GGG
292 – Seminar in Plant Breeding and Biodiversity
Mondays 4:10 PM PES 2005
Sept
.28: Organizational Meeting (in Robbins
262B)
Oct.
5 - Jacqueline
Heard -
Monsanto Co. - "Improving
maize productivity in water-limiting environments."
• Castiglioni et al. 2008
• Nelson et al. 2007
Oct.
12 - Norman Ellstrand -
Center for Conservation Biology and Dept. of Botany and
Plant Sciences - UC Riverside - "Feral crops for
the study of the evolution of invasiveness"
• Schierenbeck and Ellstrand
2009
• Blossey and Nötzold
1995
Oct.
19 - Paul Gepts -
Dept. of Plant Sciences - UC Davis - "Multiple
domestications in Phaseolus."
• Angioi et al. 2009
• Kwak and Gepts 2009
Oct.
26 - John Bowers - Plant
Genome Mapping Laboratory - U Georgia - "Macro
assembly of the Sorghum bicolor genome
from a whole genome shotgun sequence, and insights
from the sorghum genome"
• Paterson et al. 2004
• Paterson et al. 2009
Nov.
2 - Scott
Sebastian -
Pioneer Hi-Bred Inc. -
"Accelerated Yield Technology:
Context-Specific MAS for Yield QTL"
• Feng et al 2006
• Sebastian et al 1995
Nov.
9 - Tao Sang -
Dept. Plant Biology - Michigan State - "What I have
learned from studying rice domestication"
• Sang and Ge 2007
• Zhang et al 2009
Nov.
16 - Peter Morrell -
Dept. of Agronomy and Plant Genetics - U Minnesota
- "Population structure in wild barley:
implications for barley domestication"
• Morrell and Clegg 2007
• Chen et al 2009
Nov.
23: Roger Chetelat -
Dept. Plant Sciences, UC Davis - "Genetic diversity in
wild tomatoes: how genome evolution and reproductive
barriers limit its utilization.”
• Albrecht and Chetelat
2009
• Canady et al 2006
Nov.
30: Grant Review Panel (in Robbins 262B)