Plant Breeding Seminar

Fall 1998 Schedule

Time:

• 3:30 - 4:30 pm (refreshments at 3:15 - 3:30 pm)

Contact:

• Ron Qu (515-7616, ron_qu@ncsu.edu) or
• Todd Wehner (515-5363, todd_wehner@ncsu.edu)

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

Date

Subject

Speaker

Department

Location

September

9

Molecular farming: concepts, potential, advances and setbacks

Anthony Huang

UC Riverside

2-3 pm / 3533 Gardner

23

Wheat transformation for drought tolerance and resistance to wheat streak mosaic virus

Ron Qu

Crop Science

3:30-4:30 / 121 Kilgore

October

7

Tall fescue breeding for brown patch resistance

Melodee Fraser

Pure Seed Testing

3:30-4:30 / 121 Kilgore

28

Meiotic drive of chromosomal knobs reshaped the maize genome

Ed Buckler

Statistics

3:30-4:30 / 121 Kilgore

November

4

Sweetpotato breeding

Craig Yencho

Horticultural Science

3:30-4:30 / 121 Kilgore

11

Protecting intellectual property in plants

Virginia Bennett

Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

3:30-4:30 / 2405 Williams

18

Molecular markers, QTL mapping and marker-assisted selection

Zhaobang Zeng

Statistics

3:30-4:30 / 121 Kilgore

December

2

Shifty enemies - population structure of phytobacteria and deploying host resistance

Frank Louws

Plant Pathology

3:30-4:30 / 121 Kilgore