Omics and Biotechnological Approaches for Product Profile-Driven Sorghum Improvement

Prof. Dr. Ephrem Habyarimana is a Principal Scientist, head of Sorghum Breeding at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics headquartered in Patancheru, Telangana, India; he is also a Professor of Agricultural Genetics at the University of Agricultural Sciences, Raichur, Karnataka, India. He has more than 25 years of experience in crop science, genetics, and plant breeding with a particular focus on sorghum, integrating diverse technologies and skills i.e., agroecological and genomic modeling, big data analytics e.g., phenomics, genomics for sustainable, resilient, cost-effective, environment and biodiversity-friendly crop improvement, and for optimizing the breeding program to deliver higher rates of genetic gains. He trained in North and Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Europe, and authored several specialized scientific articles and books as documented under Scopus and other certified databases. He is recognized as an inventor by the European Commission in the fields of Exploratory and market-ready DeepTech innovations, and he was a finalist for the 2019 European DataSci & Artificial Intelligence Awards

Dr. Muhammad Azhar Nadeem, working as an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Technologies, Sivas University of Science and Technology, Türkiye has documented great skills and expertise in crop science, plant genomics, and molecular plant breeding. Dr. Nadeem has been actively engaged in research activities involving the assessment of genetic diversity, and population structure and performing genome-wide association studies (GWAS) for the identification of genomic regions associated with the traits of interest. Dr. Nadeem has numerous research publications and has served as the editor and co-editor of four published books.

Dr. Faheem Shehzad Baloch is working as Professor of plant genetics and breeding at Mersin University, Turkey. He received his Ph.D. with a dissertation on 'QTL mapping in wheat' from University of Çukurova, Adana, Turkey. He has more than 11 years of teaching and research experience in the plant phenomics, genetics and genomics, and biotechnology. He has led and participated in many projects funded by national and international organizations. He has visited more than 30 countries over different continents for research and collaborative purposes and serve as Management Committee and active member of various COST actions and playing important roles in different work packages of various COST actions. He has more than 120 SCI publications in WOS and edited 9 books and written over 19 book chapters on important aspects of molecular genetics in relation to plant species. He has extensive array of citations with over 4300 times as per google scholar with an h-Index of 35. He serves as Editorial board member of several high impact factor journals.

Dr. Nusret Zencirci is a graduate of Çukurova University, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Field Crops. He worked as a wheat breeder in the Central Research Institute for Field Crops, Ankara and served as National and international Coordinator to Wheat programs including International Winter Wheat Improvement Program carried by Türkiye, CIMMIYT, and ICARDA. He is a molecular biology professor now at Bolu Abant İzzet Baysal University, Science and Art Faculty, Biology Department, Bolu, Turkey. He is a member of various editorial boards in many international journals. He is, with his team, breeder of 22 bread and durum wheat cultivars. His research interests are Cereals, Biotic and Abiotic Stresses, Plant Genetic Resources, and Wheat Breeding.

教授 Dr. Ephrem Habyarimana 是國際半乾旱熱帶作物研究所的首席科學家，負責高粱育種，該所總部位於印度特倫甘納邦的帕坦切魯。他同時也是印度卡納塔克邦拉伊丘爾農業科學大學的農業遺傳學教授。他在作物科學、遺傳學和植物育種方面擁有超過25年的經驗，特別專注於高粱，整合多樣的技術和技能，包括農生態學和基因組建模、大數據分析（例如表型學、基因組學），以實現可持續、韌性強、具成本效益、環境友好和生物多樣性友好的作物改良，並優化育種計劃以提供更高的遺傳增益率。他曾在北美、拉丁美洲、非洲、亞洲和歐洲接受培訓，並撰寫了多篇專業科學文章和書籍，這些作品已在 Scopus 和其他認證數據庫中記錄。他被歐洲委員會認可為發明人，專注於探索性和市場準備的深科技創新，並曾是2019年歐洲數據科學與人工智慧獎的決賽入圍者。

Dr. Muhammad Azhar Nadeem 目前擔任土耳其西瓦斯科技大學農業科學與技術學院的副教授，在作物科學、植物基因組學和分子植物育種方面擁有卓越的技能和專業知識。Nadeem 博士積極參與研究活動，評估遺傳多樣性和群體結構，並進行全基因組關聯研究（GWAS），以識別與感興趣性狀相關的基因組區域。他擁有多篇研究出版物，並擔任四本已出版書籍的編輯和共同編輯。

Dr. Faheem Shehzad Baloch 目前在土耳其梅爾辛大學擔任植物遺傳學和育種教授。他在土耳其阿達納的Çukurova大學獲得博士學位，論文主題為「小麥的QTL定位」。他在植物表型學、遺傳學和基因組學以及生物技術方面擁有超過11年的教學和研究經驗。他主導並參與了許多由國家和國際組織資助的項目，並為不同大陸的研究和合作目的訪問了超過30個國家，擔任多個COST行動的管理委員會成員和活躍成員，在各種COST行動的不同工作包中扮演重要角色。他在WOS上擁有超過120篇SCI出版物，編輯了9本書籍，並撰寫了19篇有關植物物種分子遺傳學重要方面的書章。根據Google Scholar，他的引用次數超過4300次，h-Index為35。他還擔任多本高影響因子期刊的編輯委員會成員。

Dr. Nusret Zencirci 是土耳其Çukurova大學農業學院田間作物系的畢業生。他曾在安卡拉的中央田間作物研究所擔任小麥育種師，並擔任包括土耳其、CIMMYT和ICARDA主辦的國際冬小麥改良計劃在內的小麥項目的國家和國際協調員。現在，他是土耳其博盧阿班特伊茲特貝薩爾大學科學與藝術學院生物學系的分子生物學教授。他是多本國際期刊的編輯委員會成員。他和他的團隊育成了22個麵包小麥和硬小麥品種。他的研究興趣包括穀物、生物和非生物壓力、植物遺傳資源以及小麥育種。