4264
Perennial Grasses

Date: Tuesday, January 17, 2017
Time: 4:00 PM-6:10 PM
Room: Pacific Salon 2
Organizers:
Malay C. Saha and Christian Tobias
4:00 PM
QTL x Environment Interactions and Latitudinal Adaptation in Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum)
Thomas Juenger, University of Texas, Austin; David Lowry, Michigan State University; Jeremy Schmutz, Hudson Alpha; Jason Bonnette, University of Texas at Austin; John T. Lovell, University of Texas, Austin; Li Zhang, University of Texas at Austin; Felix B. Fritschi, Division of Plant Sciences, University of Missouri; John Reilley, USDA NRCS; Phillip Fay, USDA ARS; Monte Rouquette, Texas A&M; Rob Mitchell, USDA-ARS; Yanqi Wu, Oklahoma State University; Arvid Boe, South Dakota State University

4:20 PM
Proteomics Study of Switchgrass for Drought Stress
Zhujia Ye, Tenneesse State University; Suping Zhou, Tennessee State University; Theodore W Thannhauser, Functional & Comparative Proteomics Center, USDA-ARS, Cornell University

4:40 PM
The Intermediate Wheatgrass Genome: A Resource for Understanding Mechanisms of Perenniality and Accelerating the Development of Perennial Crops
Kevin M. Dorn, Kansas State University; Christopher Plott, HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology; Jerry Jenkins, HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology; Jane Grimwood, HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology; Jeremy Schmutz, HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology; Steve Larson, USDA-ARS Forage and Range Research; Lee DeHaan, The Land Institute; Jesse Poland, Kansas State University

5:20 PM
Identification of GBS-Generated Bi-Allelic SNPs Associated with Leaf Scald Resistance in Sugarcane
Andres Gutierrez, School of Plant, Enviormental, and Soil Sciences, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center; Jeff Hoy, Deapartment of Plant Pathology and Crop Physiology, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center; Collins Kimbeng, Sugar Research Station, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center; Michael Pontif, Sugar Research Station, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center; Niranjan Baisakh, School of Plant, Environmental, and Soil Sciences, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center

5:40 PM
Late Flowering in Auto-Tetraploid Dactylis glomerata
Bradley S. Bushman, USDA-ARS Forage & Range Research

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