Plant Health: Challenges and Solutions

The workshop is organized by University of Worcester, UK and Selcuk University, Turkey with support of British Council, Newton Fund. The workshop is intended that the new plant breeding aspects should be kept broad in order to provide opportunity to the science community to present their works that can be off value for agriculture. We intended to bring three community together, namely science, research and private investment, in a friendly environment of Antalya/Turkey to share what they have and get benefit from each other. The workshop will highlight current applications of new technologies for plant health. This will include identifying challenges in the field and reviewing the current tools and technologies available for providing advancing solutions to the problems in the field. The workshop aims to bring together leading researchers and mentors, young early career research scientists and industrialists for the plant breeding sectors, providing a unique opportunity for exchanging knowledge, sharing best practice in crop improvement and networking Participants will get benefits that; -An updated knowledge of the latest DNA analysis technologies and quantitative and statistical genetic techniques applied to crop improvement. - A detailed description of the new genomic techniques and the applications on identification of plant diseases and plant health - Appropriate research and knowledge transfer opportunities. - Opportunities for international collaboration between the main groups working in the area. -Identification of areas to collaborate on new analytical tools.