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)