Monday, November 13, 2006: 7:55 AM
Indiana Conv. Center, Sagamore 7, Second Floor
76: Symposium--Closing the Circle on Plant Genetic Resources Conservation and Utilization: I
Sponsor:C08 Plant Genetic Resources
Cosponsors:C01 Crop Breeding & Genetics; C07 Genomics, Molecular Genetics & Biotechnology
Presiding:Clarice Coyne, USDA-ARS
7:55 AM Introductory Remarks
8:00 AM76-1Genetic Characterization of Plant Genetic Resources. 
Peter Bretting, USDA-ARS, National Program Staff
8:30 AM76-2Genetic Bottlenecks and Soybean Genetic Variability and Vulnerability. 
Perry Cregan, Soybean Genomics and Improvement Laboratory, David Hyten, Soybean Genomics and Improvement Laboratory, Qijian Song, Soybean Genomics and Improvement Laboratory, Youlin Zhu, Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Ik-Young Choi, Soybean Genomics and Improvement Laboratory, Randall L. Nelson, USDA-ARS/Univ. of Illinois, Jose Costa, Plant Sciences, Randy Shoemaker, USDA, ARS, James Specht, Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
9:00 AM76-3Large Scale Genotyping and Association Studies.
Ed Buckler, USDA-ARS
9:30 AM76-4Tapping Crop Diversity and Genomics to Tackle Problems Faced by Farmers in the Semi-Arid Tropics. 
David Hoisington, Intl. Crops Res. Inst., N. Mallikarjuna, ICRISAT, H. D. Upadhyaya, ICRISAT, P. M. Gaur, ICRISAT, S. Nigam, ICRISAT, K. B. Saxena, ICRISAT, C. T. Hash, ICRISAT, F. Waliyar, ICRISAT, P. L. Kumar, ICRISAT, V. Vadez, ICRISAT, R. Varshney, ICRISAT
10:00 AM Break
10:30 AM76-5Determination of Population Structure of the CIMMYT Maize Collection. 
Marilyn Warburton, CIMMYT, Susanne Dreisigacker, CIMMYT, Jose Crossa, CIMMYT, Jorge Franco, CIMMYT, Suketoshi Taba, CIMMYT
11:00 AM76-6Association Mapping: Statistical Considerations. 
Bruce Weir, University of Washington
11:30 AM76-7Sampling Strategies for Forming Core Subsets. 
Jose Crossa, CIMMYT, Jorge Franco, Universidad de la Republica del Uruguay, Suketoshi Taba, CIMMYT, Marilyn Warburton, CIMMYT, Chris Thachuk, Simon Fraser University, Guy Davenport, CIMMYT
12:00 PM76-8Gene Pools, Domestication, Races, and Linkage Disequilibrium in Common Bean. 
Myounghai Kwak, Univ. of California, Dept. of Plant Sciences, Section of Crop & Ecosystem Sciences, Paul Gepts, University of California-Davis
12:30 PM Adjourn
Cosponsors:C01 Crop Breeding & Genetics; C07 Genomics, Molecular Genetics & Biotechnology

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