13:45 – 14:15 Plenary 2: Dr. Kwasi Agbleke, SITA
The heteroblasticity of flowering plants.
14:15 – 14:35 Speaker 1: Dr. Titus Magomere, Kenyatta University
Harnessing the power of genome editing in species with polyploidy, paleopolyploidy and chromosome inversions in their genomes
14:35 – 14:55 Speaker 2: Dr. Rachita Srivastava, MPI for Plant Breeding
Comparative demographic analysis of Cardamine hirsuta and Arabidopsis thaliana
14:55 – 15:15 Speaker 3: Mr. Sadam Sulaiman Indabo, Ahmadu Bello University
Dissecting genomic regions and underlying candidate genes in groundnut MAGIC population for drought tolerance
15:15 – 15:35 Speaker 4: Ms. Alaa Ahmed, BBRC
Mining the gene pool of Sudanese wild sorghum for durable Striga hermonthica resistance