Agronomy Webinar | Evolutionary Plant Breeding: Exploiting Diversity to Cope with Uncertainty
Meet Our Speakers
Dr. Salvatore Ceccarelli
Independent Researcher, Ascoli Piceno, Italy;
Salvatore Ceccarelli has been a full Professor of Agricultural Genetics at the University of Perugia, Italy until 1987. From 1980 he conducted research at ICARDA (the International Centre for Agricultural Research in Dry Environments, Aleppo, Syria) until 2006, and served the Centre as a consultant until 2014. He left Syria in 2011, moving first to France and then to India until 2016.
He is currently a freelance consultant for various national and international organizations.
During his career, he has supervised over 25 master's and PhD students, conducted training courses for researchers in many countries (China, Australia, South Africa, Philippines, Yemen, Jordan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, India and Bhutan) and published over 300 scientific papers; he has been a speaker at many international conferences. He works on participatory breeding and evolutionary genetic improvement in various crops, and on the relationships between biodiversity, climate change, food and health.
On Wednesday, 11 January 2023, MDPI and the Journal Agronomy organized the third webinar on Agronomy, entitled "Evolutionary Plant Breeding: Exploiting Diversity to Cope with Uncertainty".
The theme of the Webinar on “Evolutionary Plant Breeding: Exploiting Diversity to Cope with Uncertainty” was covered by four speakers, Dr. Carlo Fadda, Ms. Rose Nankya, Prof. Maria Finckh, and Ms. Maede Salimi who provided the theoretical background and the results from trials conducted in Europe, Uganda, Ethiopia and Iran on wheat, barley, rice, bean and pea covering both agronomical, genetical and nutritional aspects. The general message passed on to the audience was about the importance of biodiversity to cope with both climate change and associated biotic and abiotic stresses.
The presentations were followed by a Q&A and a discussion, moderated by the Chair. The webinar was offered via Zoom and required registration to attend. The full recording can be found here on Sciforum website. In order to stay updated on the next webinars on Agronomy, be sure to sign up for our newsletter by clicking on “Subscribe” at the top of the page.
Guest Editor: Dr. Salvatore Ceccarelli
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 May 2023