International PAG - Solanaceae Workshop

Solanceae Workshop Solanceae Workshop

Tuesday Evening, 15 January 2002 --- 7:30 pm - 10:30 pm

Solanaceae Workshop -San Diego Room

Organizer:

Molly Jahn, Cornell

(mmk9@cornell.edu)

Speakers:

7:30 am - 8:00 am Uwe Wirtz, Fusheng Wei, Carl-Erik Tornqvist, Catherine Ronning, Robin Buell, Chris Smart, William Fry,

Steve Tanksley and Barbara Baker *, UC-Berkeley & Plant Gene Expression Center, TIGR, Cornell University
(bbaker@socrates.berkeley.edu)
The NSF-Sponsored Potato Genomics Project.

8:00 am - 8:30 am Steve Tanksley *, Giovannoni, Martin, Wing and Van Eck,

(sdt4@cornell.edu)
NSF-funded Tomato Genomics Project: Progress and Objectives.

8:30 am - 9:00 am Buso, Ferreira and Leonardo Boiteux *,

(boiteux@cnph.embrapa.br)
Integrative Approaches between Molecular Genetics and Breeding of Capsicum in Brazil:
Germplasm Diversity, Disease Resistance and Quality Traits.

9:00 am - 9:30 am Daniel Ilut *, Wright, van der Hoeven, Fulton, and Tanksley,

(dci1@cornell.edu)
Solanaceae Genome Network: A Database And Toolset For Comparative Plant Genomics.

9:30 am - 9:45 am Agim Ballvora *, Maria Raffaella Ercolano, Julia Wei,

Khalid Meksem, Christina Bormann, Francesco Salamini and Christiane Gebhardt, Max-Planck Institut fur Z|chtungsforschung and Southern Illinois University at Carbondale ,
(ballvora@mpiz-koeln.mpg.de)
The R1 Gene for Potato Resistance to Late Blight (Phytophthora infestans) belongs
to the Leucine Zipper/NBS/LRR Class of Plant Resistance Genes

9:45 am - 10:00 am Byoung-Cheorl Kang, Cornell University

(bk54@cornell.edu)
Isolation of a Functional Pto Homolog from Pepper.

10:00 am - brief presentations of posters of general interest

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