The Genetic Landscape of Wheat Rusts

The theme of this Workshop is molecular approaches to achieving plant disease resistance. The goal is to stimulate discussions on new and emerging approaches to solving wheat rust disease.
Date: Saturday, January 12, 2013
Time: 3:50 PM-6:00 PM
Room: Pacific Salon 1
Organizers:
Jan E Leach , Hei Leung and Sarah Nell Davidson
3:50 PM
Genome Variation Of Wheat Rust Fungi
Christina Cuomo, Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard

4:10 PM
4:50 PM
Resources For Genomes and Polymophism For Wheat Stem Rust In Ensembl Fungi
Paul J. Kersey, EMBL - The European Bioninformatics Institute; Uma Maheswari, EMBL-EBI

5:10 PM
Genomic Architecture Of Rust-Wheat Interaction: Implications For Breeding Disease-Resistant Crops
Eduard Akhunov, Kansas State University; Hanquan Liang, Kansas State University; Cyrille Saintenac, Kansas State University; Wenjun Zhang, University of California; Andres Salcedo, Kansas State University; Yanni Lun, Kansas State University; Steven S. Xu, USDA/ARS Cereal Crops Research Unit; Robert L. Bowden, USDA-ARS; Les J. Szabo, USDA-ARS, University of Minnesota; Dario Cantu, University of California Davis; Alina Akhunova, Kansas State University; Matthew Rouse, USDA-ARS, University of Minnesota; Jorge Dubcovsky, University of California Davis & HHMI

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