About the workshop:

In recent years, a truly impressive number of advances in genetics and genomics have greatly enhanced our understanding of structural and functional aspects of plant genomes. The complete genome sequences of Arabidopsis and rice as well as an enormous number of plant ESTs have become available. In the next several years, the entire genomes or at least gene space will likely be sequenced for most major crops. Several novel genetic and genomics tools/approaches such as association genetics, advanced back-cross QTL analysis, TILLING, EcoTILLING, allele mining, comparative and functional genomics, transcriptomics, genetical genomics, metabolomics, proteomics etc. offer the possibilities to examine and utilize the structural as well as functional genetic variation in crop breeding. We term holistic approach of enhancing the prediction of the phenotype from a genotype using genomics tools/approaches as 'genomics assisted breeding' (GAB) (Varshney et al. 2005, Trends Plant Sci 10: 621 630). In fact, genomics assisted breeding has already shown its potential for crop improvement in several cereal species (Varshney et al. 2006, Trends Biotech doi:10.1016/j.tibtech.2006.08.006).

A critical assessment of the status and availability of genomic resources and genomics research in crop plant species and devising the strategies and approaches for effectively exploiting genomics research for crop improvement is the main objective of this workshop. Genomics specialists having extensive experience in applying genomics in breeding from both public and private sectors share their experience and propose novel ideas in this workshop to use GAB in an efficient manner.

Speakers:

4:40 pm
Rajeev K. Varshney, ICRISAT, India (r.k.varshney@cgiar.org)
"INTRODUCTION"

4:50 pm
Martin Ganal, TraitGenetics GmbH, Gatersleben, Germany (ganal@traitgenetics.de)
"Development of EST-Derived SNP Markers for Plant Breeding"

5:10 pm
Timothy Close, University of California, Riverside, USA (timothy.close@ucr.edu)
"The Story Behind BarleyCAP: Technical aspects, Breeding Objectives and the Pivotol Role of International Cooperation"

5:30 pm
Hei Leung, IRRI, Las Banos, Philippines (h.leung@cgiar.org)
"Integrating Genetic and Transcript Maps for Rice Breeding"

5:50 pm
Beat Keller, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland (bkeller@botinst.unizh.ch)
"Model Genomes and Their Application for Targeted Marker Development in Hexaploid Wheat"

6:10 pm
Douglas Cook, University of California, Davis, USA (drcook@ucdavis.edu)
"From Model Systems To Crop Species: Using Genomics To Understand Legume Evolution And Advance The Study Of Crop Legumes"

6:30 pm
Takuji Sasaki, NIAS, Tsukuba, Japan (tsasaki@nias.affrc.go.jp)
"Applications of the Rice Genome Sequence Information in Breeding"

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