Conference

International Scientific Conference - Plant genetic resources: opportunities and challenges.

● An invitation card

● Program

The conference was held on May 22-24, 2024 in Tbilisi, organized by the Scientific Research Center of Agriculture, with the financial support of Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation of Georgia - Project # MG ISE 23 2161.
After the Plenary session three sections were held:
1. Management and utilization of plant genetic resources for sustainable agriculture;
2. Wild plant genetic resources, conservation and ecosystem services;
3. Climate change and plant biodiversity.
About 150 scientists and researchers from 14 countries of the world participated in the conference. 104 theses were presented (65 Georgian, 39 foreign), the number of authors' theses was 260.
Bilingual Collection of abstracts in Georgian and English were published.

● BOOK OF ABSTRACTS

The purpose of the International Conference was to share and disseminate scientific knowledge and current achievements of international and regional countries in the direction of plant sustainable management and conservation of biodiversity, which is important not only from a scientific point of view, but also from a practical point view. The conference also aimed to establish close and long-term cooperation among experts in this field from different countries, as well as to raise awareness of need for sustainable management of genetic resources; which is an important component for achieving practical results.

PRESENTATIONS

●  Czech National Programme for the Conservation and Utilization of PGR

● Conservation of Genetic Resources of Horticultural Plants in the Field Collections of the National Institute of Horticultural Research in Skierniewice, Poland

●  Knowledge and Information About Forest Genetic Resources of Georgia and the Challenges of Reporting at the International Level

●  Characterization of gluten genes of Georgian endemic wheat for sustainable wheat production

● ● ● ●  აღმოსავლეთ საქართველოს ნახევრად არიდულ და არიდულ რეგიონებში გავრცელებული საქართველოს ფლორის იშვიათი და გადაშენების საფრთხის წინაშე მყოფი მცენარეები

● ABIOTIC STRESS TOLERANCE & GRAPEVINE BIODIVERSITY: phenotyping activities for climate change adaptation

● ქართული ხორბლის გენოფონდი - მისი გენეტიკური და სელექციური მნიშვნელობა

● Ex situ conservation wild plant genetic resources of Georgia in partnership with the Millennium Seed Bank, RBG, Kew (UK)

● Engineering fig (Ficus carica L.) as a new fresh fruit crop

● Conservation of Genetic Resources of Horticultural Plants in the Field Collections of the National Institute of Horticultural Research in Skierniewice, Poland

● DNA barcoding of tree endemic Campanula species from Artvin , Türkiye

● ვაზის ქართული ჯიშები და მათი გამძლეობა ნაცრის მიმართ (Erysiphe necator Schwein) კონტროლირებად პირობებში

● ეთნობოტანიკური კვლევის შედეგები გოდერძის უღელტეხილის მოიალაღეებში

● The Role and Importance of Botanical Gardens in Ex situ Conservation of Rare Plants at Regional Scale

● MODELING THE DISTRIBUTION AREAS OF Lo nicera caucasica P all . IN THE CAUCASUS MOUNTAINS AND SURROUNDING

● Plant Genetic Resources Conservation System in Lithuania

● საქართველოს ტყის იშვიათი და გადაშენების პირას მყოფი სახეობების ინვენტარიზაცია და საკონსერვაციო უბნების იდენტიფიცირება

● Wild Grapevine Vitis vinifera ssp. sylvestris Gmel . in Georgia: Research and Preservation

● Forest restoration strategies after disaster disturbances - examples from Polish forestry

● აღმოსავლეთ საქართველოს არიდული ჰაბიტატების მცენარეთა გვალვაგამძლეობის ბიოქიმ იური მექანიზმები

● To Obtain High Productive Drought Tolerant Legume crops’ New Varieties by Using the Irradiation Mutagenesis

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Photos of the conference