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Pod rupture during seed development

Growth of compatible pollen tubes through stigma and style

Invasive wild oats and Localization of the defence-related triterpenes in oat roots

Invasive wild oats and Localization of the defence-related triterpenes in oat roots

Transcriptomic analysis of senescence-associated genes in barley

Simulating the effects of localized red:far-red ratio on tillering in spring wheat

Phenotypic and transcriptomic analysis of lignification in Aradopsis

Phenotypic and transcriptomic analysis of lignification in Aradopsis

Increased and acquired resistance to TMV in tobacco

Increased and acquired resistance to TMV in tobacco

 

 

 

 

 

Program

Wednesday 17 September

 

Welcome

   

4:00 pm

Registration opens

   
6:00 pm Welcome Reception

 

 

8:00 pm Guest lecture: A botanist's guide to the natural history of the Pacific Northwest
  David Dalton (Reed College, Portland, Oregon)

Thursday 18 September

8:00 am

Symposium goals and overview

Steve Strauss (Oregon State University, OR, USA)

 

Session 1: The landscape

Moderator D. Flavell

 

 

08:30 am

Harnessing the new sciences in support of agriculture in the
developing world

 

Deborah Delmer (Rockefeller Foundation, retired, NY, USA)

   
9:00 am How biotechnology can enable agriculture to mitigate climate change
  Steven D. Savage and John Vendeland (Cirrus Partners, CA, USA)
   

9:30 am

Breeding genomics

 

Susan McCouch (Cornell University, NY, USA)

 

 

10:00 am Roots and drought and breeding better crops
Adam Price (University of Aberdeen, UK)
   
BREAK  
   

11:00 am

The use of genetic principles for crop improvement

 

Scott Tingey (Dupont Corporation, DE, USA)

 

 

11:30 am

Integrating breeding & biotechnologies

 

Tom Adams (Monsanto, MO, USA)

 

 

12:00 pm

The iPlant collaborative

 

Steve Goff (University of Arizona, AZ, USA)

 

 

Lunch  

 

Session 2: Science inroads

Moderator R. Amasino

   
1:30 pm Next generation genomic technologies for gene mining and
functional genomics: Issues of scope, scale and service
  Jeff Bennetzen (University of Georgia, GA, USA)
   
2:00 pm Creating tools for the control of transgene integration and for
genome editing in plant species
  Tzvi Tzfira (University of Michigan, MI, USA)
   
2:30 pm New transcription factor based technology & tools for future
crop improvement
  Oliver Ratcliffe & Neal Gutterson (Mendel Biotechnologies, CA, USA)
   
BREAK  
   
3:30 pm Small RNAs
  Rob Martienssen (Cold Spring Harbour Laboratory, NY, USA)
   
4:00 pm The pleiotropic hypothesis of heterosis
  Luca Comai (University of California-Davis, CA, USA)
   
4:30 pm The importance of statistics in the era of 'omics
  Rebecca Doerge (Purdue University, IN, USA)
   
5:00 pm

200 million years of angiosperm genome evolution

  Daniel Rokhsar (US Dept. of Energy, USA)
   
6:00 pm Poster session / reception
   
7:00 pm Dinner

 

Evening lecture

Moderator H. Klee

   
8:30 pm Gates Foundation approaches
  Robert Horsch (Gates Foundation, Washington, WA, USA)
   

Friday 19 September

Session 3: Traits and physiology
Moderator R. Jorgensen

 

 

8:30 am

Understanding and modifying flowering

 

Richard Amasino (University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI, USA)

 

 

9:00 am

Fruits

 

Harry Klee (University of Florida, FL, USA)

 

 

9:30 am

Toward a systems level understanding of abiotic stress
tolerance for applications in agriculture

 

Michael Thomashow (Michigan State University,MI, USA)

   
10:00 am The challenges of phenotyping technologies for plant
biotechnology

Pierre Lejeune (CropDesign NV, Ghent, Belgium)
   
BREAK  
   

11:00 am

Role of pathogen effector proteins in plant innate immunity

 

Brian Staskawicz (University of California-Berkeley, CA, USA)

   

11:30 am

Evolution of adaptive traits

 

John Willis (Duke University, NC, USA)

   

12:00 am

Breeding realities

 

Erik Legg (Syngenta Biotechnology Inc., NC, USA)

 

 

LUNCH

 

 

Session 4: Putting it together

Moderator S. Strauss

 

 

1:30 pm

Genetic engineering novel crop plants: unlimited horizons

 

Robert Goldberg (University of California-Los Angeles, CA, USA)

    

2:00 pm

Development of energy crops

 

Chris Somerville (Carnergie Institute of Plant Research, CA, USA)

   

2:30 pm

Human and institutional drivers for realizing crop
improvement

 

Richard Flavell (Ceres Inc., CA, USA)

   
BREAK  

 

 

3:30 pm

Panel discussion: Conference themes and messages

 

Amasino, Klee, Jorgensen, Flavell, Freedman, Strauss

   

6:00 pm

Reception

 

 

7:00 pm Dinner

Saturday 20 September

 

Depart

 


 

  Physiological sculpture of plants logo by Gretchen Bracher. Illustrations: Pod rupture during seed development from, Chiurugwi et al. Growth of compatible pollen tubes through stigma and style, from Kemp & Doughty. Invasive wild oats and Localization of the defence-related triterpenes in oat roots from Field et al. Transcriptomic analysis of senescence-associated genes in barley, from Parrott et al. Simulating the effects of localized red:far-red ratio on tillering in spring wheat, from Evers at al. Phenotypic and transcriptomic analysis of lignification in Aradopsis, from Rogers et al. Increased and acquired resistance to TMV in tobacco, from Develey-Rivière & Galiana. Physiological sculpture of plants: new visions and capabilities for crop breeding is sponsored by the New Phytologist Trust