NATIONAL WHEAT GENOMICS CONFERENCE SPEAKER AND POSTER ABSTRACTS

Speaker abstracts.

  1. IWGSC: A physical map and sample sequencing of the homoeologous group-3 chromosomes of wheat. Bikram S. Gill, Wanlong Li, Sunish K. Sehgal, Justin D. Faris, Leela Reddy, Katrien M. Devos, Pablo Rabinowicz, Robin Buell, Piotr Gornicki, Jaroslav Dolezel, H. Simkova, Yaqin Ma, Frances Chen, Frank M. You, and Ming-Cheng Luo.

  2. Wheat: A challenging genome to study. Katrien M. Devos.

  3. Wheat domestication and genetic diversity. Jan Dvorak, Eduard D. Akhunov, Alina R. Akhunova, Olin D. Anderson, James A. Anderson, Nancy Blake, Michael T. Clegg, Devin Coleman-Derr, Emily J. Conley, Curt C. Crossman, Karin R. Deal, Jorge Dubcovsky, Bikram S. Gill, Yong Q. Gu, Jakub Hadam, Hwayoung Y. Heo, Naxin Huo, Gerard R. Lazo, Karen E. Lundy, Ming-Cheng Luo, Ya Q. Ma, David E. Matthews, Patrick E. McGuire, Peter Morrell, Calvin O. Qualset, James Renfro, Susan Reynolds, Dindo Tabanao, Luther E. Talbert, Chao Tian, Dona Toleno, Marilyn Warburton, Frank M. You, and Wenjun Zhan.

  4. Exploring the functional roles of the Q gene homoeoalleles in wheat. Zengcui Zhang, Kristin J. Simons, Bikram S. Gill, and Justin D. Faris.

  5. The Brachypodium genome structure and its potential as a model for wheat. Olin D. Anderson, Jan Dvorak, Yong Q. Gu, Naxin Huo, Gerard R. Lazo, Ming-Cheng Luo, and John Vogel.

  6. Wheat Stem Rust Genome Project: First look under the hood. Les J. Szabo, USDA–ARS Cereal Disease Laboratory, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108, USA.

  7. Genomic and metabolic analysis of R gene-mediated defense pathways in wheat. Ming-Shun Chen, Plant Science and Entomology Research Unit, USDA–ARS, 4008 Throckmorton Hall, Kansas State University, 123 Waters Hall, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA.

  8. Fine mapping of the Lr46/Yr29 locus in wheat. Leandro Perugini, Maria Mateos-Hernandez, John Fellers, Qijian Song, Perry Cregan, Scot Hulbert, Robert Bowden, Ravi Singh, and Gina Brown-Guedira.

  9. Genetic analysis of host-toxin interactions in the wheat–Stagonospora nodorum pathosystem. Justin D. Faris, Timothy L. Friesen, Huangjun Lu, Leela Reddy, Zencui Zhang, Zhaohui Liu, Steven S. Xu, Steven W. Meinhardt, John P. Fellers, Richard P. Oliver, Peter S. Solomon, Shiaoman Chao, Chenggen Chu, Nilwala Abeysekara, and Steven R. Scofield.

  10. Toward a better understanding of a major FHB resistance QTL in tetraploid wheat. Xianwen Zhu, Xunfen Chen, Justin D. Faris, Jinguo Hu, Robert W. Stack, Tika Adhikari, Elias M. Elias, Shahryar F. Kianian, and Xiwen Cai.

  11. Linkage disequilibrium and association mapping for wheat improvement. Mark E. Sorrells and Elliot Heffner, Department of Plant Breeding & Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA.

  12. The Wheat–CAP Project: Wheat applied genomics. J. Dubcovsky, M. Soria, J. Anderson, P.S. Baenziger, W. Berzonsky, G. Brown-Guedira, K. Campbell, B. Carver, S. Chao, A. Fritz, C. Griffey, G. Bai, S. Haley, J. Johnson, S. Kianian, K. Kidwell, M. Mergoum, H. Ohm, J. Peterson, O. Riera Lizarazu, J. Rudd, L. Talbert, J. Sherman, M.E. Sorrells, E. Souza, and R. Zemetra.

  13. Wheat SNP markers: Discovery and utilization. E.D. Akhunov, Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA.

  14. Using BSMV–VIGS for functional genomics in wheat. Steven Scofield, USDA–ARS Crop Production and Pest Control Unit, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA.

  15. Development of resources for reverse-genetic analysis in Triticum monococcum. Anantharama Rishi and Shahryar F. Kianian, Department of Plant Sciences, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105, USA.

Poster abstracts.

  1. A detailed, comparative sequence analysis on the HMW-glutenin locus regions of eight genomes from diploid and polyploid wheats. Yong Qiang Gu, Devin Coleman-Derr, Gerard Lazo, Naxin Huo, Frank M. You, Xiuying Kong, Boulos Chalhoub, and Olin Anderson.

  2. Meta-analyses of QTL associated with Fusarium head blight resistance. Shuyu Liu, Carl A. Griffey, Anne L. McKendry, and Marla D. Hall.

  3. Whole genome mapping and QTL analysis in a doubled-haploid population derived from the cross between a synthetic hexaploid wheat and hard red spring wheat. Chenggen Chu, Steven S. Xu, Timothy L. Friesen, and Justin D. Faris.

  4. Development of markers from BAC-end sequences (BESs) for anchoring 3AS BAC contigs in wheat. Sunish K. Sehgal, Wanlong Li, Pablo Rabinowicz, and Bikram S. Gill.

  5. Validation of six QTL associated with Fusarium head blight resistance in adapted soft red winter wheat. Jianli Chen, Carl Griffey, Shiaoman Chao, and Gina Brown-Guedira.

  6. Molecular mapping of leaf rust resistance genes Lr41 and Lr42 in wheat. Xiaochun Sun, Guihua Bai, Brett Carver, and Robert Bowden.

  7. Mapping of QTL for heat tolerance of wheat in response to high temperature. Jung Hwa Do, Esten Mason, Mathew Reynolds, and Dirk B. Hays.

  8. Identification of seed dormancy for four populations derived from synthetic hexaploid wheat. Xing-You Gu, Shou-Jie Ren, Cheng-Gen Chu, Karl Glover, Steven S. Xu, Justin D. Faris, Timothy L. Friesen, and Amir Ibrahim.

  9. Markers linked to the adult-plant, leaf rust resistance gene Lr12 in bread wheat. Sukhwinder-Singh and R.L. Bowden.

  10. Association of seed dormancy with red pericarp color in weedy rice arises from pleiotropy of a predicted transcription factor. Xing-You Gu, Michael E. Foley, James V. Anderson, Jeffrey C. Suttle, David Horvath, and Shahryar F. Kianian.

  11. GrainGenes: Serving the wheat community for 15 years, over a billion served. David E. Matthews, Gerard R. Lazo, Victoria Carollo Blake, David L. Hane, and Olin D. Anderson.

  12. Influence of flanking sequences on transgene expression levels in the endosperm of transformed wheat. Ann E. Blechl and Jeanie W. Lin.

  13. The genetic basis of variation in vernalization requirement duration in winter wheat. Liuling Yan, Yihua Chen, and Brett Carver.

  14. A novel source of resistance in wheat to Pyrenophora tritici-repentis race 1. Sukhwinder-Singh, William W. Bockus, Indu Sharma, and R.L. Bowden.

  15. Computer tools for high-throughput wheat genome data analysis. Gerard R. Lazo, Frank M. You, David E. Matthews, Yong Q. Gu, David L. Hane, Ming- Cheng Luo, Jan Dvorak, and Olin D. Anderson.

  16. Structural characterization of the model Brachypodium genome and the observation of synteny conservation with wheat. Yong Q. Gu, Naxin Huo, Gerard R. Lazo, John P. Vogel, Frank M. You, Yaqin Ma, Ming-Cheng Luo, Jan Dvorak, and Olin D. Anderson.

  17. Mapping adult-plant resistance to powdery mildew in soft red winter wheat. Marla Hall and Carl Griffey.

  18. QTL for preharvest sprouting resistance in a hard white winter wheat Rio Blanco. Shubing Liu, Shibin Cai, Robert Graybosch, Cuixia Chen, and Guihua Bai.

  19. Using Affymetrix array to discover single nucleotide polymorphisms in wheat. A.N. Bernardo, S-W. Hu, P.J. Bradbury, R.L. Bowden, E.S. Buckler, and G-H. Bai.

  20. Mapping rice centromere genes to wheat and Triticeae and their sequence conservation between monocots and dicots. Lili Qi, Bernd Friebe, and Bikram S. Gill.

  21. Wheat–rice collinearity and chromosome walking at the Snn1 locus in wheat. Leela Reddy, Timothy L. Friesen, Steven W. Meinhardt, Shiaoman Chao, Steven R. Scofield, and Justin D. Faris.

  22. QTL analysis of drought tolerance in a spring wheat population. L.M. Smith, F.M. Kirigwi, J.P. Fellers, and A.K. Fritz.

  23. Surveying expression level polymorphism and single-feature polymorphism in near-isogenic wheat lines differing for the Yr5 stripe rust resistance locus. Tristan E. Coram, Matthew L. Settles, Meinan Wang, and Xianming Chen.

  24. High-throughput sequencing to assess the microbial diversity in Hessian fly. Raman Bansal, Scot H. Hulbert, Xuming Liu, John Reese, Jeffrey J. Stuart, and Ming-Shun Chen.

  25. Recurrent deletions of puroindoline genes at the grain hardness locus in four independent lineages of polyploid wheat. Wanlong Li, Li Huang, and Bikram S. Gill.

  26. The finished genomic sequence of the Septoria tritici blotch pathogen Mycosphaerella graminicola. Stephen B. Goodwin, Alisa L. Ponomarenko, Braham Dhillon, Igor Grigoriev, and Gert H.J. Kema.

  27. Transcriptome analysis of high-temperature adult-plant resistance conditioned by Yr39 during the wheat–Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici interaction. Tristan E. Coram, Matthew L. Settles, Feng Lin, Meinan Wang, and Xianming Chen.

  28. Interdisciplinary approaches to understanding the mechanisms of cereal crop–aphid pest interactions using a wheat–greenbug system. Yiqun Weng, Azhaguvel Perumal, G. Jerry Michels Jr., and Jackie C. Rudd.

  29. Haplotype structure and genetic diversity at Fusarium head blight resistance QTL in soft winter wheat germ plasm. Leandro Perugini, Clay Sneller, Fred Kolb, David VanSanford, Carl Griffey, Herb Ohm, and Gina Brown-Guedira.

  30. Genotyping U.S. wheat germ plasm for the presence of stem rust resistance genes Sr2, Sr24, Sr26, Sr36, and Sr1RS-Am. Eric L. Olson, David Marshall, and Gina Brown-Guedira.

  31. A simple, bead-based assay for multiplex SNP analysis in wheat. Raja Kota, Marla Hall, Carl Griffey, and Gina Brown-Guedira.