International PAG - Forage & Turf Plants: Gene Expression and Transformation Workshop


Saturday Morning, 12 January 2002 --- 9:00 am - 11:45 am

Forage & Turf Plants Workshop - Pacific Salon 1 & 2 Rooms

Organizers:

German Spangenberg, Agriculture Victoria
(german.spangenberg@nre.vic.gov.au)

and

Reed E. Barker, USDA/ARS
(barkerr@ucs.orst.edu)

Speakers:

9:00 am - 9:05 am : Introduction

9:05 am - 9:25 am German Spangenberg, Agriculture Victoria

(german.spangenberg@nre.vic.gov.au)
Genetic Manipulation of Biosynthetic Pathways and
Developmental Processes in Forage Grasses and Legumes

9:25 am - 9:45 am Francesco Paolocci, Istituto di Ricerchi sul Miglioramento Genetico delle Piante Forragere del CNR

(f.paolocci@irmgpf.pg.cnr.it)
Molecular Dissection of Proanthocyanidin Biosynthesis in Lotus corniculatus

9:45 am - 10:05 am Peggy Ozias-Akins, University of Georgia

(ozias@tifton.cpes.peachnet.edu)
Quest for Apomixis Genes in Grasses

10:05 am - 10:25 am Hitoshi Nakagawa, National Institute of Livestock and Grassland Science

(ngene@ngri.affrc.go.jp)
Isolation of Differentially Expressed cDNAs from Apomictic Ovaries in Guineagrass by Microarrays

10:25 am - 10:45 am Ulrik John, Agriculture Victoria

(ulrik.john@nre.vic.gov.au)
Xeno-Genomics: Gene Discovery in Native and Exotic Grasses for Abiotic Stresses

10:45 am - 11:05 am Deborah Samac, USDA/ARS

(debbys@puccini.cdl.umn.edu)
Genetic Manipulation of Alfalfa and Medicago truncatula for Organic Acid Secretion and Metal Tolerance

11:05 am - 11:25 am Tim Sawbridge, Agriculture Victoria

(tim.sawbridge@nre.vic.gov.au)
EST Discovery and Microarray-based Expression Profiling in Lolium perenne and Neotyphodium Endophytes

11:25 am - 11:45 am Greg May, The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation

(gdmay@noble.org)
An Integrated Approach to Medicago truncatula Functional Genomics

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