Annual meeting for 2010

Hosted by Pioneer Hi-Bred in Johnston, Iowa August 15 - 17, 2010. A full list of speakers and the schedule can be found on the Registration site.

Speakers and Titles:

Gebisa Ejeta, Purdue.
Stan Cox, The Land Institute. “The challenge of breeding perennial grain crops.”
Ross Whetten, North Carolina State University. “Loblolly pine breeding - the old and the new.”
Stacy Bonos, Rutgers. “Breeding perennial grasses for turf and biofuel.”
Shelley Jansky, USDA-ARS University of Wisconsin-Madison. “The potato gene bank pays large dividends.”
Jeffrey Habben, Pioneer. “The use of transgenes to improve plant performance: an industry perspective.”
Gary J. Muehlbauer, University of Minnesota. “Integrating genomics and breeding in the public sector: the barley CAP example."
Chris Winkler and Dean Podlich, Pioneer. “Advancing plant breeding through scientific computing.”

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