Day 1 - 24 June 2010
Clark A103

8 am     Registration and reception
8:30      Welcome and introduction
9:00      Pat Byrne – Plant breeding for drought tolerance
9:30      Marc Moragues – Wheat breeding and physiology of drought
10:30    Tim Setter – Maize genes involved in ear and kernel set in response to water deficit
11:30    Break for lunch
1:00      Yoseph Beyene – Marker-assisted breeding and transgenic approaches to improve drought tolerance in tropical maize
1:30      Lisa Donovan – Can we mine wild sunflower species for the genetic basis of drought tolerant traits?
2:30      Break
3:00     John McKay – Physiology and genomics of drought acclimation and adaptation in Arabidopsis (and beyond)
4:00     Asrat Asfaw - QTL analysis of root development and distribution in common bean under contrasting water availability
5:00     Poster Session

8 am     Coffee
8:30      John McKay - Introduction
9:00      Roberto Tuberosa – Dissection of Drought Tolerance in Maize and Durum Wheat via the QTL Approach
10:00    Surya Shrestha – Screening of drought tolerance in Pacific Northwest wheat through physiological and genetic approaches
11:00    Renee Lafitte - Whole plant responses, key processes and adaptation to drought stress
12:00    Break for lunch
1:30      Jianli Chen - Physiology breeding for drought tolerance at University of Idaho Wheat Breeding and Genetics Program
2:00     Rachid Serraj – Crop physiology and drought phenotyping: concepts and tools – case of rice at IRRI
3:00     Surya P Bhattarai - Breeding for drought tolerance in tomato: capitalizing on multiple approaches
3:45     Richard Richards – Breeding for improved water-productivity – genes, QTL’s and phenotypes
5:00     Discuss opportunities for international collaboration/ Wrap-up and summary