About the workshop:

In recent years, a truly impressive number of advances in genetics and genomics have greatly enhanced our understanding of structural and functional aspects of plant genomes. The complete genome sequences of Arabidopsis and rice as well as an enormous number of plant ESTs have become available. In the next several years, the entire genomes or at least gene space will likely be sequenced for most major crops especially due to advances in next generation sequencing technologies. Several novel genetic and genomics tools/approaches such as association genetics, advanced back-cross QTL analysis, TILLING, EcoTILLING, allele mining, comparative and functional genomics, transcriptomics, genetical genomics, metabolomics, proteomics etc. offer the possibilities to examine and utilize the structural as well as functional genetic variation in crop breeding. Holistic approach of enhancing the prediction of the phenotype from a genotype using genomics tools/approaches has been termed as 'genomics assisted breeding' (GAB) (Varshney et al. 2005, Trends Plant Sci 10: 621 630). In fact, genomics assisted breeding has already shown its potential for crop improvement in several cereal species (Varshney et al. 2006, Trends Biotech 24:490-499).

A critical assessment of the status and availability of genomic resources and genomics research in crop plant species and devising the strategies and approaches for effectively exploiting genomics research for crop improvement is the main objective of this workshop. Genomics specialists having extensive experience in applying genomics in breeding from both public and private sectors share their experience and propose novel ideas in this workshop to use GAB in an efficient manner.

Speakers:

10:20 am - 10 :25 am
Rajeev Varshney
(r.k.varshney@cgiar.org)
ICRISAT, Patancheru, India
Introduction

10:25 am - 10:45 am
Andreas Graner
(graner@ipk-gatersleben.de)
IPK, Gatersleben, Germany
LD Mapping in Barley: Insights into the Genetic Architecture of Agronomic Traits

10:45 am - 11:05 am
Mark Sorrells
(mes12@cornell.edu)
Cornell University, USA
Association Breeding Strategies for Improvement of Self-Pollinated Crops

11:05 am - 11:25 am
Jean-Christophe Glaszmann
(glaszmann@cirad.fr)
CIRAD, Montpellier, France
LD Mapping and Tagging in Sugarcane

11:25 am - 11:45 am
John Arbuckle
(john.arbuckle@syngenta.com)
Syngenta Seeds Inc., USA
Discovery and Application of Genome Information in Maize Breeding

11:45 am - 12:05 pm
Scott Jackson
(sjackson@purdue.edu)
Genomics in common bean: leveraging the soybean genome for bean improvement

12:05 pm - 12:25 pm
Yaniv Semel
(ys1276@gmail.com)
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Phenom Networks - a system for complex phenotype analysis in breeding

12:25 pm - 12:30 pm
Rajeev Varshney
(r.k.varshney@cgiar.org)
ICRISAT, Patancheru, India
Wrap-up

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