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2020 Symposium

2020 R. F. Baker Plant Breeding Symposium

 Breeding Vision: Bringing the whole picture into focus

Friday, March 6, 2020

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

Speakers:

Christopher Topp
Christopher Topp - Danforth Plant Sciences Center
Van Der Knapp
Esther van der Knapp - University of Georgia
Antonio Augusto Franco Garcia
Antonio A. F. Garcia - University of São Paulo (ESALQ)
Marcio Resende
Marcio Resende -
University of
Florida
Maria Salas
Maria Salas Fernandez - Iowa State
University
Jessie Alt
Jessie Alt -
Corteva
Agriscience


 

 


 

 

Graduate Student Speakers:

Qi Mu
Qi Mu - Iowa State University
Balpreet Kaur Dhatt
Balpreet Kaur Dhatt - University Nebraska-Lincoln

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Presentation Recordings

1. Marcio Resende: Genomics and phenomics applied to sweet corn breeding.

 

2. Balpreet Dhatt: Allelic Variation in HNT8.1 Contributes to Grain Width Under High Night Temperature Stress in Rice.

 

3. Qi Mu: A step forward in predicting phenotypic performance in diverse field environments.

 

4. Christopher Topp: 3D imaging and computational approaches reveal the genetic basis of plant root and inflorescence architecture.

 

5. Jessie Alt: Collecting the dots and connecting the dots: Breeding for novel product concepts.

 

6. Antonio Augusto Franco Garcia: Genetic mapping in autopolyploids.

 

7. CALS Award for Sustained Excellence for Dr. Chase.