Dr. Wanxin Chen, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, UK

S26 Mapping DON and DON-glucoside in corn

Dr. Aida Kebede, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, Canada

S27 Fusarium environment sensing: drivers of disease, toxins, and fungicide resistance (keynote)

Dr. Neil Brown, University of Bath, England

S28 Metabolome based genome wide association study (mGWAS) on Type II FHB resistance in wheat

Dr. Lipu Wang, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada

S29 Interactions between Fusarium graminearum and hydroxycinnamic acids from cereal crops.

Professor Matthew Bakker, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

S30 The role of HYD5 protein in Fusarium-barley interactions

Anuradha Jayathissa, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

S31 Integrating host gene regulations and F. graminearum effector expression to identify master regulators of FHB in bread wheat (keynote)

Professor Ludovic Bonhomme, Institut national de la rechereche agronomique et environment, Clermont-Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

S32 The pan-genomic effectome of the Fusarium sambucinum species complex

Chris Blackman, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

S33 Fusarium graminearum effector fghp1 is critical for fungal initial infection in wheat and barley

Dr. Guixia Hao, United States Department of Agriculture, Peoria, USA

S34 Fusarium graminearum secretes a serine protease, tpp1, during wheat spike infection to supress plant immune response

Dr. Reynaldi Darma, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, UK

S35 Prevention strategies and sustainable control of Fusarium head blight in small-grain cereals: the Swiss perspective (keynote)

Dr. Susanne Vogelgsang, Agroscope, Switzerland

S36 Efficacy of fungicide treatments for managing Fusarium head blight and foliar diseases using on-farm participatory methods

Olanrewaju Shittu, Penn State University, USA

S37 A machine learning-based model for predicting Fusarium head blight epidemics of wheat across China

Professor Hao Zhang, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing China

S38 Integrating satellite and smartphone: developing a multi-scale approach to Fusarium head blight estimation in wheat

Connor Belot, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada

S39 The break of DON: a new era of wheat varieties in Canada (keynote)

Dr. Richard Cuthbert, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Swift Current, Canada

S40 Combating Fusarium head blight with Fhb7: from mechanisms to precision wheat breeding (keynote)

Professor Lingrang Kong, National Key Laboratory of Wheat Improvement at Shandong Agricultural University, China

S41 Toropi: A source of multiple disease resistance, including Fusarium head blight in wheat

Dr. Camila Zanella, NIAB, Cambridge, UK

S42 The dark side of dwarfing genes – hindering genetic gain for FHB resistance in wheat, triticale, and rye

Professor Thomas Miedaner, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany

S43 Breeding research on fusarium head blight in wheat – insights for bread wheat and durum wheat improvement

Professor Hermann Bürstmayr, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Austria