and

Rajeev K. Varshney, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), India

Speakers:

1. 12.50 pm- 1.10 pm
Matthew Blair , International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), Cali, Colombia (m.blair@cgiar.org)
"Relationships Among Ecotypes in Common Bean"

2. 1.10 pm- 1.30 pm
Andy Pereira, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia , USA (pereiraa@vbi.vt.edu)
"Improvement of Water Use Efficiency and Drought Resistance in Rice"

3. 1.30 pm- 1.50 pm
Leon Kochian, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA (lvk1@cornell.edu)
"Elucidating The Molecular Determinants Of Aluminum Tolerance in Sorghum, Maize And Rice"

4. 1.50 pm- 2.10 pm
Tim Close, University of California, Riverside, USA (timothy.close@ucr.edu)
"Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) Genomic Resources"

5. 2.10 pm- 2.30 pm
Alain Charcosset , INRA-CNRS-UPS-AgroParitech, UMR de Génétique Végétale, Gif sur Yvette, France (charcos@moulon.inra.fr)
"QTL Detection and Marker Assisted Selection In Mutilparental Designs: A Case Study in Temperate Maize"

6. 2.30 pm- 2.50 pm
Richard Bruskiewich, International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Las Banos, Philippines (r.bruskiewich@cgiar.org)
"Generation Challenge Programme Online Crop Bioinformatics Course "

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