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Speakers:

8:05 AM
Carolyn Young, The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, USA (cayoung@noble.org)
"A Genomic Survey of Transporters and Their Expression in a Grass-Endophyte Symbiosis Reveals Putative Key Genes in the Nutritional Cross Talk"

8:25 AM
Samuel Yang, USDA, USA (sam.yang@ARS.USDA.GOV)
"Alfalfa Biomass Germplasms: SFP Detection and Transcriptome Analysis"

8:45 AM
Hikmet Budak, Sabanci University, Turkey (budak@sabanciuniv.edu)
"Comparative Microarray-based Transcriptome Analysis in Four Festuca Species Following Glyphosate Treatment"

9:05 AM
Viviana Echenique, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina (echeniq@criba.edu.ar)
"Biotechnological and Genomic Tools for the Improvement of Weeping Lovegrass (Eragrostis curvula)"

9:25 AM
Changsoo Kim, University of Georgia, USA (chngkim@uga.edu)
"Duplication and Divergence of Grass Genomes: Integrating the Chloridoids"

9:45 AM
German Spangenberg, Department of Primary Industries, Australia (german.spangenberg@dpi.vic.gov.au)
"Yield Enhancement Technologies for Biofeedstocks"

10:25 AM
Kerrie Farrar, IBERS, Aberystwyth University, UK (kkf@aber.ac.uk)
"Identification of SNP Markers for Molecular Breeding in Lolium perenne and other Energy Grasses"

10:45 AM
John W. Forster, Department of Primary Industries, Victorian AgriBiosciences Centre, Australia (john.forster@dpi.vic.gov.au)
"Gene-Associated SNP Marker Development and Implementation for Temperate Pasture Grass Improvement"

11:05 AM
Zac Hanley, ViaLactia Biosciences, Auckland, New Zealand (zac.hanley@vialactia.com)
"Capturing Untapped Genetic Potential in Ryegrass: Strategies, Progress and Needs"

11:25 AM
Keenan L. Amundsen, USDA ARS, Beltsville, MD, USA (keenan.amundsen@ars.usda.gov)
"Application of Miniature Inverted Repeat Transposable Element Anchored Markers in Agrostis"

11:45 AM
Carolyn Young, The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Ardmore, OK, USA (cayoung@noble.org)
"Lolitrem B Biosynthetic Capability of Epichloeuml Endophytes as Predicted by Ltm Gene Marker Analysis"

12:05 PM
Emidio Albertini, University of Perugia, Italy (emidio.albertini@unipg.it)
"Looking For Genes and Markers Linked to Apomixis in Poa Pratensis L."

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