Speakers:

10:30-10:50
Harrie van Erp, Institute of Biological Chemistry, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, US (vanerph@wsu.edu )
"Massively Parallel Pyrosequencing Reveals Candidate Genes For Hydroxy Fatty Acid Biosynthesis In Castor"

10:50-11:10
Henry Daniell, Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, College of Medicine, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816-2364, U.S.A. (daniell@mail.ucf.edu )
"The Complete Nucleotide Sequence of the Cassava (Manihot Esculenta) Chloroplast Genome, Loss of ATPF Intron and Biotechnology Applications"

11:10-11:30
Fausto Rodríguez-Zapata, International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), Agrobiodiversity and Biotechnology Project, A.A.6713, Cali, 7601000, Colombia (f.v.rodriguez@cgiar.org)
"Mining a Cassava Full-Length cDNA Library: Transcriptome Assembly, Annotation and Network Analysis for Gene Discovery and Casssava Improvement"

11:30-11:50
Norma Houston, University of Missouri, Department of Biochemistry, Interdisciplinary Plant Group, Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center, 1201 Rollins St. Coumbia, MO, 65211, USA (houstonn@missouri.edu)
"Quantitative Proteomic Analysis of Seed Filling in Castor"

11:50-12:10
Ivan Ingelbrecht, Central Biotechnology Laboratory, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Ibadan, Nigeria (i.ingelbrecht@cgiar.org)
"New Tools for Genetic Mapping, Fingerprinting, And Gene Discovery In Cassava; Progress On Marker Development and a Cassava-Specific Oligo DNA Microarray"

12:10-12:30
Ming-Cheng Luo, Department of Plant Sciences, Mail Stop 1, University of California, One Shields Ave., Davis, CA 95616-8780 (mcluo@ucdavis.edu )
"A BAC-Based Fingerprint Map of the Cassava Genome"

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