La Serena, Chile - November 17 - 21, 2025

Towards Cropping Systems Resilient to Complex Stresses

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SCOPE

of the Conference:

Join us at the Eighth InterDrought Congress to tackle one of agriculture’s biggest challenges—drought. As climate change worsens water scarcity, collaboration between disciplines is key to strengthening crop resilience.

Join us to integrate breeding, physiology, agronomy and environmental perspectives to drive innovation. Together, we can make a difference!

Únete al Octavo Congreso InterDrought para enfrentar uno de los mayores desafíos agrícolas: la sequía. Con el cambio climático agravando la escasez de agua, la colaboración es clave para fortalecer la resiliencia de los cultivos. IDVIII es más que un congreso: es un espacio global para compartir ideas, crear alianzas e impulsar la innovación. ¡Juntos podemos marcar la diferencia!

SPEAKERS

Dedication. Expertise. Passion.

AMELIA

Henry

IRRI, Philippines

insight from multi-location studies

Exploring the types of drought that can occur in rice crops

Esteban

Jobbágy

CONICET, Argentina

Agriculture on the edge:

Disentangling the interactions between rainfed fields and their adjacent non-agricultural vegetation in the dry plains of Argentina.

Christophe lambridess - queensland university

Christopher LAMBRIDES

Australia

Implementations of TPE characterization in plant breeding programmes

what worked, and lessons learned

Emilie

MILLET

France

Experimental approaches for drought research

Modelling strategies to integrate GxExM characterizations.

Jill

CAIRNS

Zimbabwe

Experimental approaches for drought research

Integrating biology, phenomics and genomics to predict complex GxExM.

Edmundo

ACEVEDO

Chile

Discussion panel and final remarks

History of drought research and future perspectives

Program

CONFERENCE SESSIONS

simultaneous translation throughout the conference

CO-CHAIR CONFERENCE

inspired to promote the exchange of new ideas, studies, research, challenges and opportunities in interdrought8

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Daniela Bustos-Korts

University Austral of Chile

Co-Chair

She has been involved in developing strategies to build the training set for genomic prediction models and methods for QTL detection in multiple environments.

He is currently working on the synthesis of statistical-genetic models with crop growth models such as APSIM-wheat to evaluate genetic improvement and phenotyping strategies.

Charlie Messina

University of Florida - USA

Co-Chair

His teaching and research program focuses on how to harmonize crop improvement and AI efforts for agricultural systems to regenerate the environment while providing nutrition security, improve human health and adapt to climate change. He leads a team that develops prediction methods by harnessing principles of crop science, dynamical systems modeling (symbolic AI), statistical learning (sub-symbolic AI) and complex systems theory. He collaborates with breeders, engineers and agronomists to co-create systems within operational breeding program.

Welcome to the digital platform of the Eighth InterDrought Congress (IDVIII)! We are excited to welcome you to La Serena—see you there! ¡Bienvenidos a la plataforma digital del Octavo Congreso InterDrought (IDVIII)! ¡Estamos emocionados de darles la bienvenida a La Serena!