| Date |
Subject |
Speaker |
Dept. |
Time
/ Loc |
|
January |
| 12 |
Hybrid soybean seed production: goals and challenges |
Evelyn Ortiz-Perez and Reid Palmer, Research Assistant and Professor |
Dept. Crop
Science, Univ. Illinois |
3:45-4:45
/ 216 Scott Hall |
31 |
Special seminar - Tomato genome sequencing (sponsored by the Hort. Sci. Grad. Student Assoc.) |
Dr. Steve Tanksley, Professor |
Dept. Plant Breeding, Cornell University |
3:00-4:00 / 2215 Williams Hall |
|
February |
| 2 |
open |
- |
- |
- |
| 9 |
Future plant breeding support at NC State |
Dr. Steve Leath, Assoc. Dean and Director, NCARS |
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences |
3:45-4:45
/ 2405 Williams Hall |
| 16 |
Panel
discussion: Plant breeding course overview
for NCSU |
Panel,
Drs. Stalker (chair), Bowman, Burton, and Werner |
Depts.
Crop and Hort. Science, NC State |
3:45-4:45
/ 2405 Williams Hall |
| 23 |
Panel
discussion: Establishment of a plant breeding
program at NCSU |
Panel, Drs. Wehner (chair), Goodman, Levin, and Yencho |
Depts.
Crop and Hort. Science, NC State |
3:45-4:45
/ 2405 Williams Hall |
|
March |
| 2 |
Bramble breeding |
Dr. Gina Fernandez, Associate Professor |
Dept. Hort. Science, NC State |
3:45-4:45 / 2405 Williams Hall |
| 9 |
Spring
break |
- |
- |
- |
| 16 |
Overview of MSU symposium on Public plant breeding; who will train plant breeders? |
Dr. Todd Wehner, Professor |
Dept. Hort. Science, NC State |
3:45-4:45 / 2405 Williams Hall |
| 23 |
Maize breeding |
Dr. James Holland, Research Geneticist and Assistant Professor |
USDA-ARS and Dept. Crop Science, NC State |
3:45-4:45 / 2405 Williams Hall |
30 |
open |
- |
- |
- |
|
April |
18 |
Special seminar - Tomato Flavor: Taking Apart a Complex Trait with Molecular and Genetic Tools (sponsored by the Hort. Sci. Grad. Student Assoc. |
Dr. Harry Klee, Professor |
Dept. Horticultural Sciences, Univ. Florida |
3:00-4:00 / 159 Kilgore Hall |
18 |
Special seminar - Bridging the Divide Between Environment, Agriculture and Forestry, reception following (sponsored by the colleges of Natural Resources and Agriculture & Life Sciences) |
Dr. Norman Borlaug, Nobel Laureate (1970) |
CIMMYT researcher and Texas A&M Univ. professor emeritus |
7:00-8:00 / McKimmon Center |
May |
26 |
Reinventing Plant breeding (host Steve Leath; refreshments at 3:00 pm) |
Dr. Ted Crosbie, vice president - global plant breeding |
Monsanto Corp. |
3:45-4:45 / 2405 Williams Hall |
