International PAG - Use of Molecular Markers for Plant Breeders Workshop


Saturday Afternoon, 13 January 2007 --- 1:15 pm - 3:25 pm

Use of Molecular Markers for Plant Breeders Workshop - Golden Ballroom

Organizers: Zhi-Kang Li, IRRI

(z.li@cgiar.org)

and

Qifa Zhang, Huazhong Agricultural University
(qifazh@public.wh.hb.cn)
and

Jinguo Hu, USDA/ARS
(huj@fargo.ars.usda.gov)

Speakers:

13:15 - 13:20
Jinguo Hu, ()
"Welcome and Opening Remarks"

1. 13:20 - 13:40
Zhi-Kang Li, Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (lizhk@caas.net.cn)
"High Order Epistasis Affecting Complex Traits in Rice: An Exception or a Norm"

2. 13:40 - 14:00
Prasanna Bhat, Department of Botany & Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, CA, 92521, USA (prasanb@ucr.edu )
"High-Throughput SNP Genotyping and Mapping in Barley Provide Ample Markers f or Plant Breeders"

3. 14:00 - 14:20
Louis Bradbury, Centre for Plant Conservation Genetics, Southern Cross University, Lismore, NSW 2480 Australia ( l.bradbury.10@scu.edu.au )
"Generation of Simple, Perfect Markers for Cereal Quality Traits"

4. 14:20 - 14:40
William Angus, Nickerson-Advanta, Woolpit Business Park, Woolpit, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk IP30 0RA UK (wjangus@nickerson.co.uk)
"The Role Of Marker Assisted Selection In A Commercial Wheat Breeding Programme"

5. 14:40 - 15:00
Gerard van der Linden, Business Unit Biodiversity and Breeding, Plant Research International, 7608 PB Wageningen, Netherlands (gerard.vanderlinden@wur.nl )
"Motif-directed Profiling: Markers in Multiple Candidate Genes"

6. 15:00 - 15:20
Mehmet Cakir, Molecular Plant breeding CRC/WA State Agricultural Biotechnology Center, Murdoch University, Murdoch, WA 6150, Australia (M.Cakir@murdoch.edu.au)
"Genome level targeted breeding in wheat"

15:20 - 15:25
Zhikang Li, ()
"General Discussion and Closing Remarks"


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