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Cucurbit Genomics

Recent findings and advances in Cucurbit crops utilizing genomic and genetic methodologies.
Date: Sunday, January 15, 2017
Time: 4:00 PM-6:10 PM
Room: Pacific Salon 4-5 (2nd Floor)
Organizers:
Amnon Levi and Yaakov (Kobi) Tadmor
Co-Chair:
Patrick Wechter
4:20 PM
Genome Variation Elucidates Evolution and Domestication of Fruit Ripening and Quality Traits in Watermelon
Shaogui Guo, National Engineering Research Center for Vegetables, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences; Honghe Sun, National Engineering Research Center for Vegetables, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences; Yi Ren, National Engineering Research Center for Vegetables, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences; Jie Zhang, National Engineering Research Center for Vegetables, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences; Shouwei Tian, National Engineering Research Center for Vegetables, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences; Guoyi Gong, National Engineering Research Center for Vegetables, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences; Haiying Zhang, National Engineering Research Center for Vegetables, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences; Zhangjun Fei, Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Cornell University; Yong Xu, National Engineering Research Center for Vegetables, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences

4:40 PM
A Tonoplast Sugar Transporter Mediates Sugar Accumulation in Dessert Watermelon (Citrullus lanatus) Fruit
Yi Ren, National Engineering Research Center for Vegetables, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences; Jie Zhang, National Engineering Research Center for Vegetables, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences; Shaogui Guo, National Engineering Research Center for Vegetables, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences; Hongju He, National Engineering Research Center for Vegetables, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences; Honghe Sun, National Engineering Research Center for Vegetables, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences; Shouwei Tian, National Engineering Research Center for Vegetables, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences; Guoyi Gong, National Engineering Research Center for Vegetables, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences; Haiying Zhang, National Engineering Research Center for Vegetables, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences; Yong Xu, National Engineering Research Center for Vegetables, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences

5:00 PM
Quantitative Trait Loci Mapping of Resistance to Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. niveum race 2 in Citrullus lanatus var. Citroides using Genotyping-by-Sequencing (GBS)
Sandra E. Branham, USDA-ARS; Amnon Levi, USDA-ARS, U.S. Vegtable Laboratory; Mark W. Farnham, USDA-ARS Vegetable Laboratory; Patrick Wechter, USDA-ARS

5:20 PM
Development of "Melonet-DB" Gene Expression Database for Functional Genomics Research of Muskmelon
Ryoichi Yano, Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba; Satoko Nonaka, Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba; Hiroshi Ezura, University of Tsukuba

5:40 PM
Cucumber Hypocotyl Elongation Mutants Reveal New Players in Plant UVB Signaling
Kailiang Bo, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Hui Wang, Northwest A&F University; Yupeng Pan, University of Wisconsin; Tusar K. Behera, Indian Agricultural Research Institute; Sudhakar Pandey, ICAR- Indian Institute of Vegetable Research; Changlong Wen, Beijing Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences; Yuhui Wang, University of Wisconsin; Phil Simon, USDA ARS and University of Wisconsin - Madison; Yuhong Li, Northwest A&F University; Jinfeng Chen, Nanjing Agricultural University; Yiqun Weng, USDA ARS/ Universtiy of Wisconsin

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