Program

Tuesday, September 19
9:00 – 12:00 am LatAmPPN Meeting - Seringueira Room
3:00 – 5:00 pm Registration Open – Embrapa Instrumentation
Wednesday, September 20
8:00 – 9:00 am Registration re-opens – Embrapa Instrumentation
09:00 – 9:10 Welcome Address
João de Mendonça Naime – Director General of Embrapa Instrumentation
Novel Non-Invasive Technologies
Chair: Paulo Herrmann
9:10 – 9:55 State of the art phenotyping: New windows to crops as the basis for better understanding and improvement of crops
Ulrich Schurr - FZJ/IBG-2 – Jülich - Germany
09:55 – 10:35 Overview of Embrapa's international collaborations
Alexandre Morais do Amaral – Head of Secretariat of International Affairs - Embrapa SRI - on behalf of president of Embrapa - Brasília – DF – Brazil
10:35 – 11:05 Coffee Break
Chair and Co-Chair: Paulo E. Cruvinel and Thiago Teixeira Santos
11:05 – 11:35 Oral Presentation O1 (35): Phenotyping transpiration dynamics in real time: the key to mine the banana biodiversity for better water use efficiency?
Sebastien Carpentier - KULeuven / Faculty of Bio science engineering, division of Crop Biotechnics – Leuven – Belgium
11:35 – 12:05 Oral Presentation O2: Assessing wheat traits by spectral reflectance: do we really need to focus on predicted trait-values or directly identify the elite genotypes group?
Gustavo Lobos Prats - Universidad de Talca – Talca, Chile
12:05 – 1:30 pm Lunch
Chair and Co-Chair: Luiz A. Colnago and Sylvia M. de Souza Tinoco
1:30 – 2:10 Volatile organic compounds as non-invasive markers for plant phenotyping
Jörg-Peter Schnitzler (HZM - München, Germany)
2:10 – 2:40 Oral Presentation: Chaos Theory and Nonlinear Science: A New Approach to Data Analysis Applied in Plant Phenotyping
Odemir Martinez Bruno - IFSC / USP – São Carlos (SP) - Brazil
2:40 – 3:00 Oral Presentation W1 (27): Open tools for plant phenotyping
Gustavo Pereyra Irujo - INTA - FCA UNMdP – CONICET
3:00 – 3:30 Oral Presentation W2 (23): 3-Demeter: an affordable 3-D phenotyping software
Thiago Santos - Embrapa Agricultural Informatics – Campinas-SP – Brazil
3:30 – 4:00 Coffee Break
 Chair and Co-Chair: Jose Luis Araus Ortega: and Alvaro Otero
4:00 – 4:30 Oral Presentation O4 (39): Non-destructive Fluorescence Spectroscopy based - phenotyping technique for soybeans cultivars discrimination
Aida Bebeachibuli Magalhães on behalf of Débora M. B. P. Milori - Embrapa Instrumentation – São Carlos -SP – Brazil
4:30 – 5:00 Oral Presentation O5 (55): Phenotyping is essential to enhance phosphorus efficiency in maize and sorghum
Sylvia Morais de Sousa - Embrapa Maize and Sorghum - Sete Lagoas (MG) - Brazil
Thursday, September 21
Phenotyping for Crop Improvement
Chair: Ulrich Schurr and Luis Aguirrezabal
8:00 – 8:40 am Phenotyping for crop improvement in a diversity of climatic scenarios
François Tardieu – INRA - Montpellier – France
8:40 – 9:10 Oral Presentation O6: Aluminum stress in plants: an alternative view
Gustavo Habermann - UNESP Institute of Biosciences – Rio Claro-SP – Brazil
9:10 – 9:30 Oral Presentation W3 (3) High-throughput phenotyping as a tool for cotton breeding for drought tolerance
Marc Giban - Cirad - UMR AGAP - Embrapa Cotton - Brazil and Montpellier – France
9:30 – 10:10 Coffee Break - Setup Posters
Chair: Gustavo Lobo Prats and Gustavo Pereyra Irujo
10:10 – 10:50 Automated Phenotyping and Analytics
Michael Schaefer - On behalf of Xavier Sirault - Australian Plant Phenomics Facility, HRPPC/Canberra – Australia
10:50 – 11:20 Oral Presentation O7 (53): Developing plant and crop phenomics in Argentina - A project in progress
Luis Aguirrezabal - EEA Balcarce INTA - FCA UNMdP – Balcare – Argentina
11:20 – 11:40 Oral Presentation W4 (30): Aerial imagery to select maize hybrids to nitrogen use efficiency
Roberto Fritsche-Neto - ESALQ/USP – Piracicaba-SP – Brazil
11:50 – 1:20 Lunch
1:20 – 3:30 pm Coordinator: Paulo Herrmann - Embrapa Instrumentation – São Carlos - SP - Brazil
Round Table “Plant Phenotyping Network and International Cooperation”
- Ulrich Schurr - FZJ/IBG-2 – Jülich - NRW - Germany
- François Tardieu – INRA- Montpellier – France
- Gustavo Lobo Prats – Universidade de Talca - Chile
- Michael Schaefer - Australian Plant Phenomics Facility, HRPPC- Canberra – Australia
- Ricardo Yassushi Inamasu – Embrapa Instrumentation – São Carlos - SP - Brazil
3:30 – 5:30 Poster Session and Coffee Break
Coordinator: Washington L. de B. Melo - Embrapa Instrumentation - São Carlos - SP - Brazil, Maria L. Gerosa Ramos - UNB/FAG - Brasilia - DF - Brazil
7:00 pm Bus picks up attendees at Embrapa Instrumentation
7:30 – 10:30 Confraternization Dinner
10:30 Bus returns to Embrapa Instrumentation
Friday, September 22
Field Plant Phenotyping at Embrapa - Lanapre 
7:30 am Bus picks up attendees at Embrapa Instrumentation
8:10 - 8:50 High throughput field phenotyping: top tech and low cost are not mutually exclusive
Jose Luis Araus Ortega - UB/FB – Barcelona – Spain
Workshop about drones to Plant Phenotyping 
8:50 – 9:30 Measuring and understanding dynamic plants traits in the field – non-invasive plant field phenotyping across scales - Uwe Rascher - FZJ/IBG-2 – Jülich – Germany
9:30 – 9:50 Technical Workshop
Gustavo Bonaventure  - Lemnatec - Aachen  (NRW) - Germany
9:50 – 10:20 Coffee Break
10:20 – 11:30 Workshop about drones to Plant Phenotyping (continuation) -  Lucio Andre de Castro Jorge - Embrapa Instrumentation – São Carlos - Brazil
11:30 - 11:50 Concluding Remarks
11:45 Bus returns to Embrapa Instrumentation
12:00 – 2:00 pm Lunch
2:00 – 4:30 pm Visit at Embrapa Instrumentation Labs
4:30 - 5:00 Coffee break

L# - Key Lectures - 40´ (30´ Lect + 10´ questions);
O# - Oral Presentation - Latin-American researchers and/or scientific committee members - 30´(20´ Lect + 10´ questions);
W# - Oral Presentation selected from the abstracts that was submitted to the conference- 20´ (15´ Lec + 5´ questions.)