Speakers:

8:00-8:30
Peter Bundock, Centre for Plant Conservation Genetics, Southern Cross University, Lismore, Australia (peter.bundock@scu.edu.au)
"Discovering Snps For Gene Mapping In Sugarcane Using Deep Sequencing"

8:30-9:00
Angelique DHONT, CIRAD, UMR DAP, Montpellier , France (dhont@cirad.fr)
"Characterization Of The Bru1 (Brown Rust Resistance) Locus; Distribution In Modern Sugarcane Cultivars"

9:00-9:30
Carlos Hotta, Departamento de Bioquímica, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo Brazil (carlos.hotta@cantab.net)
"Characterization Of Genes Associated With The Sugarcane Circadian Clock"

9:30-10:00
Katia Scortecci, Departamento de Biologia Celular e Genética, Centro de Biociências, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil ( kacscort@yahoo.com)
"A Molecular Tool For Identification Of Genes Associated To Flowering In Sugarcane"

10:00-10:30
COFFEE BREAK

10:30-11:00
Antonio Figueira, Centro de Energia Nuclear na Agriculura, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Piracicaba, SP, Brazil (figueira@cena.usp.br)
"Are Differences For Herbicide Resistance Between Sugarcane (Saccharum Spp.) Cultivars Associated With Glutathione Transferase Basal Gene Expression?"

11:00-11:30
Rosanne Casu, CSIRO Plant Industry, Queensland Bioscience Precinct, QLD, Australia ( Rosanne.Casu@csiro.au)
"Can Rnai-Mediated Gene Silencing Effectively Influence Core Metabolism In Sugarcane?"

11:30-12:00
Mike Butterfield, SASRI, South Africa Sugar Research Institute, Mt Edgecombe, South Africa (mike.butterfield@sugar.org.za)
"Molecular Breeding Of Sugarcane Using Linkage Disequilibrium Maps And Quantitative Trait Alleles"

1:30 pm to 3:40 pm
Sugarcane Genome Sequencing Initiative - Palm Salon 1 and 2

Organizer: Glaucia Souza, University of So Paulo

Working meeting open to the community

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