Breeding in a Genomics Era: State of the Art and New Opportunities

Objective(s):
The objectives of the colloquium will be to help bridge the gap between breeding, MAS and genotyping with agronomic crops and vegetable/horticultural crops, with a target audience of professionals and students involved in improvement and conservation of horticultural crops.
The sequencing of plant genomes and the development of genome wide SNP arrays for a number of agronomic and specialty-crops is leading to new opportunities to better understand the organization of variation in germplasm and to develop new breeding strategies.  USDA funded large collaborative grant programs, such as The USDA-AFRI funded SolCAP and USDA-SCRI funded RosBREED projects as well as private/public partnerships exist and have aided in expediting the breeding process by funding research. The objectives of the colloquium will be to help bridge the gap between breeding, MAS and genotyping with agronomic crops and vegetable/horticultural crops, with a target audience of professionals and students involved in improvement and conservation of horticultural crops.
Wednesday, August 1, 2012: 2:00 PM
Concourse I
Moderators:
Coordinators:
3:30 PM
What the Infinium 8303 Potato SNP Array Tells Us about 100 Years of Potato Breeding
David Douches, Ph.D., Michigan State University; Candice N. Hansey, Michigan State University; Kim Fletcher, Michigan State University; Joseph Coombs, Michigan State University; Robin Buell, Michigan State University
4:15 PM
The Effects of Human Selection on Elite Tomato Germplasm and Implications for Genome-based Selection
David Francis, Ph.D., The Ohio State University; Sung-Chur Sim, The Ohio State University; Heather Merk, The Ohio State University; Allen Van Deynze, University of California; Kevin Stoffel, University of California; John Hamilton, Michigan State University; C. Robin Buell, Michigan State University; Dan Zarka, Michigan State University; David Douches, Ph.D., Michigan State University
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