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Rajeev K. Varshney, ICRISAT, India

Speakers:

12:50 - 12:55
Rajeev Varshney, ICRISAT, Patancheru, India/GCP, C/o. CIMMYT, Mexico (r.k.varshney@cgiar.org)
"Welcome & Introduction"

12:55 - 13:15
Kenneth McNally, IRRI, Manila, Philippines (k.mcnally@cgiar.org)
"Genomewide SNP patterns in rice reveal historical and recent introgressions"

13:15 - 13:35
Steven Knapp, The University of Georgia, Georgia, USA (sjknapp@uga.edu)
"SNP discovery, validation, and mapping in groundnut"

13:35 - 13:55
Leon Kochian, USDA-ARS/Cornell University, Ithaca, USA (lvk1@cornell.edu)
"Elucidating the molecular and genetic basis for aluminum tolerance in sorghum, maize and rice"

13:55 - 14:15
Eduardo Blumwald, University of California, Davis, USA (eblumwald@ucdavis.edu)
"Delayed leaf senescence induces extreme drought tolerance in crop plants"

14:15 - 14:35
Jean-Francois Rami, CIRAD, Montpellier, France (rami@cirad.fr)
"A GCP challenge initiative: drought tolerance improvement for sorghum in Africa"

14:35 - 14:55
Marco Bink, Wageningen University & Research (WUR), Wageningen, The Netherlands (marco.bink@wur.nl)
"Statistical genetics within the GCP-molecular breeding flatform: creating a sustainable statistical support system for the future"

14:55 - 15:00
Rajeev Varshney, ICRISAT, Patancheru, India/GCP, C/o. CIMMYT, Mexico (r.k.varshney@cgiar.org)
"Summary & Wrap-up"

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