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Speakers:

1) 10:25 am
Laurel D Cooper, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR USA (cooperl@onid.orst.edu)
"Characterization of plant growth types in ryegrass using molecular markers"

2) 10:45 am
John Vogel, USDA-ARS Western Regional Research Center, Albany, CA USA (jvogel@pw.usda.gov)
"Mapping and marker development for energy crops: Progress on switchgrass and the model grass Brachypodium distachyon"

3) 11:05 am
Malay Saha, The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Ardmore. OK USA (mcsaha@noble.org)
"Marker-assisted selection: A strategy for increasing forage digestibility"

4) 11:25 am
Iain Donnison, Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research, Aberystwyth, Wales, UK (iain.donnison@bbsrc.ac.u)
"Phenotyping and mapping quality traits for bioenergy in grasses"

5) 11:45 am
Thomas Lbberstedt, Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Slagelse, Denmark (thomas.luebberstedt@agrsci.dk)
"Development of allele-specific markers in ryegrass (GRASP)"

6) 12:05 pm
Odd Arne Rognli, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway (odd-arne.rognli@umb.no)
""QTLs, candidate genes and SNPs associated with cold acclimation and frost tolerance in forage grasses""

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