Plant Breeding Seminar

Fall 2001 Schedule

Time:

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

Contact:

• James Holland (513-4198, james_holland@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 / Loc

September

26

Cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenase in loblolly pine: genetics, wood properties, breeding

Dr. David O'Malley, Research Associate Professor

Forestry, NC State

3:45-4:45 / 2405 Williams

October

10

Interfacing plant breeding and transformation technologies at NCSU

Dr. Bill Thompson, University Research Professor

Botany, NC State

3:45-4:45 / 2405 Williams

31

Use of BLUPs to choose parents for disease resistance in peanut

Dr. Tom Isleib, Professor

Crop Science, NC State

3:45-4:45 / 2405 Williams

November

7

Examination of maize flowering time using candidate gene association tests

Dr. Jeff Thornsberry, Research Associate

Genetics, NC State

3:45-4:45 / 2405 Williams

14

Evolutionary genomics in plants

Dr. Spencer Muse, Assistant Professor

Statistics, NC State

3:45-4:45 / 2405 Williams

21

Thanksgiving vacation

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28

Bt crops in the US and Developing Countries

Dr. Fred Gould, WNR Professor

Entomology, NC State

3:45-4:45 / 2405 Williams

December

12

Cotton breeding in the USA

Dr. Daryl Bowman, Professor

Crop Science, NC State

3:45-4:45 / 2405 Williams