2014 ASHS Annual Conference

Objective(s):
Speaker: Dr. Amir Khoddamzadeh, Department of Horticulture & Landscape Architecture, Oklahoma State University Topic: Plant Genebanking in the Middle East and Southeast Asia, Its Potentials and Challenges Many of the gemplasm materials are originated in the Middle East and South East Asia. The increasing public awareness about the environmental protection and human health and the needs for more efficient use of natural resources mandate to have a much better understanding of the international germplasm materials which are often used in modern breeding and plants material preservation. The ASHS International Division has invited Dr. Amir Ali Khoddamzadeh, Department of Horticulture & Landscape Architecture, Oklahoma State University to speak as the ASHS International Breakfast Speaker. The title of his talk is “"Plant Genebanking in the Middle East and South East Asia, Its Potentials and Challenges. In this session, in addition to the status of gemplasm, potential and difficulties facing the germplasm materials will be discussed. Dr. Amir Ali Khoddamzadeh is currently working as a research scholar in the Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture at Oklahoma State University. He graduated in the field of agricultural biotechnology from The University Putra in Malaysia in 2011. Dr. Khoddamzadeh worked as an assistant professor at the Ferdowsi University and Agricultural Biotechnology Research Institute in Iran. He has several years of experience in teaching and research in horticultural plants (flowers, medicinal plants and ornamentals), tissue culture and conservation methods, synthetic seed, and cryopreservation.