Grasslands (Lolium Genome Initiative)

Date: Saturday, January 12, 2013
Time: 10:20 AM-12:30 PM
Room: Esquire
Organizers:
Iain Donnison and Reed E. Barker
10:40 AM
Genomic Selection in Forage Breeding: Designing an Estimation Population
Rosangela Resende, EMBRAPA; Michael Casler, USDA-ARS; Marcos D.V. Resende, Embrapa Forestry - Universidade Federal de Viçosa

11:00 AM
Concluding Remarks


11:20 AM
Genomic Selection in Red Clover: Issues and Solutions
Sachiko Isobe, Kazusa DNA Research Institute; Akihiro Nakaya, University of Niigata; Tilak Raj Sharma, CSK H.P. Agricultural University, Palampur-176 062 INDIA; J C Rana, National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources; Roland Kölliker, Agroscope Reckenholz-Tänikon Research Station ART; Beat Boller, Agroscope FAL Reckenholz; Irina Klimenko, All-Russian Williams Fodder Crop Res Ins

11:40 AM
Genomic Selection In Perennial Ryegrass
Leif Skot, IBERS, Aberystwyth University

12:00 PM
Welcoming Remarks


12:20 PM
An RNA-Seq Approach To Study Vernalization and The Induction Of Flowering In Perennial Ryegrass
Cristiana Paina, Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University; Stephen Byrne, Aarhus University; Torben Asp, Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University

12:40 PM
Virulence Factors and Genome Sequencing of the Bacterial Wilt Causing Pathogen X. translucens pv. graminis
Roland Kölliker, Agroscope Reckenholz-Tänikon Research Station ART; Lena Hersemann, Agroscope Reckenholz-Tänikon Research Station ART; Fabienne Wichmann, Yale University; Frank-Jörg Vorhölter, CeBiTec, University of Bielefeld; Franco Widmer, Agroscope Reckenholz-Tänikon Research Station ART

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