42nd Illinois Corn Breeder’s SchoolMarch 6-7, 2006 |
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| Monday, March 6, 2006 | |
| 7:30 a.m. | AM Registration |
| 8:20 a.m. | Welcome – Robert Hoeft, Head, Department of Crop Sciences at UIUC |
| Session 1: Maize Nitrogen Use Efficiency – Steve Moose moderator | |
| 8:30 a.m. | Evaluating Nitrogen Use Efficiency in Maize and its Physiological
Basis Fred Below, University of Illinois |
| 9:00 a.m. | Progress in breeding tropical maize for tolerance to low soil
nitrogen at IITA Abebe Menkir, International Institute for Tropical Agriculture, Ibadan, Nigeria |
| 9:30 a.m. | Discussion |
| 9:40 a.m. | Use of exotic germplasm to improve N response traits in the B73
x Mo17 hybrid. Martin Uribelarrea, UIUC |
| 10:10 a.m. | Discussion and Break |
| 10:50 a.m. | Functional Genomics Studies of Maize Nitrogen Response. Steve Moose, UIUC |
| 11:20 a.m. | Current and Future Trends in the Fertilizer Industry and their
Impacts on Corn P roduction Ron Olsen, Mosaic Corporation |
| 11:50 a.m. | Discussion |
| 12:00 p.m. | Lunch |
| Session 2: Applied Genetics –John Dudley, moderator | |
| 1:20 p.m. | Development and Genealogy of Corn Inbreds from 1980 to Present Mark Mikel, UIUC |
| 1:50 p.m. | Discussion |
| 2:00 p.m. | Association Mapping in Maize Jianming Yu, Cornell University |
| 2:30 p.m. | Phase Change QTL and High-Resolution Mapping in Recombinant Inbred
Populations Nick Lauter, USDA-ARS, Ames, IA |
| 3:00 p.m. | Discussion and Break |
| 3:30 p.m. | QTL Mapping of Fumonisin Resistance Genes in Maize Jim Holland, USDA-ARS, Raleigh, NC |
| 4:00 p.m. | Practical considerations driving the balance between backcross
and forward breeding in the development of transgenic maize hybrids Rita Mumm, GeneMax Services, Chapel Hill, NC |
| 4:30 p.m. | Discussion |
| 5:00 p.m. | Social Hour |
| 6:00 p.m. | Dinner |
| 7:00 p.m. | CIMMYT's Maize Improvement Research Strategy, Opportunities and
Challenges for 2006-2010 Kevin Pixley, CIMMYT |
| Tuesday, March 7, 2006 | |
| Session 3: Insect Resistance Traits – Martin Bohn, moderator | |
| 8:15 a.m. | Breeding with the Brown Midrib Trait Steve Plehn, Mycogen Seeds |
| 8:45 a.m. | Discussion |
| 8:55 a.m. | Western Bean Cutworm Distribution in 2005 Kevin Steffey, UIUC |
| 9:25 a.m. | Discussion and Break |
| 10:00 a.m. | Herculex RW Corn Hybrids Ed King, Dow Agrosciences |
| 10:30 a.m. | Performance of CRW Hybrids – Comparisons of 2004 versus
2005. Mike Gray, UIUC |
| 11:00 a.m. | Discussion |
| 11:15 a.m. | End of Program – Steve Moose |
The Illinois Maize Breeding and Genetics Laboratory
