Forage, Feedstocks & Turf

Organizers:
Reed E. Barker(Grass Genomic Testing, Inc.) and German Spangenberg(Victorian AgriBiosciences Centre)
Date: Saturday, January 14, 2012
Time: 8:00 AM-10:10 AM
Room: Pacific Salon 1
8:00 AM
Duplication Allows Divergent Evolutionary Fates of Gene Function in Legumes
Peter M. Gresshoff, CILR - The University of Queensland; Dugald E Reid, CILR - The University of Queensland, Australia; Satomi Hayashi, CILR - The University of Queensland, Australia; Saeid Mirzaei, CILR - The University of Queensland, Australia; Brett J. Ferguson, CILR - The University of Queensland, Australia

8:20 AM
Grass Endophyte Discovery - From Global Diversity to Pangenome Analysis
Kathryn Guthridge, Department of Primary Industries; John Forster, La Trobe University; Tim Sawbridge, La Trobe University; German Spangenberg, La Trobe University

8:40 AM
Introduction of fructosyltransferase genes of the cool season grass, Lolium perenne into the warm season grass, Miscanthus sinensis, a potential bioenergy crop
Xun Wang, Field Science Center for Northern Biosphere, Hokkaido University; Xiaoyu Li, Field Science Center for Northern Biosphere, Hokkaido University; Midori Yoshida, National Agricultural Research Center for Hokkaido Region, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization; Akira Kanazawa, Research Faculty of Agriculture,Hokkaido University; Toshihiko Yamada, Field Science Center for Northern Biosphere - Hokkaido University

9:00 AM
The Development of a BAC-fingerprint FPC map for Lolium perenne
Suresh Swain, IBERS, Aberystwyth University; Ann Thomas, IBERS, Aberystwyth University; Dave Kudrna, Arizona Genomics Institute, University of Arizona; Lin Huang, IBERS, Aberystwyth University; Stephen Byrne, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University; Torben Asp, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University; Ian King, School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham; Julie King, School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham; Ian Armstead, IBERS, Aberystwyth University

9:20 AM
Characterization of Medicago truncatula Mutants and Application of the Knowledge for Alfalfa Improvement
Chuanen Zhou, Forage Improvement Division, The Noble Foundation ; Lu Han, Forage Improvement Division, The Noble Foundation ; Zeng-Yu Wang, Forage Improvement Division, The Noble Foundation

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