Sugar Cane (ICSB)

Organizers:
Paul H. Moore(Hawaii Agriculture Research Center) and Erik Mirkov(Texas A&M University)
Date: Sunday, January 15, 2012
Time: 8:00 AM-12:30 PM
Room: Royal Palm Salon 1-2
8:00 AM
EXPRESSION PROFILING OF SUGARCANE GENOTYPES CONTRASTING FOR DROUGHT TOLERANCE
Antonio Figueira, Universidade de Sao Paulo; Joao Felipe Nebó, Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois; Silvana Aparecida Creste Dias de Souza, Centro de Cana - Instituto Agronômico; Daniel Nunes, Centro de Cana, Instituto Agronômico de Campinas; Paulo Marchiori, Centro de Ecofisiologia e Biofísica, Instituto Agronômico de Campinas; Ricardo S. Machado, Centro de Ecofisiologia e Biofísica, Instituto Agronômico de Campinas; Rafael V. Ribeiro, Centro de Ecofisiologia e Biofísica, Instituto Agronômico de Campinas; Mariana Belloti, Centro de Energia Nuclear na Agricultura, Universidade de São Paulo; Aline Harissis, Centro de Energia Nuclear na Agricultura, Universidade de São Paulo; Joni Lima, Centro de Energia Nuclear na Agricultura, Universidade de São Paulo; Ray Ming, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Glaucia Souza, Institute of Chemistry - University of São Paulo; Marcos G. A. Landell, Centro de Cana, Instituto Agronômico de Campinas; Patricia Rezende, Jalles Machado Mill; Rogério A. B. Soares, Jalles Machado Mill

8:30 AM
Mining genes for cold tolerance in sugarcane toward development of functional markers
Lina Bernaola, School of Plant, Environmental, and Soil Sciences, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center; Arnold Parco, School of Plant, Environmental, and Soil Sciences, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center; Anna Hale, Sugarcane Research Unit, USDA-ARS; Renesh Bedre, School of Plant, Environmental, and Soil Sciences, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center; Collins Kimbeng, Sugar Research Station, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center; Kenneth Gravois, Sugar Research Station, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center; Niranjan Baisakh, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center

9:00 AM
Identification and Characterization of Transcripts Associated with Tolerance to Drought and Flooding Stress in Sugarcane
John J. Riascos, Colombian Sugarcane Research Center (Cenicaña); Jershon Lopez-Gerena, Colombian Sugarcane Research Center (Cenicaña); Jorge Ignacio Victoria, Colombian Sugarcane Research Center (Cenicaña)

9:30 AM
Subunits of Cellulose Synthase Are Preferentially Co-expressed in Storage Parenchyma and Rind of Sugarcane With Transcripts for Specific COBRA-like and Other Cell-Wall Metabolism-Related Proteins
Rosanne E. Casu, CSIRO Plant Industry; Anne L. Rae, CSIRO Plant Industry; Janine M. Nielsen, CSIRO Plant Industry; John M. Manners, CSIRO Plant Industry; Graham D. Bonnett, CSIRO Plant Industry

10:00 AM
Genomic and Epigenetic Characterization of Sugarcane Hybrids and Wild Relatives
Clicia Grativol, IBqM/Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro; Flavia Thiebaut, IBqM/Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro; Mariana Bottino, IBqM/Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro; Cristian Rojas, Universidade Federal da Unidade Latina Americana; Adriana Silva Hemerly, IBqM/Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro; Paulo Ferreira, IBqM/Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

10:30 AM
Leaf and Root-Specific Sorghum Promoters Whose Transcripts Are Also Tissue-Specific in Maize and Sugarcane
Bernard Potier, South African Sugarcane Research Institute; Sibongiseni L. Makome, South African Sugarcane Research Institute; Robyn M. Jacob, South African Sugarcane Research Institute

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