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Symposium--Building a Strong Financial Base for Sustaining a Healthy Plant Breeding Community

Thursday, November 5, 2009: 7:55 AM-10:50 AM
Convention Center, Room 408-409, Fourth Floor
Presiding:
Andrew A. Hopkins
Organizer:
Brett F. Carver
7:55 AM
Introductory Remarks
8:00 AM
Why the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Supports Crop Improvement Networks in Africa and South Asia?.
David Bergvinson, Gates Foundation
8:20 AM
The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation: Advancing Plant Breeding and Plant Science Research through a Private Funding Model.
Steve Rhines, Noble Foundation, Inc.
8:40 AM
NCGA's Perspective On the National Plant Genome Initiative and the Future of Plant Research.
Robyn Stevens, Natl. Corn Growers Assoc.
9:00 AM
Monsanto as a Partner in Plant Science and Education.
Donn P. Cummings, Monsanto Company
9:20 AM
Discussion
9:30 AM
Break
9:40 AM
An Overview of the Rutgers Turfgrass Breeding Program - 50 Years and Counting.
Stacy A. Bonos, Rutgers State Univ.; William Meyer, Rutgers State Univ.
10:00 AM
Yield, Composition, and the Soybean Checkoff.
Ed Ready, United Soybean Board
10:20 AM
Commercializing Public Wheat Varieties in Kansas.
Daryl Strouts, Kansas Wheat Alliance
10:40 AM
Wrap-up discussion
10:50 AM
Adjourn
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