Day I: September 21, 2026

Session 1: Genetics and Breeding for Abiotic Stress Tolerance
14:00 – 20:00 (Cairo, Egypt time | GMT+3)​​

Moderators​

 🎤 Keynote Lectures

14:00 – 14:40: Recent advances in developing salt-tolerant crop varieties: Linking genetic identity                                      to nutritional traits, Prof. Dr. Jutta Papenbrock: Leibniz University Hannover, Germany

14:40 – 15:20: Peduncle Trait Variation and Its Genetic and Phenotypic Association with Spike                                        Productivity in Wheat under Contrasting Water Regimes, Prof. Dr. Ahmed Sallam, Assiut                            University, Egypt

15:20 – 16:00: Dr. Yasser Moursi, University of Fayoum, Egypt

16:00 – 16:10: ☕ Break​​

🧬 Oral Presentations

                          Identification and Validation of Novel Genes Associated with Lead Tolerance in Spring                             Wheat at the Seedling Stage, Ms. Shrouk Abd Al-twab Abd Al-moneim, Assiut University,                           Egypt.

🧾 Poster Session

 - To be determined

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