GENETICS GRADUATE GROUP
Seminar in Plant Breeding and Biodiversity

GGG 292 (CRN 43917) Fall 2009

Seminars will be Mondays, 4:10 – 5:00 p.m. in PES 2005.

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Date Title Speaker
Oct. 5 Improving maize productivity in water-limiting environments
Jacqueline Heard
Monsanto Co.
Oct. 12 Feral crops for the study of the evolution of invasiveness
Norman Ellstrand
Ctr for Conservation Biology;
Dept. of Botany & Plant Sciences
UC Riverside
Oct. 19 Multiple domestications in Phaseolus Paul Gepts
Dept. of Plant Sciences
UC Davis
Oct. 26 Macro assembly of the Sorghum bicolor genome from a whole genome shotgun sequence, and insights from the sorghum genome John Bowers
Plant Genome Mapping
Laboratory
Univ of Georgia
Nov. 2 Accelerated Yield Technology: Context-Specific MAS for Yield QTL Scott Sebastian
Pioneer Hi-Bred Inc.
Nov. 9 What I have learned from studying rice domestication Tao Sang 
Dept. of Plant Biology
Univ of Michigan
Nov. 16 Population structure in wild barley: implications for barley domestication Peter Morrell
Dept. of Agronomy & Plant Genetics
Univ of Minnesota
Nov. 23 Genetic diversity in wild tomatoes: how genome evolution and reproductive barriers limit its utilization Roger Chetelat
Dept. of Plant Sciences
UC Davis

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