Day 1 Tuesday 25^th Feb

10:00-12:00     Arrival and registration, Jodrell Building, RBG Kew.

12:00-13:00     Lunch (standing in Wolfson Atrium)

13:00-13:05 Welcome by Caspar Chater (Lady Lisa Lecture Theatre)

13:05-14:30 Session 1 Legume Genetics and Genomics I (Lady Lisa Lecture Theatre). Chair: Caspar Chater

13:05-13:45 Keynote Presenter: Noam Chayut (John Innes Centre – Germplasm Resource Unit): From Mendel’s Peas to Global Crop Diversification: The Role of Genebank-Omics

13:45-14:00 Selected from abstract: Zhe Ji: Variant Auxin Dynamics During Pea Pod Development

14:00-14:15 Selected from abstract Jasmine Staples: Unlocking the Potential of Grass Pea: Improving Nutritional Traits Through Investigation of Natural Diversity

14:15-14:30 Selected from abstract: Mark Bal: Genetic mapping of pod apex shape in Pisum sativum

14:30-15:00 Coffee/tea break (Wolfson Atrium)

15:00-16:30 Session 2 Food and Cropping Systems (Lady Lisa Lecture Theatre). Chair: TBA

15:00-15:20 Keynote Presenter: Charlotte White (ADAS): Faba bean ideal root traits and how to measure them

15:20-15:35 Selected from abstract: Roi Maor: Accurate soybean traceability to facilitate stable UK supply under new trade regulations

15:35-15:50 Selected from abstract: Umut Kartal: Integrating Legume-Based Rotations and Large-Scale Environmental Assessment for Sustainable Crop Production

15:50-16:05 Selected from abstract: Rispah N. Ng’ang’a: Tiny Legumes, Big Mysteries: Exploring the Allergenic Potential of Peas

16:05-16:20 Selected from abstract: Tom Robertson-Shersby-Harvie: Molecular genetic mapping of induced and natural protein quality variation in faba bean

16:25-16:55     Selected Poster flash talks. Lady Lisa Lecture Theatre:

1. Jhih-Sheng Liu: Genomic improvement of persistence in white clover
2. Eleni Vikeli: Unveiling Genetic Diversity in the UK Pea Germplasm Collection
3. Catherine Howarth: Legumes in Action: Insights from Faba Bean-Oat Intercropping Trials
4. Megan Fisher: Like Peas in a Pod: What role does inactivation play in hormonal control of pod elongation?
5. Henry Jennings: Rapid Metabolomic Fingerprinting for Soybean Traceability
6. Disha Lodha: Supporting the Legumes community with Ensembl

17:00-18.00     Poster session in seminar room and Wolfson Atrium. Drinks reception

18:00-21:00     Conference Dinner at the Botanist on the Green

Day 2 Wednesday 26^th Feb

9:30-11:00 Session 3 Legume Genetics and Genomics II (Lady Lisa Lecture Theatre). Chair: TBA

9:30-10:10 Keynote Presenter: Myriam Charpentier (John Innes Centre): Title: TBA

10:10-10:35 Gwilym Lewis: From Bentham to the present- a retrospective of legume taxonomy at Kew

10:40-10:55 Selected from abstract: Paola Tosi: Raising the Pulse’: systems analysis of the environmental, nutritional and health benefits of pulse-enhanced foods.

11:00-11:30 Coffee/tea break (in Wolfson Atrium)

11:30-15:00 Session 4 Beneficial organisms and Symbiosis (Lady Lisa Lecture Theatre). Chair: TBA

11:30-12:10 Keynote Presenter: Charlotte Apsey (University of Cambridge): Optimising pollination in Vicia faba

12:15-13:30     Lunch (in Wolfson Atrium)

13:30-13:45 Selected from abstract Gloria Mate-Koncz: From Starch to Short-Chain Fatty Acids: Understanding Fava Bean Digestion

13:45-14:00 Selected from abstract: Yingzhi Gao: Transcriptomic insights into the potential impacts of flavonoids and nodule-specific cysteine-rich peptides on nitrogen fixation in Vicia villosa and Vicia sativa

14:00-14:20 from abstract: Katharina Schiessl: Getting to the root of symbiotic root nodule development

14:20-14:55     Selected Poster flash talks. Lady Lisa Lecture Theatre:

1. Emily Guest: NCS: Investigating the role of legumes in Nitrogen Climate-Smart agriculture
2. Tegan Tyzack: The Quest for Mineral-Enriched Peas: Investigating the genetic basis of low-phytate and high-iron peas.
3. Lovely Mae F. Lawa: Assessing pollen viability for improved reproductive heat tolerance in cowpea
4. James Brett: The Legume Generation Project
5. Chinemerem Akamihe: Can increased stomatal density enhance reproductive tolerance to stress?

15:00-15:30 Coffee/tea break (in Wolfson Atrium)

15:30-17:00 Session 5 Stresses – biotic and abiotic stress (Lady Lisa Lecture Theatre). Chair: Lars Østergaard

15:30-16:10 Keynote Presenter: Caspar Chater (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew): Legume crops for climate mitigation and adaptation

16:10-16:25 Selected from abstract: Kate Denning-James: Drought tolerance in Common Beans

16:25-16:40 Selected from abstract: Fiona Corke: High throughput drought screening of diverse pea germplasm.

16:40-16:55 Selected from abstract: TBC

16:55-17:00 Final UKLRC words

Day 3 Thursday 27^th Feb

PCGIN: The finalized programme is now available here: PCGIN stakeholder meeting agenda