International PAG - Weedy and Invasive Plant Genomics Workshop

Tuesday, 15 January 2008 --- 10:20 am - 12:30 pm

Weedy and Invasive Plant Genomics Workshop - Royal Palm Salon 4, 5, & 6

Organizer:

Neil Stewart, University of Tennessee

(nealstewart@utk.edu)

Speakers:

1, 10:20-10:40
Jeff Bennettzen, University of Georgia (maize@uga.edu)
"Genome Analysis, Systematics And Genetic Diversity In Witchweed (Striga Spp.) "

2, 10:40-11:00
Katrina Dlugosch, University of British Columbia (katrina.dlugosch@gmail.com)
"Expressed sequence variation among native and introduced yellow starthistle (Centaurea solstitialis) populations"

3, 11:00-11:20
Michael Foley, USDA-ARS, Fargo, ND (Michael.Foley@ARS.USDA.GOV)
"Positional Cloning of a Seed Dormancy QTL from Weedy Rice (Oryza sativa)"

4, 11:20-11:40
Scott Baerson, USDA-ARS, Oxford, MS (sbaerson@olemiss.edu)
"Identifying Key Enzymes Involved in the Biosynthesis of Allelopathic Phenolic Lipids in Cereal Crops via Functional Genomics"

5, 11:40-12:00
Yi Li, University of Connecticut (yi.li@uconn.edu)
"Gene-Deletor: A New Tool To Address Potential Invasive And Gene Flow Problems of Transgenic Bioenergy Crops"

6, 12:00-12:20
Rick Kesseli, University of Massachusetts, Boston (rick.kesseli@umb.edu)
"Genomic revolutions: the evolution of knotweed, knapweed and nasty composites"

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