International PAG - Rice Blast Workshop

Sunday Afternoon, 13 January 2008 --- 1:15 pm - 3:25 pm

Rice Blast Workshop - Roayl Palm 5 & 6

Organizers:
Ralph Dean, Center for Integrated Fungal Research, North Carolina State University

(ralph_dean@ncsu.edu)

and

Thomas K. Mitchell, Dept. of Plant Pathology, The Ohio State University

(mitchell.815@osu.edu)

Speakers:

1
Hei Leung, Internatinal Rice Research Institute (h.leung@cgiar.org)
"Using Rice Mutants And Near-Isogenic Lines For Dissecting Rice-Blast Interactions"

2
Jin Rong Xu, Purdue University (jinrong@purdue.edu)
"A HDAC complex regulating infectious growth in Magnaporthe grisea"

3
Kshirod Jena, International Rice Research Institute (kjena@rda.go.kr)
"A new gene, Pi40 confers broad-spectrum blast disease resistance and useful in Marker-assisted selection (MAS) for blast resistance in rice"

4
Ryohei Terauchi, Iwate Biotechnology Research Center (terauchi@ibrc.or.jp)
"A search for effectors of Magnaporthe oryzae"

5
Marc Henri Lebrun, Bayer Crop Science (marc-henri.lebrun@bayercropscience.com)
"Fungal secondary metabolism is an essential component of the complex interplay between rice and Magnaporthe"

6
Cari Soderlund, University of Arizona (cari@agcol.arizona.edu)
"Current and Future Directions for MGOS"

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