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
8:40 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