2018 ASHS Annual Conference
Application of New Breeding Technologies for Improving Horticultural Crops *CEU Approved*
Application of New Breeding Technologies for Improving Horticultural Crops *CEU Approved*
Objective(s):
Horticultural plant breeding is a process of genetic improvement for meeting various needs of growers and consumers. While traditional breeding technologies continue to be the foundation for crop improvement, advances in marker assisted breeding, next-generation sequencing, and genetic transformation in the recent past have revolutionized plant breeding and offered new and effective ways for plant breeders to manipulate traits at the levels of individual gene(s) or gene blocks. With the help of some of these technologies, virus-resistant papaya and squash have been widely commercialized and virus-resistant plum and non-browning apples, already deregulated by the USDA, are on the horizon to be released. More recently, a new generation of breeding technologies emerges, such as transgrafting, MAB and fast-track breeding, cisgenesis/intragenesis, and genome editing technologies; and several of them have proven very effective for solving problems that are otherwise difficult to combat with the existing breeding tools and technologies. This workshop invites experts to discuss recent progresses and future perspectives of these and other new breeding technologies for the improvement of horticultural plants, with an emphasis on commercial fruit crops.
Horticultural plant breeding is a process of genetic improvement for meeting various needs of growers and consumers. While traditional breeding technologies continue to be the foundation for crop improvement, advances in marker assisted breeding, next-generation sequencing, and genetic transformation in the recent past have revolutionized plant breeding and offered new and effective ways for plant breeders to manipulate traits at the levels of individual gene(s) or gene blocks. With the help of some of these technologies, virus-resistant papaya and squash have been widely commercialized and virus-resistant plum and non-browning apples, already deregulated by the USDA, are on the horizon to be released. More recently, a new generation of breeding technologies emerges, such as transgrafting, MAB and fast-track breeding, cisgenesis/intragenesis, and genome editing technologies; and several of them have proven very effective for solving problems that are otherwise difficult to combat with the existing breeding tools and technologies. This workshop invites experts to discuss recent progresses and future perspectives of these and other new breeding technologies for the improvement of horticultural plants, with an emphasis on commercial fruit crops.
Genetic engineering (GE) provides powerful tools to improve fruit quality and productivity. This workshop, co-sponsored by Working Group of Asian Horticulture (WGAH) and Plant Biotechnology Group (BTCH), focuses on potential strategies that can be used to increase “fruit productivity”. Five invited speakers will lead the following discussions:
- Genome editing technologies: How can genome editing technologies be used to effectively manipulate fruit development process?
- Cell engineering for fruit breeding: What are new findings on using somatic hybrids for non-GE fruit breeding?
- Tree architecture manipulation: How can genetic manipulation of fruit tree architecture be achieved?
- Genomics: What has been revealed about the mechanism of self-incompatibility by genome sequencing?
- New strategies for high yield: What is the potential for yield increase by manipulating flowering pathway genes?
These discussions will highlight the potential and practicalities of utilizing new biotechnology strategies for the improvement of horticultural plants.
Thursday, August 2, 2018: 8:00 AM
Jefferson West (Washington Hilton)
Coordinator:
Moderators:
Sanjun Gu
and
Youping Sun
8:00 AM
8:20 AM
8:40 AM
9:20 AM
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