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The 2010 ASHS Annual Conference

41:
Genetics/Germplasm/Plant Breeding: Vegetable Crops

Thursday, August 5, 2010: 1:00 PM
Springs K & L
Moderator:
1:00 PM
Determining Redundancy of Current and Collected Short-Day, Onion Accessions
Christopher S. Cramer, New Mexico State University; Rachael Gibson, New Mexico State Univ
1:15 PM
1:45 PM
Breeding for Phytonutrient Content; Examples From Watermelon
Angela Davis, USDA-ARS, South Central Ag. Res. Lab; Penelope Perkins-Veazie, North Carolina State University, Plants for Human Health Institute; Amnon Levi, USDA ARS; Stephen R. King, Millican Farms; Todd C. Wehner, NC State University
2:00 PM
Resistance in Melon PI 313970 to Cucurbit Yellow Stunting Disorder Virus
James D. McCreight, USDA ARS; William M. Wintermantel, U.S. Agricultural Research Station, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service
2:15 PM
Comparative Performance of Diploid and Synthetic Tetraploid Populations of Watermelon in the Light of Ploidy Level Changes and Genome Perturbations
Mohammad Rahman, MS, West Virginia State University; Padma Nimmakayala, Ph., D, West Virginia State University; Yan R. Tomason, Ph., D, West Virginia State University; Satish K. Ponniah, Ph., D, West Virginia State University; Chinthakuntla R. Reddy, Alcorn State University; Umesh K. Reddy, Ph., D, West Virginia State University
2:30 PM
Population Structure and Association Mapping in Watermelon
Padma Nimmakayala, Ph., D, West Virginia State University; Yan R. Tomason, Ph., D, West Virginia State University; Gopinath Venkata Vajja, MS, West Virginia State University; Umesh K. Reddy, Ph., D, West Virginia State University
2:45 PM
Development for Tri-Genomic Hexaploid Brassica Populations
Julie A. Plummer, Univ of Western Australia; Aneeta Pradhan, Univ of Western Australia; Ping Si, Univ of Western Australia; Annaliese Mason, Univ of Western Australia; Mathew Nelson, Univ of Western Australia; Wallace Cowling, Univ of Western Australia; Guijun Yan, Univ of Western Australia; Shyama Weerakoon, Univ of Western Australia