38th Illinois Corn Breeders School
March 4-5, 2002
Urbana, IL
| Monday, March 4 | |
| 7:30 - 8:50 a.m. | Registration |
| 8:50 - 9:00 a.m. | Opening Remarks, Session Introduction Moderator -Don White |
| 9:00 - 9:30 a.m. | Phenotypic Selection in Corn Forrest Troyer, Universityof Illinois |
| 9:30 - 10:00 a.m. | Issues Surrounding 40 Years of Commercial Corn
Breeding Stan Jensen, Pioneer Hi-Bred (retired) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 a.m. | Break |
| 10:30 - 11:00 a.m. | Integration of Germplasm Improvement with Corn
Breeding Arnel Hallauer, Iowa State University |
| 11:00 - 11 :30 a.m. | Disaster Avoidance in the East-Central Corn Belt:
Consistency in an Inconsistent World Kevin Montgomery, Golden Harvest |
| 11:30 - 12:00 p.m. | Panel Discussion - Applied Corn Breeding |
| 12:00 - 1 :30 p.m. | Lunch |
| 1:30 - 2:00 p.m. | Resistance to Fusarium Ear Rot and Fumonisin
Production in Corn Mike Clements, University of Illinois |
| 2:00 - 2:30 p.m. | Why Were There Stalk Rot Increases in 2000 and
2001 Jim Dodd, Professional Seed Research |
| 2:30 - 3:00 p.m. | The National Seed Health System Denis McGee, Iowa State University |
| 3:00 - 3:30 p.m. | Break |
| 3:30 - 4:00 p.m. | Transgenic Corn for Rootworm Control: What About
Secondary Insects? Kevin Steffey, University of Illinois |
| 4:00 - 4:30 p.m. | Inoculation Techniques for Diplodia Ear Rot Don White, University of Illinois |
| 4:30 - 5:30 p.m. | Social Hour |
| 5:30 - 6:40 p.m. | Dinner |
| 6:40 - 7:10 p.m. | Corn Nematodes Terry Niblack, Universityof Illinois |
| Tuesday, March 5, 2002 | |
| 8:25 - 8:30 a.m. | Introductions |
| 8:30 - 9:10 a.m. | Mining for maize alleles: Candidate Gene Associations Ed Buckler, North Carolina State University |
| 9:10 - 9:50 a.m. | What is Linkage Disequilibrium and Why Are We
Interested In It Howie Smith, Pioneer Hi-Bred |
| 9:50 - 10:30 a.m. | Break |
| 10:30 - 11:00 a.m. | Comparing QTL and Candidate Genes for Carotenoids
and Tocopherols in Two Maize Populations Jeff Wong, University of Illinois |
| 11:00 - 11:30 a.m. | Divergent Selection for Leaf Area in Maize Bob Lambert, University of Illinois |
