Speakers:

10:20 a.m.
Dr. William L. Rooney, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA (wlr@tamu.edu)
"Development Of Sorghum As A Dedicated Bioenergy Crop"

10:40 a.m.
Dr. James C. Nelson, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, USA (jcn@ksu.edu)
"SNP Identification In Sorghum By Short-Read Sequencing"

11:00 a.m.
Dr. Xianmin Diao, Millet Improvement Center of China and Institute of Millet Crops, Hebei Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences, China (xmdiao@yahoo.com.cn)
"Establishment Of A Platform For Functional Genomic Study Of Foxtail Millet, Setaria Italica"

11:20 a.m.
Dr. Yves Vigouroux, IRD-INRA-SUPAGRO-UMII, Universit¨¦ de Montpellier II, France (yves.vigouroux@mpl.ird.fr)
"Association Studies To Identify Natural Variation At Phyc Linked To Flowering Time And Morphological Variation In Pearl Millet"

11:40 a.m.
Dr. Scott Sattler, USDA-ARS, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA (Scott.Sattler@ars.usda.gov)
"The Sorghum Brown Midrib Mutants, Tools To Improve Biomass For Feed And Biofuels"

12:00 p.m.
Dr. Andrzej Kilian, Diversity Arrays Technology Pty Ltd., Australia (a.kilian@diversityarrays.com)
"DArT Genome Profiling And Dedicated Information Technologies For Modern Breeding Of Sorghum And Pearl Millet"

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