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2016 Symposium

2016 R. F. Baker Plant Breeding Symposium

                Thinking outside the yield box:

A look at sustainability, efficiency, nutrition and tolerance

Thursday, March 3, 2016

Sponsored by DuPont Pioneer and ISU Department of Agronomy
Organized by ISU plant breeding graduate students

Speakers

Bill Tracy
Bill Tracy - University of Wisconsin-Madison
David Stelly
David Stelly -Texas A&M University
narasimhamoorthy
Brindha Narasimhamoorthy-Kemin Industries
Danny Singh
Danny Singh - Iowa State University
Jim Gaffney
Jim Gaffney - DuPont Pioneer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Graduate Student Speakers

Chantal McCabe
Chantal MaCabe - Iowa State University
Brandon Huber
Brandon Huber - North Carolina State University

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Presentation Recordings

1. Dr. Bill Tracy: The Creative Power of Plant Breeding.

 

2. Dr. David M Stelly: Genetic Improvement of Cotton under a Lens - Successes, Failures, Challenges, and Opportunities.

 

3. Dr. Danny Singh: Application of Machine Learning in Soybean Breeding.

 

4. Dr. Jim Gaffney: Eight+ Decades of Research at DuPont Pioneer: Abiotic Stress, Efficient Use of Resources, and the Global Challenge.

 

5. Brandon Huber: Breeding of Stevia Rebaudiana.

 

 

6. Chantel McCabe: Characterization of Resistant and Susceptible Responses to Phialophora gregata in Soybean using RNA-Seq.