Date: Tuesday, January 13, 2015
Time: 4:00 PM-6:10 PM
Room: Pacific Salon 2
Organizers:
Malay C. Saha
and
Shing Kwok
4:20 PM
Genomics and Breeding of Miscanthus
Erik J. Sacks, Dept of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois;
Lindsay V. Clark, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA;
Joe E. Brummer, Colorado State University;
Katarzyna Glowaca, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign;
Megan Hall, Bio Architecture Lab;
Kweon Heo, Kangwon National University;
Siyao Liu, University of Illinois;
Junhua Peng, Life Sci & Tech Center of China Seed;
Shailendra Sharma, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA;
Shiveta Sharma, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA;
Toshihiko Yamada, Hokkaido University;
Ji Hye Yoo, Kangwon National University;
Chang Yeon Yu, Kangwon National University;
Hua Zhao, Huazhong Agricultural University;
Stephen Long, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
4:40 PM
An Association Mapping Approach on Cell Wall Digestibility and Plant Architecture Gives Insight in Yield, Persistency and Forage Quality in Perennial Ryegrasses
Hilde Muylle, ILVO-Plant Sciences Unit-Growth and Development;
Tom Ruttink, ILVO-Plant Sciences Unit-Growth and Development;
Frederik van Parijs, ILVO-Plant Sciences Unit-Growth and Development;
Sabine Van Glabeke, ILVO-Plant Sciences Unit-Growth and Development;
Elisabeth Veeckman, ILVO-Plant Sciences Unit-Growth and Development;
Annelies Haegeman, ILVO-Plant Sciences Unit-Growth and Development;
Stephen Byrne, Aarhus University;
Torben Asp, Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University;
Isabel Roldan-Ruiz, ILVO-Plant Sciences Unit-Growth and Development
5:20 PM
Expanding the Breeder's Toolbox: Use of the Model Perennial Grass Brachypodium sylvaticum to Study Abiotic Stress and to Develop Biotechnological Tools for Switchgrass Improvement
Ray Collier, USDA-ARS;
Maureen Daley, Dept. of Plant Sciences, University of California;
Sean Gordon, DOE Joint Genome Institute;
Richard Bryan Hernandez, Dept. of Plant Sciences, University of California;
María Reguera, Dept. of Plant Sciences, University of California;
Nir Sade, Dept. of Plant Sciences, University of California;
Matthew Wright, Dept. of Plant Sciences, University of California;
Sangwoong Yoon, USDA-ARS;
Eduardo Blumwald, Dept. of Plant Sciences, University of California;
Christian Tobias, USDA-ARS;
John P. Vogel, DOE Joint Genome Institute;
Roger Thilmony, USDA-ARS
5:40 PM
Detecting Genetic Associations with Phenology in Switchgrass Using Exome-Capture
Paul Grabowski, USDA Dairy Forage Research Center;
Joseph Evans, Department of Plant Biology and DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Michigan State University;
Chris Daum, DOE Joint Genome Institute;
Govindarajan Kunde-Ramamoorthy, DOE Joint Genome Institute;
Shweta Deshpande, DOE Joint Genome Institute;
Kerrie W. Barry, DOE Joint Genome Institute;
Guillaume P. Ramstein, Department of Agronomy, University of Wisconsin - Madison;
Emily Crisovan, Department of Plant Biology and DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Michigan State University;
Brieanne Vaillancourt, Department of Plant Biology and DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Michigan State University;
Jerome Cherney, Cornell University;
Denise Costich, Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo (CIMMYT);
Edward S. Buckler, Institute for Genomic Diversity, Cornell University;
Shawn Kaeppler, Department of Agronomy and DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, University of Wisconsin - Madison;
C. Robin Buell, Department of Plant Biology and DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Michigan State University;
Yiwei Jiang, Department of Agronomy, Purdue University;
Michael Casler, USDA Dairy Forage Research Center
