Plant Breeding Seminar

Fall 2000 Schedule

Time:

• 3:45 - 4:45 pm (refreshments at 3:30 - 3:45 pm)

Contact:

• Paul Murphy (513-0000, paul_murphy@ncsu.edu) or
• Todd Wehner (515-5363, todd_wehner@ncsu.edu)

The seminars will usually include discussion time - PLAN to CONTRIBUTE!

Date

Subject

Speaker

Dept.

Time / Location

September

20

Reflections of a Pioneer Soybean Breeder

Tom Corbin

Pioneer Seed Co.

3:45-4:45 / 2405 Williams

October

11

The Value of Insignificant Differences

Kim Campbell

USDA-ARS, WA State Univ.

3:45-4:45 / 2405 Williams

18

Postponed

-

-

-

25

Soybean breeding in Yugoslavia

Jegor Miladinavic

Crop Science

3:45-4:45 / 2405 Williams

November

1

Tall Fescue Transformation

Yuyu Bai

Crop Science

3:45-4:45 / 2405 Williams

8

Epistasis in Plant Breeding

Jim Holland

USDA-ARS, Crop Science

3:45-4:45 / 2405 Williams

15

Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus: Adaptation to Host and Transgenic Resistance

Jim Moyer

Plant Pathology

3:45-4:45 / 2405 Williams

29

NCSU Plant Breeding web page--overview and discussion

Todd Wehner

Horticultural Science

3:45-4:45 /
159 Kilgore

December

14

Genomics and the clonal field bank

Ray Schnell

National Germplasm Repository, Miami, FL

3:45-4:45 /
McKimmon Room, Williams Hall