Sunday, February 16

Reception, Capital View room-UW Memorial Union

Monday, February 17 - Tripp Commons UW Memorial

Registration

“Exotic genetic contribution to GEM maize lines”

D.B. Willmot, USDA-ARS, University of Missouri and L.M. Pollak, USDA-ARS, Iowa State University

“Genetics of root architecture and P efficiency in maize"

Shawn Kaeppler, University of Wisconsin-Madison

“Divergent selection for vegetative phase change and resistance to common rust"

W.F. Tracy, C.F. Basso, M.M. Hurkman, and B.G. Abedon, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Break

“Selection for silage quality in the Wisconsin quality synthetic”

T.J. Frey*, J.G. Coors, D.T. Eilert, P.J. Flannery, Department of Agronomy, University of Wisconsin-Madison

"Research with open-pollinated corn and varietal hybrids; results from SARE"

W. Goldstein, Michael Fields Agricultural Institute; K. Lamkey, USDA-ARS, Iowa State University; Z. Wicks, South Dakota State University; M. Carena, North Dakota State University; R. Exner, Iowa State University

"Identification of alternative maize heterotic groups in the northern Corn Belt"

Marcelo Melani and Marcello J. Carena, North Dakota State University

"Introgression of elite subtropical and tropical germplasm to temperate environments"

Arnel Hallauer, Iowa State University

"More on the background of U.S. hybrid corn"

Forrest Troyer, University of Illinois

Break

"Genetic control of prolificacy and related traits in the Golden Glow maize population"

N. de Leon*, J.G. Coors, and S.M. Kaeppler, Department of Agronomy, University of Wisconsin-Madison

"Defining sequences at the teosinte branched 1 locus that were selected during maize domestication"

Richard Clark, Department of Genetics, University of Wisconsin

"Cross incompatibility genes and pollen flow"

J. Kermicle*, Department of Genetics, University of Wisconsin

Business Meeting

Tuesday, February 18:Tripp Commons- UW Memorial Union

"Plant breeding, genomics, quantitative genetics and the public private interface"

John Dudley, University of Illinois-Urbana

"Exotic populations for improving early corn"

Jennifer Taller and Rex Bernardo, University of Minnesota

"Usefulness of random mating prior to selfing in maize backcross populations"

Martin Arbelbide and Rex Bernardo, University of Minnesota

"Genome fluidity and quantitative genetics"

Liz Lee, University of Guelph

"Genetic control of phosphorous concentration in maize grain"

Brandon Wardyn, W.Ken Russell, Dana Galusha, University of Nebraska

"Maize QTLs for resistance to Cercospora zeae-maydis across generations and environments revealed by selective genotyping"

S.G. Gordon, M. Bartsch, I. Matthies, H. Gevers, P.E. Lipps, R.C. Pratt*,
Ohio State University