International PAG - Generation Challenge Program Workshop

Monday, 12 January 2009 --- 12:50 pm - 3:00 pm

Generation Challenge Program Workshop

--- Royal Palm Salon 4, 5, & 6

Organizers: Jean Christophe Glaszmann, CIRAD, France

(glaszmann@cirad.fr)

and

Rajeev K. Varshney, ICRISAT, India

(r.k.varshney@cgiar.org)


Speakers:

12.50 pm
Jean-Christophe Glaszmann, CIRAD, Montpellier, France (glaszmann@cirad.fr )
"Phylogeographic Evidence of Crop Neo-Diversity in Sorghum"

1.10 pm
Alain Ghesquiere, IRD/CNRS/Perpignan University, Montpellier, France (Alain.Ghesquiere@ird.fr)
"Exploiting Natural Variation in Rice: Construction of Chromosome Segment Substitution Lines (CSSLs) and Interspecific Bridges (Ibridges)"

1.30 pm
Tim Setter, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA (TLS1@cornell.edu)
"Association Mapping In Maize to Improve Drought Tolerance"

1.50 pm
Douglas Cook, University of California- Davis, USA (drcook@ucdavis.edu)
"Comparative Genomics of the Papilionoid Legume Subfamily"

2.10 pm
Jesse Poland, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA (jap226@cornell.edu)
"Genetic Dissection of Quantitative Disease Resistance in Maize"

2.30 pm
Scott Chapman, CSIRO Plant Industry, St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia (scott.chapman@csiro.au)
"Genetic and Physiological Simulation of Crossing and Selection Strategies to Combine Diagnostic Markers and Quantitative Traits"

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