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


Saturday Morning, 16 January 2005 --- 8:00 am - 10:10 am

Forage & Turf Plants Workshop - Pacific Salon 1 & 2

Organizers:

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

and

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

Speakers:

8:00 AM
Introduction

1. 8:02 AM
Peter Gresshoff
(p.gresshoff@botany.uq.edu.au)
University of Queensland, Australia
Legume Nodulation Gene Discovery

2. 8:20 AM
Chris Schardl
(schardl@uky.edu)
University of Kentucky, USA
Synthesis of Ergot and Loline Alkaloids in Grass Endophytes

3. 8:38 AM
Noel Cogan
(noel.cogan@dpi.vic.gov.au)
Plant Biotechnology Centre, Primary Industries Research Victoria, Australia
Gene-associated SNPs for Superior Allele Identification in Applied Breeding of Outbreeding Pasture Species

4. 9:56 AM
Joe Gallagher
(joe.gallagher@bbsrc.ac.uk)
Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research, UK
Implications of Co-expression of Invertases and Fructosyl Transferases in Lolium

5. 9:14 AM
Chris Love
(christopher.love@dpi.vic.gov.au)
Plant Biotechnology Centre, Primary Industries Research Victoria, Australia
ASTRA: Integrated Bioinformatics Tools for Ryegrass and White Clover Genomics

6. 9:32 AM
Zeng-yu Wang
(zywang@noble.org)
The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Ardmore, OK USA
Increased Accumulation of Cuticular Waxes and Enhanced Drought Tolerance of Transgenic Alfalfa by Over-expressing a Transcription Factor Gene

7. 9:50 AM
Igor Kardailsky
(igor.kardailsky@agresearch.co.nz)
AgResearch Grasslands, Palmerston North, NZ
Controlled Flowering Project for Lolium perenne at AgResearch

10:08 AM
Discussion



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