Speakers:

8:20 AM
Paul Moore
(pmoore@pbarc.ars.usda.gov)
USDA/ARS
INTRODUCTION

8:30 AM
Yong-Bao Pan
(ypan@srrc.ars.usda.gov)
USDA, ARS, SRRC
HIGHLY POLYMORPHIC MICROSATELLITE DNA MARKERS FOR U.S. SUARCANE GERMPLASM EVALUATION AND VARIETY FINGERPRINTING

9:00 AM
Ouzi Amouyal
(oamoya10@scu.edu.au)
Southern Cross University, Australia
DEVELOPMENT AND USE OF SNP MARKERS TO VERIFY GENE HAPLOTYPES IN SUGARCANE

9:30 AM
Andrzej Kilian
(a.kilian@diversityarrays.com)
Diveresity Arrays Technology, Canberra
DEVELOPMENT OF DIVERSITY ARRAYS TECHNOLOGY (DART) FOR SUGARCANE

10:00 AM
COFFEE BREAK
10:30 AM
John Bowers
(jebowers@uga.edu)
University of Georgia
BRIDGING THE AUTOPOLYPLOID SUGARCANE GENOME WITH THE EMERGING RICE SEQUENCE USING A DETAILED PHYSICAL MAP FOR CLOSELY -RELATED SORGHUM

11:00 AM
Glaucia M. Souza
(glmsouza@iq.usp.br)
University of Sao Paulo
TRANSCRIPTIONAL PROFILING OF SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION-RELATED GENES IN SUGARCANE TISSUES

11:30 AM
Mona Damaj
(mdamaj@mail.bio.tamu.edu)
Texas A&M University
COORDINATED DEFENSE RESPONSES IN SUGARCANE REVEALED BY TRANSCRIPTIONAL PROFILING

12:00 PM
Juliana Felix
(felix@unicamp.br)
University of Campinas
A ROLE FOR SUCROSE TRANSPORTERS IN SUCROSE ACCUMULATION: DATAMINING, CHARACTERIZATION AND EXPRESSION ANALYSIS OF PUTATIVE SUGAR TRANSPORTERS IN SUGARCANE

12:30 PM
LUNCH

1:30 PM
Kimberley Ritter
(kimberley.ritter@csiro.au)
CSIRO Plant Industry
INVESTIGATING THE USE OF SWEET SORGHUM AS A MODEL FOR SUGAR ACCUMULATION IN SUGARCANE

2:00 PM
Tichaona Mangwende
(tmangwende@harc-hspa.com)
HAWAII AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER
THE P0 PROTEIN OF SUGARCANE YELLOW LEAF VIRUS IS A SUPPRESSOR OF POSTTRANSCRIPTIONAL GENE SILENCING

2:30 PM
Stevens M. Brumbley
(SBrumbley@bses.org.au)
BSES Limited
DEVELOPMENT OF SUGARCANE AS A BIOFACTORY FOR BIOPOLYMERS

3:00 PM
DISCUSSION

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