developing abiotic stress tolerance rice workshop

52 Pages·2017·1.46 MB·English

by  Mirriam Colombi

DEVELOPING ABIOTIC STRESS TOLERANCE RICE WORKSHOP

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EVELOPING ABIOTIC STRESS TOLERANCE IN RICE

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ROGRAMME AND INFORMATION BOOK
FORTUNELAND HOTEL, 141, TRAN
VAN KHEO, DISTRIC. NINH KIỀU, CANTHO CITY, VIETNAM
15th – 17th September 2017

CONTACT INFORMATION

University of Nottingham, Biosciences, UK
Zoe Wilson – [email protected]
Sean Mayes - [email protected]

Cuulong Delta Rice Research Institute, Can Tho, High Agricultural Technology Research
Institute for Mekong delta, VietNam
Nguyen Thi Lang - [email protected]

Hotel: 141, Tran Van Kheo Street, Cai Khe Ward, Ninh Kieu Dist., Can Tho City.
https://mytour.vn/10953-khach-san-dong-ha-fortuneland-can-tho.html

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HATRI
DEVELOPING ABIOTIC STRESS TOLERANCE RICE WORKSHOP
DEVELOPING ABIOTIC STRESS TOLERANCE IN RICE WORKSHOP
The programme ‘British Council Researcher Links’ provides opportunities for early career
researchers from the UK and internationally to interact, learn from each other and explore
opportunities for building long-lasting research collaborations.
The workshop will provide a unique opportunity for sharing research expertise and
networking. During the workshop, early career researchers will have the opportunity to
present their research in the form of short presentations and discuss these with established
researchers from the UK and VietNam.
The workshop will facilitate collaborations, build capacity and enable implementation of
molecular techniques to identify traits for drought and salt tolerance with an end goal of
generating new stress tolerant rice for the Mekong Delta region. This will facilitate
collaborative research opportunities for VietNam and UK scientists and aims to provide
farmers and management agencies with the technologies and knowledge that will improve
food security in the Mekong Delta and VietNam more generally.

BACKGROUND
The Mekong delta is VietNam’s main rice producing area, accounting for half of the country’s
annual rice production. The Delta’s rice land use is divided into agro-hydrological zones that
are controlled by hydrology, especially drought frequency and salinity regimes. Over the last
30 years Vietnamese farmers have been adapting to changing environmental conditions by
modifying and diversifying their production systems and water management. However
significant constraints limit the ability of farmers to adapt to the new hydrological regimes.
These constraints include; the availability of suitable cultivars, soil nutrient management
options, a lack of knowledge of the potential threats from acid sulphate soil inundation and
also the lack of suitable planning tools.

LONG TERM OBJECTIVES
1. The overall aim is to increase the adaptive capacity of rice production systems in the
Mekong Delta Region to enable high, resilient, crop yields.
2. To provide researchers, farmers and management agencies with the technologies and
knowledge that will improve food security in the Mekong Delta.
3. To develop new field phenotyping technologies in the Mekong Delta provinces to identify
traits for salt and drought tolerance in rice.
4. To develop collaborations that will lead to trait characterisation for resistance to abiotic
stresses and enable effective deployment of these traits into breeding materials.
5. To develop capacity for effective Marker-Assisted Breeding programmes in the Mekong
Delta Region to assist in delivery of the new traits.
6. Facilitate collaborations for future joint research activities between the UK and VietNam.
7. To begin long-term scientific engagement of workshop participants for the good of both
countries.

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THE WORKSHOP – A STARTING POINT
The workshop will enhance the capacity of the VietNam partners in Marker-Assisted
Breeding and Phenotyping/Identification of traits for stress resilience, enabling the VietNam
partners to become a centre of excellence and dissemination for Rice Breeding, with support
and collaboration from the UK. It will also introduce the UK partners to the current issues
which face practical implementation of new technologies and their ‘real world’ context.

• It will address technical approaches for incorporating Marker-Assisted Breeding into
existing rice improvement programmes.
• Focus will also be on identification of traits for abiotic stress resilience in field and
controlled environment conditions by high-throughput screening approaches.
• Emphasis will be paid to data analysis from the approaches, using UoN Centre for
Integrative Biology (CPIB) expertise (many UK participants are members). This will include
image analysis, but also bioinformatics and comparative analyses to assist in trait
characterisation.

ORGANIZERS

University of Nottingham – UK
Zoe Wilson – [email protected]
Sean Mayes - [email protected]

Cuulong Delta Rice Research Institute/High Agricultural Technology Research Institute
for Mekong delta - VietNam
Nguyen Thi Lang - [email protected]

This workshop is funded by the Newton Fund and funding from the High Agricultural
Technology Research Institute for Mekong (HATRI) and the Agricam Company
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WORKSHOP PROGRAMME

Day 1 – 15th September 2017

(09:00 - 10:30) Car pick up to Agricam office (Thot Not district), Can Tho

11.00 - 11.30 Introduction and welcome
Prof N.T. Lang and Prof Zoe Wilson

11.30 - 12.00 The British Council in general, Newton Fund in VietNam and
current opportunities
- Nguyen Hoang Thanh Le, Higher Education Officer

12.00 - 12.30 Funding and support available from the VietNam
- Do Xuan Anh, Representative of the Ministry of Science
and Technology (Consultant, Dept. of International
Cooperation)
- Nguyen Y Nguyen: Vice President, Association of Science
and Technology, Can tho City
-Tran Ngoc Nguyen: Director, Department of science and
Technology, Can tho City

12.30 - 13.30 Lunch

13.30 - 14.00 Briefing on rice agriculture in VietNam
Prof. Bui Chi Buu

14:00-16:30 Field Visit-hands-on programme of field measurements at
local Research centres, fields and laboratories

16:30- 18:30 to Restaurant Lua Nep Can Tho

Evening meal and mentor session

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Day 2 – 16th September 2017

09.00 – 09.30 The context and research questions to be addressed

09.00 – 09.30 Presentation - Summarising the breeding activities in the
Mekong Delta, VietNam (Prof N.T. Lang)

09.00 - 10.00 Presentation – Summarising the plant research activities at
Sutton Bonington, UoN, UK (Prof Zoe Wilson)

10.00 - 12.30 Presentations from submitted Abstracts
ECRs 15 min on research areas and feedback

12.30 - 13.30 Lunch

13.30 – 15.15 Presentations from submitted Abstracts
ECRs 15 min on research area and feedback

15.15 - 16.00 Developing the Workshop Group Questions

16.00 - 16.30 Germplasm and management for enhancing productivity of
submergence and medium stagnant water stresses in rice at
Mekong Delta (Prof N.T. Lang)

16.30 - 17.00 Developing temperature resilience during flowering in rice
(Prof Zoe Wilson)

17.00 - 17.30 Development of rice genotype tolerance to salinity in the
Mekong Delta, VietNam via marker–assisted selection (Prof. Bui
Chi Buu)

17.30 - 18.00 Pyramiding two genes of salt and drought tolerance on
backcrossing rice lines (Dr Pham Thi Be Thu)

18.00 - 18.30 Participatory Variety Selection Trials of salt tolerant lines in
farmers' field of Bac Lieu province (Dr Dang Minh Tam)

Evening meal and mentor session

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Day 3 – 17th September 2017

9.00 - 9.30 Marker-assisted selection and applications (Dr Sean Mayes)

9.30 - 10.00 Enhancing photosynthesis by canopy modification (Dr Erik
Murchie)

10.00 - 10.30 Auxin regulates root hair elongation in response to low external
phosphate (Dr Ranjan Swarup)

10.30 - 11.00 Application of endophytic bacteria in rice production in acid
sulphate soil in Mekong Delta, VietNam (Dr Nguyen Huu Hiep)

11.00 – 11.30 Breeding lodging resistance for sticky rice (Oryza sativa var.
indica) lines in Mekong Delta (Dr Le Van Hoa)

11.30 – 12.30 Work Groups Session 1

12.30 - 13.30 Lunch

13.30 - 16.00 Work Group Session 2

16.00 - 17.00 Work Group Feedback and next actions

17.00 - 17.30 Round up and the next steps

17.30 Closing comments (N.T. Lang and Zoe Wilson)
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Early Career Researcher Talks (15 mins, including questions)

Session 1
1. Associate Professor, Pham Phuoc Nhan (Cantho University) Silicon
supplement improved rice seedlings’ tolerance to abiotic stress

2. Dr Phat Chau Tan (CLRRI) The situation of salinity infiltration in Mekong
Delta

3. Dr Zinnia Gonzalez Carranza (University of Nottingham) Identifying
molecular mechanisms involving microRNAs in response to environmental
stresses in plants

4. Dr Phuc Thi Do (Vietnam National University) Assessment of natural
variation in genes encoding Na+ transporters in rice

5. Assistant Professor, V. Vengadessan, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru College of
Agriculture and Research Institute TBA

6. Dr Lorna McAusland (University of Nottingham) Effects of kinetics of light-
induced stomatal responses on photosynthesis and water-use efficiency;
from response identification to high-throughput phenotyping

7. Dr Chu Duc Ha (Agricultural Genetics Institute) The role of methionine-rich
proteins in abiotic stress responses in rice (Oryza sativa l.)

8. Dr Nguyen Thi Hong Thuong (Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City -
University of Science) TBA

9. Dr Robert Caine (University of Sheffield) Climate ready rice - reducing
stomatal density to improve drought tolerance

10. Dr To Thi Mai Huong (University of Science and Technology of Hanoi) GWAS
reveals new QTLs for the sensitivity to jasmonic acid linked to plant growth
and stress tolerance in Vietnamese rice collection
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Session 2

11. Dr Nguyen Duc Xuan Chuong (Nong Lam University of Ho Chi Minh City)
Drought impacts on growth and yield of five common rice varieties in
Mekong Delta growing in greenhouse conditions

12. Dr Cara Griffiths (Rothamsted Research, UK) Optimisation of carbon
allocation for increased yield and resilience in crops

13. Dr Nguyen Van Cuu (National Key Laboratory for Plant Cell Biotechnology-
Institute of Agricultural Genetics) TBA

14. Dr Christopher Hepworth (University of Sheffield) A 3D model of
photosynthesis to inform breeding for improved rice performance in a
changing climate

15. Dr Pham Thi Minh Thu (Institute of Biotechnology and Environment, Nha
Trang University) OsWOX13, a vascular tissue-specific homeobox
transcription factor, enhances rice’s tolerance to abiotic stresses and
triggers early flowering in rice

16. Dr Emily Harris (University of Sheffield) Rice with reduced stomatal density
have increased survival and performance during severe drought at elevated
temperatures

17. Dr Binh TM Pham ( Ho Chi Minh City University of Science) biosynthesis of
isoprenoids and the effects of stress signals on isoprenoid profiles in plants

Please provide a powerpoint or other presentation for circulation to other
participants.
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Staff serve for Workshop
Full Name: Nguyen Trong Phuoc
Nationality: VIETNAMESE
Date of birth: 09/09/1989
Sex: Male
Office: HIGH AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH
INSTITUTE
FOR MEKONG DELTA (HATRI)
Email: [email protected]

Full Name: Bien Anh Khoa
Nationality: VIETNAMESE
Date of birth: 01/05/1993
Sex: Male
Office: HIGH AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH
INSTITUTE
FOR MEKONG DELTA (HATRI)
Email: [email protected]

Full Name: Nguyen Truong Giang
Nationality: VIETNAMESE
Date of birth: 09/25/1992
Sex: Male
Office: HIGH AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH
INSTITUTE
FOR MEKONG DELTA (HATRI)
Email: [email protected]
Full Name: Pham Thi Bao Tran
Nationality: VIETNAMESE
Date of birth: 01/20/1991
Sex: Female
Office: HIGH AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH
INSTITUTE
FOR MEKONG DELTA (HATRI)

Email: [email protected]
Full Name: Tran Bao Toan
Nationality: VIETNAMESE
Date of birth: 1989
Sex: Male
Office: HIGH AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH
INSTITUTE
FOR MEKONG DELTA (HATRI)

Email: [email protected]
Full Name: Nguyen Thi Hong Loan
Nationality: VIETNAMESE
Date of birth: 03/09/1993
Sex: Female
Office: HIGH AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH
INSTITUTE
FOR MEKONG DELTA (HATRI)
Email: [email protected]

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Full Name: Nguyen Van Huu Linh
Nationality: VIETNAMESE
Date of birth: 05/12/1993
Sex: Male
Office: HIGH AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH
INSTITUTE
FOR MEKONG DELTA (HATRI)
Email: [email protected]

WE WOULD ALSO LIKE TO THANK MIRIAM COLOMBI AND JOANNA SMUGA-LAMTZ
AND FOR THEIR WORK ORGANISING THE WORKSHOP AND THE PROGRAMME

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