2009 Annual Research Meeting--Posters
Theme 1: Exploiting allelic diversity
1.1: Genetic studies of yield components in early generations Notes: of interspecifi c rice populations (Presenter: A Efisue)
1.2: Study of Burkina Faso rice landraces diversity and breeding for resistance to Rice Yellow Mottle Virus (RYMV) (Presenter: K Honore)
1.3: Phenotyping maize inbred lines for the maximum utilization of drought tolerance in maize (Presenter: J Gethi)
1.4: A whole genome scan of cultivated sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L. Moench):Evolving diversity in the light of different marker systems (Presenter: JC Glaszmann)
1.5: Genome-wide Survey (HaplOryza) in rice (Presenter: C Billot)
1.6: Generating new wheat germplasm with enhanced drought/heat tolerance using AB genomes (Presenter: S Misra)
1.7: Genotyping Validation of GCP reference sets (Presenter: Sarah McGrath)
1.8: A genetic model for the female sterility barrier between Asian and African cultivated rice species (Presenter: A Ghesquiere) - Poster yet to be submitted by presenter
1.9: MAGIC: Facilitating gene discovery in rice (Presenter: H Leung)
1.10: Phenotyping sorghum reference set for post-flowering drought tolerance (Presenter: H Upadhyaya)
Theme 2: Genomic resources and gene/pathway discovery
2.1: Discovery and development of alleles contributing to sorghum drought tolerance (Presenter: A Paterson)
2.2: Dissecting the role of root traits in water uptake, maintenance of plant growth, and dehydration avoidance mechanisms in rice (Presenter: R Serraj)
2.3: GreenPhylDB v2.0: An improved database for plant functional Genomics (Presenter: M Rouard)
2.4: Improving tools for pearl millet marker- assisted breeding—it’s a struggle (Presenter: T Hash)
2.5: Phenotyping tools to select for adaptive traits in drought environments (Presenter: F Ogbonnaya)
2.6: Banana and Plantain (Musa) Genomics: Missing opportunity? (Presenter: N Roux)
2.7: Improving Grain Yield on Acid Soils by the Identification of Genetic Factors Underlying Drought and Aluminum Tolerance in Maize and Sorghum (Presenter: L Kochian)
2.8: Development and evaluation of drought-adapted sorghum germplasm for Africa and Australia (Presenter: A Borrell)
2.9: Delayed Leaf Senescence and Drought Tolerance in Rice (Presenter: E Blumwald)
2.10: Transcriptome analysis of germinating maize kernels reveals substantial differences between the effects of smoke-water and the active compound butenolide (Presenter: V Soos)
2.11: A 1,393 marker loci genetic map of chickpea (Presenter: R Varshney)
2.12: A QTL study on late leaf spot and rust revealed a major QTL and candidate marker for rust resistance to deploy in molecular breeding of groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.) (Presenter: R Varshney)
2.13: Cowpea High‐Throughput SNP Genotyping,1,000 SNP Genetic Map and Complete Physical Map (Presenter: P Roberts)
2.14: Rapiid Trranscrriipttome Sequenciing off sweetpotato (Presenter: R Schafleitner)
2.15: Diversity and distribution of single feature polymorphisms in food crop legumes. (Presenter: D Cook)
Theme 3: Marker development and breeding applications
3.1: Marker assisted backcrossing of Saltol and mapping novel QTLs associated with salinity tolerance in rice by selective genotyping (Presenter: A Ismail)
3.2: Use of Identified QTL to Improve the Efficiency of Breeding for Long Coleoptile Length of Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) (Presenter: JK Wang)
3.3: Application of marker-assisted backcrossing in line development of popular rice varieties in the Mekong Region (Presenter: T Toojinda)
3.4: Identification of association between microsatellite markers and Downy mildew resistance in elite maize inbred lines in Thailand (Presenter: C Phumichai)
3.5: Incorporation of an MSV resistance gene in Mozambican maize varieties mediated by use of MAS (Presenter: J Danson)
3.6: Breeders Tool Kit: A cheap and convenient high throughput method optimised for the sampling and detection of polymorphism using FTA cards and real-time PCR (Presenter: J Danson)
3.7: Marker assisted breeding for the development of farmer preferred cassava lines with delayed PPD resistance in Ghana (Presenter: R Thompson)
3.9: Evaluation of cassava F1 genotypes and progenitors resistant to Cassava Mosaic Disease (CMD) for the putative presence of the CMD2 resistant gene using molecular markers (Presenter: E Parkes)
3.10: Combining Marker-Assisted and farmer variety selections for Striga resistance in cowpea (Vigna unguiculata (L.) WALP) (Presenter: J. B.S. Tignegre)
3.11: Introgression of enhanced micronutrients and other important traits from Latin American germplasm into elite Nigerian cassava cultivars (Presenter: C Egesi)
.12: Screening for drought and Helicoverpa Armigera tolerance in selected chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) germplasm in semi-arid areas of Kenya (Presenter: P Kimurto)
3.13: Selection of drought-tolerant cowpea lines under several environments in Burkina Faso (Presenter: I Drabo)
3.14: Basal Root Architecture Traits for Drought and Low Phosphorus Tolerance in Common Bean (Presenter: J Lynch)
3.15: QTL validation in introgression line populations of common wheat (Presenter: R Jing)
3.16: Linking genetic diversity with phenotype for drought tolerance traits through molecular and physiological characterization of a diverse reference collection of chickpea (Presenter: L Krishnamurthy)
3.17: Molecular breeding of Pup1-rice varieties and candidate gene characterization (Presenter: S Heuer)
3.18: Field drought screening technique for rainfed lowland rice (Presenter: B Jongdee)
3.19: Validation of the effect of the gene for tolerance to Al toxicity in sorghum, AltSB, using isogenic lines and hybrids in field and nutrient solution experiments (Presenter: R Schaffert) - PDF yet to be submitted by presenter
3.20: Molecular cytogenetic identifi cation, physical mapping and drought tolerance of wheat-barley introgression lines (Presenter: M Molnár-Láng)
Theme 4: Support services and enabling delivery (incorporating training and capacity-building)
4.1: Statistical support for the design and data analysis of GCP projects (Presenter: M Malosetti)
4.2: Drought stress profiling for improved phenotyping: characterizing cultivar trial sites (Presenter: N Shrestha)
4.3: Agropolis Resource Center for Crop Conservation, Adaptation and Diversity (Presenter: JL Pham)
4.4: The GCP phenotyping template (Presenter: T Fulton)
4.5: Reference sets of food crop germplasm for international collaboration GCP Workshop held in Montpellier, November 13-17, 2008 (Presenter: JC Glaszmann)
4.6: HaploPhyle a Graphical Haplotype Network in the Light of External Data (Presenter: C Billot)
4.7: Extension of the GCP stress gene catalogue using maize genome sequence information (Presenters: T Shah and G Davenport)
4.8: Future sustainable HPC Grid Computing platforms (Presenter: A Collins)
4.9: Crop ontology: A reference controlled vocabulary on crop trait information for maize, wheat, chickpea, sorghum, Musa, potato, and rice (Presenter: R Shrestha)
4.10: Development of an integrated GCP informatics platform (Presenter: M Senger)
4.11: iMAS: SystemiMAS: An Integrated Decision Support System For MarkerFor Marker--Aided Breeding-aided Breeding (Presenter: A Rathore)
4.12: Support to GCP scientists regarding issues related to bioinformatics and data handling (Presenter: E van Strien)
4.13: Registering and Uploading Datasets in the Generation CP Central Registry (Presenter: E Arnaud)
4.14: Assessment of NGS assembly tools for SNP discovery (Presenter: V Thakur)
4.15: The Interactive Resource Center & Helpdesk (Presenter: T Fulton)
4.16: Assessment of National Capacity to Utilize GCP Technologies in Five Case Study Countries (Presenter: R Tenorio)
4.17: Toolbox of available molecular markers useful for marker-assisted selection in GCP crops (Presenter: V van Damme)