Date

Time

Activities

Location

November 20^th (Wednesday), Forenoon

9:00-9:10

Opening Remarks and Research Areas Introduction  (Dean and Professor XUE Hongwei)

Rm 104, Bld B

Chair: XUE Hongwei

9:10-9:20

Welcoming Speech

9:20-10:10

Presentation 1&2:

Invited talk: Norman Scott

1. “Cornell Initiative for Digital Agriculture (CIDA): A Cross-Cutting Interdisciplinary Initiative”

2. “Smart/Digital AG: A Vision to Create the Future for Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources”

10:10-10:30

Group photo and coffee break

10:30-11:00

Presentation 3:

Invited talk: Susheng Gan

“Plant Senescence in Precision and Sustainable Agriculture”

Chair: FANG Yapeng

11:00-11:30

Presentation 4:

Invited talk: Zhulieta Hritova Arnaudova

“State-of-the-art and perspectives of student training in sustainable and precision agriculture at the Agricultural University – Plovdiv, Bulgaria”

11:30-12:00

Presentation 5:

Invited talk: Atanas Sevov

“Bulgarian-Chinese Cooperation for Sustainable Agricultural development”

12:00-13:30

Lunch

November 20^th (Wednesday), Afternoon

Session 1 Physiological Basis of Precision Breeding

13:30-14:00

Presentation 6:

Invited talk: Jocelyn Rose

“High Resolution Expression Profiling of Crop Surfaces: a Step towards Food Security”

Chair: Susheng Gan

14:00-14:30

Presentation 7:

Invited talk: ZHU Xinguang

“Strategies to Improve Crop Photosynthetic Light Use Efficiency”

14:30-15:00

Presentation 8:

Invited talk: Dan Luo

“Point-of-care Tests, DNA Materials, and Agricultural Applications”

15:00-15:30

Coffee break

Session 2 Precision Management and Industry

15:30-16:00

Presentation 9:

Invited talk: LI Minzan

“Agricultural Sensors in Precision Agriculture”

Chair: ZHANG Caixi

16:00-16:30

Presentation 10:

Invited talk: ZHANG Caixi

“Challenges and Opportunities for Tree Fruit Precision Cultivation”

16:30-17:00

Presentation 11:

Invited talk: GONG Liang

“Automation and Artificial Intelligence in Crop Plant Phenotyping for Precise Breeding”

17:00-17:30

Presentation 12:

Invited talk: ZHANG Jingjin

“Prospects for Plant Factory Technology”

November 21^st  (Thursday), Forenoon

 Session 3 Sustainable Agriculture and Changing Environment

9:00-9:30

Presentation 13:

Invited talk: Robert Henry

“Genomics to Deliver Future Food Security”

Chair: ZHU Xinguang

9:30-10:00

Presentation 14:

Invited talk: Benny Chefetz

“Crop Irrigation with Low Quality of Water: Challenges and Solutions”

10:00-10:30

Presentation 15:

Invited talk: Aliza Fleischer

“Technology in Agriculture and Climate Change - The Israeli Story”

10:30-11:00

Presentation 16:

Invited talk: HUANG Danfeng

“Research & Development of Fertigation in Greenhouse Vegetable Production”

11:00-12:00

Open discussion

Chair: ZHU Xinguang and ZHANG Caixi