The Discipline of Plant Breeding

Agenda
 
OPENING REMARKS (8:30-8:45)
 
 
Peggy Ozias-Akins, National Association of Plant Breeders
Michael Kantar, Plant Breeding Coordinating Committee
 
 
Allen Van Deynze, University of California Seed
Biotechnology Center
 
Session 1
 
BREEDING PROGRAMS FOR FOOD AND FEED CROPS (8:45-12:00)
Chair: Peggy Ozias-Akins, Professor, University of Georgia
 
Wayne Parrott, University of Georgia
 
David Douches and Natalie Kirkwyland, Michigan State University
 
Larry Sernyk, Dow AgroSciences (retired)
 
Peggy Ozias-Akins, University of Georgia
 
Allen Van Deynze, University of California, Davis
 
Session 2
 

APPLYING GENETIC DIVERSITY TO IMPROVE THE PRODUCTIVITY,
EFFICIENCY AND RATE OF CROP IMPROVEMENT

(1:00-4:45)

Chair: Allen Van Deynze, Professor, University of California Davis
 
Shilpa Swarup, Bayer Crop Sciences
 
Katy Martin Rainey, Purdue University
 
Amy Iezzoni, Michigan State University
 
Zachary Lippman, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
 
Aaron Hummel, Pairwise