International PAG - Organellar Genetics Workshop

Monday Afternoon, 15 January 2007 --- 4:40 pm - 6:50 pm

Organellar Genetics Workshop

- Royal Palm 1, 2, & 3

Organizer: Michael J. Havey, USDA/ARS

(mjhavey@facstaff.wisc.edu)

Speakers:

1. 4:50 PM
Claude W. dePamphilis, Penn State University (cwd3@psu.edu)
"Plastid Genomes of Parasitic Plants: Distinct paths of evolution in independent heterotrophic lineages"

2. 5:20 PM
Pal Maliga, Waksman Institute at Rutgers University (maliga@waksman.rutgers.edu)
"Biosafety evaluation of plastid transgenes"

3. 5:50 PM
Sally A. Mackenzie, University of Nebraska (smackenzie2@unl.edu)
"Transgenic induction of cytoplasmic male sterility in crop plants by interference with mitochondrial recombination surveillance"

4. 6:20 PM
Koji Murai, Fukui Prefectural University, Japan (murai@fpu.ac.jp)
"A nuclear-mitochondrial interaction leads to pistillody, homeotic transformation of stamens into pistil-like structures, in wheat"


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