International PAG - Challenge Program: Unlocking Crop Genetic Diversity for the Poor Workshop

Monday, 16 January 2006 --- 12:50 pm - 3:00 pm

Challenge Program: Applying Plant Diversity and Genomics for the Resource Poor Workshop

--- Royal Palm Salon 4, 5, and 6

Organizer: Hei Leung, International Rice Research Institute

(h.leung@cgiar.org)

Speakers:

1. 20 min
Josette Masle
(Josette.masle@anu.edu.au)
Australian National University, Australia
Plant transpiration efficiency and drought tolerance

2. 20 min
Mathias Lorieux
(m.lorieux@cgiar.org)
CIAT/IRD, Colombia
Pre- Chromosome Segment Substitution Lines (CSSL): Analysis of two Asian X African rice introgression lines populations

3. 20 min
David Bertioli
(david@cenargen.embrapa.br)
Universidade Catolica de Brasilia, Brazil
Unlocking genetic diversity in peanuts wild relatives

4. 20 min
Abdelbagi Ismail
(a.ismail@cgiar.org)
IRRI, Philippines
Salinity tolerance in rice: integration of QTL, expression analysis, and breeding

5. 20 min
Mark Sawkins
(m.sawkins@cgiar.org)
CIMMYT, Mexico
Can association analyses be effectively used to improve the tolerance of tropical maize to drought?

6. 20 min
Dominique This
(thisd@ensam.inra.fr)
INRA, France
Toward a dataset on allele diversity at orthologous candidate genes in GCP crops

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