Concurrent Session: Management of diseases and emerging diseases

Monday, July 14, 2025

15:15 - 16:45

Location: Room P+Q

Co-Chair(s)

LT

Leena Tripathi, PhD (she/her/hers)

IITA
Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya
KW

Kamil Witek

Group leader
2Blades, The Sainsbury Laboratory
Norwich, England, United Kingdom

Presentations:

15:15 - 15:35

Modern Breeding Tools for BXW Resistance: Advancing Banana Improvement through Transgenics and Genome Editing
Presenting Author: Leena Tripathi, PhD (she/her/hers) – IITA
Author: Samwel Muiruri
Author: Jaindra Nath Tripathi
15:35 - 15:55

Advancing Durable Soybean Rust Resistance for African Smallholders and Global Commercial Agriculture
Presenting Author: Everton Geraldo Capote Ferreira (he/him/his) – 2Blades - Sainsbury Laboratory
15:55 - 16:15

Engineering Resilience: Gene Editing Strategies for Combating Plant Diseases
Presenting Author: Shai J. Lawit, PhD (he/him/his) – Pairwise
Author: Marisa Miller – Pairwise
Author: Aaron Hummel – Pairwise
16:15 - 16:25

Diversity-informed R gene deployment strategies enabled by rapid avirulence gene identification
Author: Lukas Kunz – University of Zurich
Author: Beat Keller – Univ of Zurich
Author: Ralph Hückelhoven – TU Munich
Presenting Author: Marion C. Müller – Technical University Munich, Chair of Phytopathology
16:25 - 16:35

Effects of increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide levels on soybean responses to diverse pathogens
Presenting Author: Steven A. Whitham – Department of Plant Pathology, Entomology and Microbiology, Iowa State University
Author: Melissa Bredow – Department of Plant Pathology, Entomology and Microbiology, Iowa State University
Author: Ekkachai Khwanbua – Department of Plant Pathology, Entomology and Microbiology, Iowa State University
Author: Aline Chicowski – Department of Plant Pathology, Entomology and Microbiology, Iowa State University
Author: Yunhui Qi – Department of Data Science, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Author: Matthew Breitzman – Iowa State University
Author: Katerina Holan – United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Research Service (ARS), Corn Insects and Crop Genetics Research Unit
Author: Peng Liu – Department of Statistics, Iowa State University
Author: Michelle Graham – United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Research Service (ARS), Corn Insects and Crop Genetics Research Unit and Department of Agronomy
16:35 - 16:45

RNA biopesticides for next generation crop protection
Author: Rebecca Degnan – The University of Queensland
Author: Leny Jane Pame – The University of Queensland
Author: Sebastian Orellana-Quinteros – The University of Queensland
Author: Ken Pegg – Queensland Department of Primary Industries
Author: Donald Gardiner – QAAFI, University of Queensland
Author: Alistair McTaggart – The University of Queensland
Author: Louise Shuey – Queensland Department of Primary Industries
Author: Bernard Carroll – The University of Queensland
Author: Neena Mitter – Charles Sturt University
Presenting Author: Anne Sawyer – QAAFI/SCMB University of Queensland