Session: Symposium--Challenges to Transforming Forage Germplasm into Bioenergy Crops

Tuesday, 7 October 2008: 7:55 AM

George R. Brown Convention Center, 381A

Presiding:

Ken Vogel

7:55 AM

8:00 AM

Perennial Grasses for Bioenergy: Not Only Switchgrass!.
Michael Casler, USDA-ARS; Kenneth Vogel, USDA-ARS; Arvid Boe, South Dakota State University; William F. Anderson, USDA/ARS CBGRU; Steve Larson, USDA-ARS Forage and Range Research Laboratory; John Clifton-Brown, IGER

8:30 AM

653-2

Sorghum for Bioenergy.
Jeffrey Pedersen, USDA-ARS; William L. Rooney, Texas A&M University; Scott Sattler, USDA-ARS

9:00 AM

653-3

Outlook and Challenges of Breeding Corn for Lignocellulosic Biofeedstock Production.
Natalia De Leon, University of Wisconsin-Madison; James Coors, University of Wisconsin-Madison

9:30 AM

Break

9:45 AM

653-4

Improving Sugarcane as a Bioenergy Crop in the U.S.
Thomas Tew, USDA-ARS; Anna Hale, USDA-ARS; Sarah Lingle, USDA-ARS; Robert Cobill, USDA-ARS

10:15 AM

653-5

Alfalfa: Bioenergy and More.
JoAnn Lamb, USDA-ARS; Hans-Joachim Jung, USDA-ARS; Michael Russelle, USDA-ARS

10:45 AM

653-6

Bioenergy from Forage Crops--The European Perspective.
Antje Herrmann, Christian-Albrechts Univ.

11:15 AM

Panel Discussion

11:40 AM

Adjourn

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653 Symposium--Challenges to Transforming Forage Germplasm into Bioenergy Crops
(C06 Forage and Grazinglands; A10 Bioenergy and Agroindustrial Systems (Provisional), C08 Plant Genetic Resources )