IN INOCULANTS Nodulaid - 17th International Nitrogen Fixation ...

16:30 - 16:50 Felix Dakora
Tshwane University of Technology,
South Africa
Identifying cowpea genotypes that
increase nitrogen contribution,
household food security, and human
nutrition/health in Africa
Tuesday 29 November 2011
Emilio Jiménez-Vicente
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
The FdxN protein is required for the
biosynthesis and activity of the NifDK
and NifH nitrogenase components in
Azotobacter vinelandii
Tadashi Yokoyama
Tokyo University of Agriculture and
Technology, Japan
Genetic diversity of native soybean
and mungbean bradyrhizobia from
different topographical regions
along the southern slopes of the
Himalayan Mountains in Nepal
08:00 - 17:30 Registration desk open
09:00 - 10:30 PleNARY SeSSIoN Chair: Clive Ronson, Room: Sirius
09:00 - 09:30 Wayne reeve
Centre for Rhizobium Studies, Murdoch
University, Australia
The GEBA - Root Nodule Bacteria Community Sequencing Project
09:30 - 10:00 Michael Hynes
Glycerol utilization by Rhizobium leguminosarum requires an ABC
University of Calgary, Canada
transporter and affects competition for nodulation
10:00 - 10:30 Phil Poole
John Innes Centre, UK
Metabolic transitions of Rhizobium from rhizosphere to bacteroid
10:30 - 11:00 Morning Tea
11:00 - 12:20 coNcURReNT SeSSIoN 4:
coNcURReNT SeSSIoN 5:
coNcURReNT SeSSIoN 6:
Applications of New Technologies Bacteroids & Symbiosomes
field Applications II
Chair Ravi Tiwari Michael Hynes Felix Dakora
Room Sirius Pleiades Orion
11:00 - 11:20 Pascal Gamas
Hauke Hennecke
lori Phillips
CNRS-INRA, France
ETH, Institute of Microbiology, Swithzerland DPI-Vic, Australia
Molecular dissection of the
New facets of Bradyrhizobium
Comparative diversity of
rhizobium-legume interaction by japonicum carbon metabolism and rhizosphere and endophytic
RNA seq and laser micro-dissection copper trafficking which support microbial communities in faba
approaches
bacteroid function
cropping systems
11:20 - 11:40 Xavier Perret
David Day
Kanjana chansa-ngavej
University of Geneva, Switzerland
Flinders University, Australia
Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
Profiling the symbiotic responses Identification of transport
Selection and field trials of
of Sinorhizobium fredii strain
proteins on the symbiosome
soybean rhizobium biofertilizers
NGR234 with RNA-seq
membrane in soybean
with DNA fingerprints and can be
kept at room temperature
11:40 - 12:00 David chiasson
Youguo li
nicole Seymour
The University of Adelaide, Australia
Huazhong Agricultural University, China DEEDI, Australia
The use of heterologous expression Identification of a novel symbiotic Nitrogen fertiliser reduces
systems to characterise the function gene participating in synthesis of nodulation of mungbean but gives
of the soybean transcription
a bacteroid-specific electron carrier no yield advantage in central
factor GmSAT1
menaquinone
Queensland trials
12:00 - 12:20 Elena Dolgikh
Vanessa Melino
All-Russia Research Institute for
Centre for Rhizobium Studies,
Agricultural Microbiology (ARRIAM), Russia Murdoch University, Australia
New application of N2-fixing organisms: Inside out: an in-depth characterisation
heterologous expression of rhizobial of effective (Fix
glycosylatransferases involved in
chitin oligosaccharides synthesis
+ ), sub-optimal
(Fix partial ) and ineffective (Fix- ryan Farquharson
CSIRO Land And Water, Australia
Symbiotic performance of a
herbicide tolerant Medicago littoralis
)
N2-fixation in Trifolium symbiosis
12:20 - 13:30 Lunch – Atrium
13:30 - 15:00 PleNARY SeSSIoN Chair: Craig Atkins, Room: Sirius
13:30 - 14:00 Graham o’Hara
Centre for Rhizobium Studies,
Murdoch University, Australia
Fifteen years of revolution in legume N-fixation in southern Australia
14:00 - 14:30 Michael udvardi
The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, USA
Functional genomics of symbiotic nitrogen fixation in legumes
14:30 - 15:00 clive ronson
University of Otago, NZ
The requirement for exopolysaccharide in the Mesorhizobium-Lotus symbiosis
15:00 - 16:00 PoSTeR SeSSIoN 1 (Even numbers) /Afternoon Tea
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