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
and
Rajeev K. Varshney, ICRISAT, India
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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