SPEAKER AND POSTER ABSTRACTS
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2012 U.S. WHEAT GENOMICS WORKSHOP
Poster 1. The International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium (IWGSC), The International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium [22]
Poster 2. The IWGSC Chromosome-Based Survey Sequencing Initiative, The International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium [22-23]
Poster 3. TriAnnot: a high performance pipeline for the automated structural and functional annotation of plant genomes - new developments, Philippe Leroy, Nicolas Guilhot, Isabelle Lesur-Kupin, Patricia Faivre, Sébastien Theil, Frédéric Choulet, Hiroaki Sakai, Michael Alaux, Takeshi Itoh, Hadi Quesneville, Christophe Plomion, and Catherine Feuillet [23]
Poster 4. Current status of physical mapping on wheat chromosome 6B, F. Kobayashi, S. Katagiri, W. Karasawa, Y. Hanawa, S. Kaneko, S. Nasuda, K. Hayakawa, H. Fujisawa, Y. Ito, Y. Mukai, J. Dolezel, T. Matsumoto, J. Wu, and H. Handa [24-25]
Poster 5. The distribution, duplication, pseudogenization, and expression of noncollinear genes of wheat chromosome 3B, Natasha Glover, Frédéric Choulet, Sébastien Theil, Josquin Daron, Lise Pingault, Etienne Paux, and Catherine Feuillet [25]
Poster 6. Survey of the wheat 5AS chromosome synteny in Triticum species with different ploidy levels, D. Barabaschi, V. Michelotti, K. Lacrima, F. Desiderio, A. Gadaleta, I. Centomani, A. Giancaspro, S. Giove, A. Blanco, E. Francia, V. Mazzamurro, N. Pecchioni, A. Fricano, P. Piffanelli, A.M. Mastrangelo, M. Valarik, A.M. Stanca, L. Cattivelli, and G. Valé [26]
Poster 7. Physical mapping resources for large plant genomes: Radiation hybrids for the D-genome of Chinese Spring and Aegilops tauschii accession AL8/78, Ajay Kumar, Vijay K. Tiwari, Thomas Drader, Kristin Simons, Muhammad J. Iqbal, Monika M. de Jimenez, Filippo M. Bassi, Farhad Ghavami, Omar Al-Azzam, Lingli Dong, Yi Wang, Ming-Cheng Luo, Yong Q. Gu, Anne Denton, Gerard Lazo, Jeffrey M. Leonard, Oscar Riera-Lizarazu, and Shahryar F. Kianian [26-27]
Poster 8. Construction of a radiation hybrid map for chromosome 6B of common wheat, Shyota Watanabe, Miyuki Nitta, Takashi R. Endo, and Shuhei Nasuda [27]
Poster 9. A NimbleGen comparative genomic hybridization array for high-throughput physical mapping of genome specific repeat junction and gene-based markers in the D genome of hexaploid wheat, Thomas Drader, Lingli Dong, Yi Wang, Ajay Kumar, Vijay K. Tiwari, Muhammad Iqbal, Jeff M. Leonard, Gerard Lazo, Anne Denton, Shahryar Kianian, Ming-Cheng Luo, and Yong Gu [27-28]
Poster 10. Genome-wide characterization of transposable element repeat junctions in barley and their application in marker development for chromosome 3H, Mona Mazaheri, Penny M.A. Kianian, Raed Seetan, Ajay Kumar, Anne M. Denton, Ruvini Ariyadasa, Nils Stein, Hana Simkova, Jaroslav Doelzel, Thomas Drader, Yong Q. Gu, and Shahryar F. Kianian [28]
Poster 11. Best practices for RNA-Seq differential expression analysis in barley, Dharanya Sampath, Sarah Ayling, David Swarbreck, Melanie Febrer, Pete E. Hedley, Matthias Pfeifer, Burkhard Steuernagel, Klaus Mayer, Robbie Waugh, and Mario Caccamo [28-29]
Poster 12. A triticale (x Triticosecale Wittm.) reference transcriptome, Michele Frick, Yong Xu, Carolyn Penniket, Laurian S. Robert, Linda J. Harris, Frances Tran, Danielle Schneiderman, Patrick J. Gulick, and André Laroche [29]
Poster 13. De novo assembly and characterization of wheat root transcriptome, Ghana S. Challa and Wanlong Li [30]
Poster 14. BREEDWHEAT: Breeding for economically and environmentally sustainable wheat varieties: an integrated approach from genomics to selection, The Breedwheat Consortium [30]
Poster 15. Molecular breeding in wheat: findings from an international survey, Susanne Dreisigacker, Petr Kosina, Sukhwinder Singh, and Hans-Joachim Braun [31]
Poster 16. Imprints of selection in CIMMYT wheat lines targeted to irrigated and rain-fed environments, Susanne Dreisigacker, Ravi P. Singh, Yann Manes, and Hans-Joachim Braun [31]
Poster 17. Deriving a hard red winter wheat prebreeding population suitable for marker-facilitated recurrent mass selection, Bradley Bisek and Francois Marais [31-32]
Poster 18. Creation of a new resource for fine mapping in wheat: a nested association mapping population, G. Charmet, M.R. Perretant, J.B. Beaufumé, and S. Praud [32]
Poster 19. Association analysis in a panel of eastern U.S. winter wheat lines, Keith R. Merrill, Shiaoman Chao, J. Paul Murphy, and Gina L. Brown-Guedira [33]
Poster 20. Genome-wide characterization and capture of exotic alleles for increased yield from primary synthetic bread wheat, Sandra M. Dunckel, Jesse A. Poland, and David G. Bonnett [33]
Poster 21. A genomewide SNP scan of the diversity, population structure, and linkage disequilibrium in East African wheat (Triticum aestivum L.), Macharia Godwin, Shiaoman Chao, and Jim Anderson [34]
Poster 22. Sequence-based, SNP genotyping in durum wheat, Jifeng Tang, Lily Truong, Marco Maccaferri, Remco van Poecke, Marcos Ramos, Antoine Janssen, Nathalie van Orsouw, Silvio Salvi, Roberto Tuberosa, and Edwin van der Vossen [34]
Poster 23. SNP mapping in a doubled haploid, hexaploid wheat population, Adrian L. Cabral, Mark Jordan, Curt McCartney, Curtis Pozniak, and Gavin Humphreys. [35]
Poster 24. Study of pre-anthesis development in barley (Hordeum vulgare L.), Ahmad M. Alqudah, Benjamin Kilian, and Thorsten Schnurbusch [35]
Poster 25. Sequencing of vrs1 and int-c loci shows that labile barleys (Hordeum vulgare convar. labile) have a six-rowed genetic background, Helmy M. Youssef, Ravi Koppolu, and Thorsten Schnurbusch [35-36]
Poster 26. A large-scale, mutant panel of einkorn wheat developed by heavy-ion beam mutagenesis and its application for flowering-time mutant screening, Aiko Nishiura, Yusuke Kazama, Tomoko Abe, Miyuki Nitta, Shuhei Nasuda, and Koji Murai [36]
Poster 27. Disruption of circadian clock caused by the earliness per se 3Am locus (Eps-3Am) contributes to early flowering in wheat (Triticum sp. L.), Piotr Gawronski, Ruvini Ariyadasa, Naser Poursarebani, Axel Himmelbach, Burkhard Steuernagel, Götz Hensel, Jochen Kumlehn, Benjamin Kilian, Nils Stein, Peter Gould, Anthony Hall, and Thorsten Schnurbusch [37]
Poster 28. The pleiotropic effects of the master regulator Q and its homoeologous loci in polyploid wheat, Zengcui Zhang, Harry Belcram, Piotr Gornicki, Mathieu Charles, Jérémy Just, Cécile Huneau, Ghislaine Magdelenat, Arnaud Couloux, Sylvie Samain, Jack B. Rasmussen, Valérie Barbe, Boulos Chalhoub, Bikram S. Gill, and Justin D. Faris [37-38]
Poster 29. Molecular mapping of the brittle rachis (Br-A1) gene in Triticum timopheevii, Nidhi Rawat, Bhanu Kalia, Sunish Sehgal, Wanlong Li, and Bikram S. Gill [38]
Poster 30. Metabolic, physiological, and molecular characterization of cuticular variation in wheat, Zhengzhi Zhang and Wanlong Li [38-39]
Poster 31. Difference in vernalization duration requirement in U.S. soft winter wheat is associated with variation in VRN1 genes, Mohammed Guedira, Peter Maloney, Paul Murphy, David Marshall, Jerry Johnson, Steve Harrison, and Gina Brown-Guedira [39]
Poster 32. Development of high throughput KASPar assays for the grain color loci in wheat, K. Neelam, Vasu Kuraparthy, Mike Pumphrey, and Gina Brown-Guedira [39-40]
Poster 33. Quantitative trait loci mapping of transgressive agronomic and quality traits in an elite by elite wheat recombinant inbred line population, Mohamed Mergoum, Vibin Harilal, Senay Simsek, Mohammed S. Alamri, Shahryar Kianian, Elias Elias, Ajay Kumar, and Filippo M. Bassi [40]
Poster 34. A major QTL for gluten strength in eurum wheat (Triticum turgidum L. var. durum), Ajay Kumar, Elias M. Elias, Farhad Ghavami, Xin Xu, Shalu Jain, Frank A. Manthey, Mohamed Mergoum, Mohammed S. Alamri, Penny M.A. Kianian, and Shahryar F. Kianian [40-41]
Poster 35. Towards positional cloning of QYLD.IDW-3B, a major QTL for grain yield in durum wheat, Marta Graziani, Marco Maccaferri, Silvio Salvi, Etienne Paux, Catherine Feuillet, Maria C. Sanguineti, Andrea Massi, and Roberto Tuberosa [41]
Poster 36. Association studies of Ppo-A1 and Ppo-D1 genes and polyphenol oxidase activity using an Argentinean hexaploid wheat panel, E. Chialvo, N. Yerkovich, E. Spagnolo, B. Conde, L. Lombardo, M. Helguera, and L. Vanzetti [41-42]
Poster 37. Characterization of the effect of single and double GPC-A1 and GPC-D1 mutations in hexaploid wheat, Assaf Distelfeld, Raz Avni, Stephen Pearce, Yan Jun, Cristobal Uauy, Tzion Fahima, and Jorge Dubcovsky [42]
Poster 38. Development of Thinopyrum distichum-based, hexaploid tritipyrums, Francois Marais [42]
Poster 39. Mapping QTL related to drought tolerance in durum wheat (Triticum turgidum L. subsp. durum), L. Zarei, E. Farshadfar, K. Cheghamirza, F. Desiderio, L. Cattivelli, and G. Valè [43]
Poster 40. Expression analysis of genes involved in gibberellin biosynthesis under drought stress in wild emmer wheat, Tamar Krugman, Abraham Korol, and Tzion Fahima [43]
Poster 41. Transcript profiling identifies novel transcripts with unknown functions as a primary response components to dehydration stress in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) ,Bharti Garg, Swati Puranik, Shreelekha Mishra, Bhumi Nath Tripathi, and Manoj Prasad [44]
Poster 42. Association mapping of Russian wheat aphid resistance in barley as a method to identify diversity in the National Small Grains Collection, Lynn S. Dahleen, Phil Bregitzer, Dolores Mornhinweg, and Eric W. Jackson [44]
Poster 43. High-density mapping of a Russian wheat aphid resistance gene: chromosome survey sequences in use, Helena Stankova, Miroslav Valarik, Nora Lapitan, Paul Berkman, David Edwards, Ming-Cheng Luo, Jan Safar, Nils Stein, Jaroslav Dolezel, and Hana Simkova [45]
Poster 44. Towards fine mapping and cloning of the Hessian fly resistance gene, H13, Anupama Joshi, Sunish K. Sehgal, Gaganpreet Kaur, Jeffery J. Stuart, Xuming Liu, Ming-Shun Chen, and Bikram S. Gill [45-46]
Poster 45. Towards map-based cloning of Hessian fly-resistance gene H26 derived from Aegilops tauschii, Guotai Yu, Xiwen Cai, Marion O. Harris, Ming-Cheng Luo, Yongqiang Gu, and Steven S. Xu [46]
Poster 46. Introgression of crown rot resistance from hexaploid wheats into durum wheats, Anke Martin, Steven Simpfendorfer, Friederike Eberhard, Ray A. Hare, and Mark W. Sutherland [46]
Poster 47. QTL analysis of Fusarium head blight resistance in two durum wheat backcross derived inbred line populations, Seyed Mostafa Pirseyedi, Farhad Ghavami, Ajay Kumar Gupta, Elias Elias, Shaukat Ali, and Shahryar Kianian [47]
Poster 48. Use of generation acceleration to enhance the transfer of Fusarium head blight resistance into hard red winter wheat, Davey Cookman and Francois Marais [47]
Poster 49. QTL mapping of adult-plant resistance to Stagonospora nodorum leaf blotch in bread wheat line ‘Shanghai-3/Catbird’, Qiongxian Lu, Åsmund Bjørnstad, and Morten Lillemo [48]
Poster 50. Identification and genomic mapping of three new Stagonospora nodorum blotch susceptibility genes in wheat, Justin D. Faris, Gongjun Shi, Yuanyuan Gao, Chenggen Chu, Steven S. Xu, and Timothy L. Friesen [48]
Poster 51. Genomic analysis and fine-mapping of two homoeologous wheat genes conferring susceptibility to Stagonospora nodorum blotch, Zengcui Zhang, Gongjun Shi, Timothy L. Friesen, Steven S. Xu, Ming-Cheng Luo, Jan Dvorak, Jack B. Rasmussen, and Justin D. Faris [49]
Poster 52. Characterization of natural variation in the Tsn1 gene in Aegilops speltoides, Gongjun Shi, Zengcui Zhang, Zhaohui Liu, Timothy L. Friesen, and Justin D. Faris [49]
Poster 53. Unraveling the complexity of the net form net blotch resistance locus on barley chromosome 6H, Jon Richards, Tim Friesen, Zhaohui Liu, and Robert Brueggeman [50]
Poster 54. Searching via association mapping for novel sources of resistance to Ug99 and other Ethiopian stem rust races in durum wheat, Tesfaye D. Letta, Marco Maccaferri, Ayele Badebo, Karim Ammar, Maria C. Sanguineti, Silvio Salvi, Jose Crossa, and Roberto Tuberosa [50]
Poster 55. Construction of low-coverage, non-gridded BAC libraries for isolation of a genomic region involved in resistance to the stem rust in Sinvalocho wheat variety, William Marande, Sonia Vautrin, Arnaud Bellec, Genséric Beydon, Elisa Prat, Maria-Fernanda Pergolesi, Maria-José Dieguez, and Hélène Bergès [51]
Poster 56. Simultaneous transfer, genomic localization and introgression of genes for resistance to stem rust race Ug99 from the wheat D-genome progenitor species, Aegilops tauschii, to cultivated wheat, Triticum aestivum, Eric Olson, Jesse Poland, Robert L. Bowden, Bernd Friebe, and Bikram S. Gill [51]
Poster 57. Stem rust resistance in Jagger winter wheat, M.K. Turner, Y. Jin, and J.A. Anderson [52]
Poster 58. Identification and mapping of genes expressing and suppressing resistance to stripe rust in synthetic hexaploid wheat, Bhanu Kalia, Robert L. Bowden, Duane L. Wilson, and Bikram S. Gill [52]
Poster 59. Haplotype analysis of the leaf stripe resistance locus Rdg2a in different barley genotypes, C. Biselli, S. Urso, N. Stein, L. Cattivelli, and G. Valè [53]
Poster 60. Identification of a novel major leaf rust resistance QTL in the Swiss winter wheat cultivar Forno, J. Singla, S.G. Krattinger, T. Wicker, and B. Keller [53-54]
Poster 61. Fine mapping of the leaf rust resistance Lr14 locus in durum wheat, Irma Terracciano, Marco Maccaferri, Filippo Bassi, Paola Mantovani, Maria C. Sanguineti, Silvio Salvi , Hana Simkova, Andrea Massi, and Roberto Tuberosa [54]
Poster 62. Marker development for the wheat leaf rust resistance gene Lr16 using a comparative genomic approach, Mulualem T. Kassa, Curt A. McCartney, Frank You, Brent McCallum, Colin Hiebert, and Mark Jordan [54]
Poster 63. A genomic study of homoeologous recombinants of the Lr19 (T4) translocation in wheat, Mohamed Somo, Xiwen Cai, and Francois Marais [55]
Poster 64. Enhancement of Lr34 function by its over-expression in transgenic wheat, Tilin Fang, Brett F. Carver, Robert M. Hunger, and Liuling Yan [55]
Poster 65. Identification and mapping of a new leaf rust resistance gene derived from Triticum turgidum var. dicoccum, F. Desiderio, F. Como, A.M. Mastrangelo, D. Rubiales, M. Pasquini, R. Simeone, A. Blanco, L. Cattivelli, and G. Valé [56]
Poster 66. Utility of EMS mutants in rust resistance studies and map-based cloning in wheat, Adrian L. Cabra, Curt McCartney, Colin Hiebert, Mark Jordan, and Brent McCallum [56]
Poster 67. Gene expression differences in wheat induced by six Puccinia triticina races, John Fellers, Kerri Neugebauer, Myron Bruce, Jarret Glasscock, and Jim Kolmer [57]
Poster 68. Functional analysis and localization of SnTox1, a necrotrophic effector produced by the wheat pathogen Stagonospora nodorum, Zhaohui Liu, Timothy L. Friesen, and Justin D. Faris [57]
Poster 69. Dissecting the cytoplasmic component of plant-pathogen interaction pathways, Ryan Burciaga, Steven Meinhardt, Farhad Ghavami, and Shahryar Kianian [57-58]
Poster 70. The function of scs, Rf, and vi for proper compatibility of durum wheat nucleus in alien cytoplasms, Ali Soltani, Shivcharan S. Maan, Farhad Ghavami, and Shahryar F. Kianian. [58]
Poster 71. Homoeoallelic relationship of two speciation genes involved in the evolution of allopolyploid wheat, Monika Michalak de Jimenez, Farhad Ghavami, Kiran Seth, Filippo M. Bassi, Münevver Dogramac?, Yong Qiang Gu, and Shahryar F. Kianian. [58-59]
Poster 72. Re-evolution of wheat mitochondria, Farhad Ghavami, Andrzej Noyszewski, Ryan Burciaga, Ali Soltani, Filippo M. Bassi, Monika Michalak de Jimenez, Steven Meinhardt, Yong Q. Gu, and Shahryar F. Kianian. [59]
Poster 73. Accelerated, mitochondrial genome evolution of a Triticum alloplasmic line, A.K. Noyszewski, L. Al-Nimer, F. Ghavami, Y.Q. Gu, N. Huo, A. Soltani, S. Meinhardt, and S.F. Kianian. [60]
Poster 74. Changes in gene expression of mitochondrial genes in alloplasmic wheat lines carrying restorer genes, Ali Soltani, Farhad Ghavami, Andrzej Noyszewski, Filippo M. Bassi, Anantharama Rishi, Steven Meinhardt, and Shahryar F. Kianian. [60]
Poster 75. Androgenic response of Nebraskan winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) varieties to isolated microspore culture for doubled haploid plant production, B.K. Das, M. Santra, A. Hazen, P.S. Baenziger, and D.K. Santra. [61]
Poster 76. Chromatin state affects the DNA breakage/repair mechanism in wheat, A. Kumar, F.M. Bassi, Muhammad J. Iqbal, E. Paux, O. Al-Azzam, M.M. de Jimenez, A.M. Denton, Y.Q. Gu, E. Huttner, A. Kilian, S. Kumar, A. Goyal, V. Tiwari, M. Dogramaci, H.S. Balyan, H.S. Dhaliwal, P.K. Gupta, G.S. Randhawa, C. Feuillet, W.P. Pawlowski, and S.F. Kianian. [61-62]
Poster 77. Molecular characterization and protein-DNA interaction analysis of a WRKY transcription factor in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) showing differential spatiotemporal expression during leaf-rust pathogenesis, Dhananjay Kumar, Anjali Kapoor, Kunal Mukhopadhyay, and Manish Kumar. [62]
Poster 78. Transferring maize transposable elements to bread wheat through ‘wheat x maize’ crossing, Ragupathi Nagarajan, Ganna Kondratiuk, Gurmukh S. Johal, and Kulvinder Gill. [62-63]
Poster 79. The wheat meiotic cohesin gene TtRec8 and its role in haploidy-dependent, unreductional meiotic cell division, Guojia Ma, Wun S. Chao, Liwang Liu, Yong Qiang Gu, Steven S. Xu, and Xiwen Cai. [63]