International PAG - Cucurbit Workshop


Sunday, 11 January 2009 --- 3:50 pm - 6:00 pm

Cucurbit Workshop - San Diego Room

Organizers:

Tarek Joobeur, Ohio State University

(joobeur.1@osu.edu)

and

Nurit Katzir, Agricultural Research Organization (ARO), Israel

(katzirn@volcani.agri.gov.il)

and

Ralph A. Dean, North Carolina state University

(dean2@ncsu.edu)

Speakers: TBA

1. 3:55
James Giovannoni , Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Tower Road, Cornell University campus, Ithaca NY14853 (jjg33@cornell.edu)
"Development Of Melon ESTs And Transcrptome Analysis Of Fruit Ripening"

2. 4:15PM
Efraim Lewinsohn, Department of Vegetable Crops, Newe Ya'ar Research Center, A.R.O. P.O. Box 1021, Ramat Yishay, 30095, ISRAEL (twefraim@agri.gov.il)
"Functional Genomics To Identify Genes Affecting Melon Aromas"

3. 3:35 PM
Jordi Garcia-Mas, IRTA, Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG) CSIC-IRTA-UAB, Departament de Genčtica Vegetal, Cabrils, Spain (Jordi.Garcia@irta.cat)
"Towards the whole sequence of the melon genome"

4. 4:55 PM
Sanwen Huang, Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, No. 12, Zhong Guan Cun Nan Da Jie, Beijing, 100081, China (huangsanwen@mac.com)
"Recent Developments Of The Cucumber Genome Initiative-An International Effort To Unlock The Genetic Potential Of An Orphan Crop Using Novel Genomic Technology"

5. 5:15 PM
Kai-Shu Ling, USDA, ARS, U.S. Vegetable Laboratory, 2700 Savannah Highway, Charleston, SC 29414 (Kai.Ling@ARS.USDA.GOV)
"An Allele-Specific SNP Mutation in the eIF4E Gene Is Associated with the Zucchini Yellow Mosaic Virus Resistance in Watermelon"

6. 5:35 PM
Katsunori Tanaka, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, 457-4 Motoyama, Kamigamo, Kita-ku, Kyoto, 603-8047 JAPAN (k-tanasan@chikyu.ac.jp)
"SNP markers of chloroplast genome in Cucumis species and its application to diversity and phylogenetic analysis"

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