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| Day 1 : February 17, 2011 |
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Presentation |
08:00 - 08:30
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Registration |
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| 08:50 - 09:05 |
Opening remarks by Mr. Simon Groot, Chairman of East-West Seed |
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| 09:05 - 09:15 |
Introduction and organizational remarks by Dr. Darush Struss, Biotechnology Research Manager, East West Seed |
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| 09:15 - 10:00 |
Keynote address: Dr. Simon Jan De Hoop, Vice President R&D, East West Seed
Topic: Solanaceous Vegetable Crop Breeding Developments in Southeast and South Asia |
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| 10:00 - 10:15 |
Coffee break |
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Session I: Past and future breeding developments in the tropics
Chair, Simon Jan De Hoop ; Co-chair, Peter Hanson |
| 10:15 - 10:45 |
Breeding hybrid vegetables in Africa and for the African market: case of tomato, African eggplant and chinense pepper
Invited speaker, Dr. Eugene Agbicodo, Rijk Zwaan Afrisem Ltd. |
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| 10:45 - 11:15 |
Progress toward development of bacterial wilt and begomovirus-resistant tomato lines at AVRDC – The World Vegetable Center
Invited speaker, Dr. Peter Hanson, AVRDC-The World Vegetable Center |
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| 11:15 - 11.45 |
Challenges and opportunities in improving pest-resistance of vegetable crops in Asia through biotechnology
Invited speaker, Dr. Desiree M. Hautea, University of the Philippines Los Baños |
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| 11:45 - 13:00 |
Lunch break |
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| 12:30 - 13:00 |
Poster session |
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Session II: Tomato breeding; virus and insect resistance
Chair, J. W. Scott; Co-chair, Worawan Chaleeprom |
| 13:30 - 14:15 |
Keynote address: Dr. Majid Foolad, Department of Horticulture and The Inter-college Graduate Degree Programs in Genetics and Plant Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802
Topic : Genetics and Breeding of Early Blight and Late Blight Resistance and Fruit Lycopene Content in Tomato |
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| 14:15 - 14:45 |
Important virus diseases in tomato: Focusing on geminiviruses and tospoviruses
Invited speaker, Dr. Orawan Chatchawankanphanich, National Science and Technology Development Agency, Thailand |
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| 14:45 - 15:15 |
Pedigree based mapping of quantitative trait loci for resistance to Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Virus-Thailand Isolate (TYLCTHV-[2]) from a wild species introgression, Solanum habrochaites ‘L06112’ Clone No.1: Ornubol Chomdej, Kasetsart University, Thailand |
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| 15:15 - 15:30 |
Coffee break |
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Session II (continue): Tomato breeding; virus and insect resistance
Chair, Peter Hanson; Co-chair, Desiree Hautea |
| 15:30 - 16:00 |
Wild tomato introgressions that confer resistance to begomoviruses in Guatemala
Invited speaker, Dr. Douglas Maxwell, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA |
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| 16:00 - 16:30 |
Whitefly Resistance in Solanum
Invited speaker, Dr. Ben Vosman, WUR Plant Breeding, Wageningen, Netherland |
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| 16:30 - 17:00 |
Rapid pyramiding major resistance genes into parental lines in tomato hybrid breeding employing marker-assisted backcrossing
Invited speaker, Dr. Jinguo Hu, USDA-Agricultural Research Service, USA |
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| Social Dinner : February 17, 2011 |
| 18:00 - 18:10 |
Welcome and opening Remarks by Mr. Joost Pekelharing, President of East West Seed |
| 18.10 - 18.20 |
NSTDA presentation/speech |
| 18.20 - 19.30 |
Dinner |
| 19.50 - 20.00 |
CMU – scientist presentation/speech |
| 20.00 - 20.10 |
CMU – agricultural presentation/speech |
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| Day 2 : February 18, 2011 |
Session III: “New tools”
Chair, Majid Foolad; Co - chair, Orarat Monkolporn |
| 08:30 - 09:15 |
Keynote address : Dr. John W. Scott, Gulf Coast Research & Education Center, University of Florida, IFAS, USA
Topic : Bacterial diseases; bane of the tomato breeder |
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| 09:15 - 09:45 |
Plant Molecular Breeding Based on NGS : Gengyun Zhang, BGI - SZ, China |
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| 09:45 - 10:15 |
Application of new genomic and bioinformatics tools for plant breeders
Invited speaker, Dr. Annemiek Jungerius, Genetwister Technologies, The Netherland |
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| 10:15 - 10:30 |
Coffee Break |
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| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Genome sequence and analysis of the tuber crop potato
Invited speaker, Dr. Sanwen Huang, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science |
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Session IV: Bacterial wilt resistance
Chair, Majid Foolad; Co - chair, Orarat Monkolporn |
| 11:00 - 11:30 |
Effect of bacterial wilt resistance level on tomato yield in Guatemala
Invited speaker, Dr. Luis Mejia, Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala |
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| 11:30 - 12:00 |
Population structure and association mapping of bacterial wilt resistance in tomato
Nattaya Srisawad, Kasetsart University, Thailand |
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| 12:00 - 13:15 |
Lunch break |
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| 12:30 - 14:00 |
Poster session |
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Session V: Pepper breeding
Chair, Douglas Maxwell; Co - chair, Orawan Chatchawankanphanich
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| 14:00 - 14:30 |
Development and application of genomic tools in pepper
Invited speaker, Dr. Allen Van Deynze, University of California Davis, USA |
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| 14:30 - 15:00 |
Differential fruit maturity plays an important role in chili anthracnose resistance
Invited speaker, Dr. Orarat Mongkolporn, Kasetsart University, Thailand |
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| 15:00 - 15:30 |
Introgression of anthracnose resistance to commercial capsicum via interspecific hybridization and backcross breeding
Invited speaker, Dr. Chalermsri Nontaswatsri, Maejo University, Thailand |
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| 15:30 - 15:45 |
Coffee break |
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| 15:45 - 16:15 |
Differential gene expressions in mature green and ripe fruit relating to anthracnose resistance in Capsicum baccatum PBC80:
Patiporn Temiyakul , Kasetsart University, Thailand |
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| 16:15 - 16:45 |
Cytoplasmic Male Sterile, combining abilities and Sterility Maintainer Cultivars of Capsicum annuum L.
Invited speaker, Dr. Maneechat Nikornpun, Chiang Mai University, Thailand |
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Session VI: Eggplant research and breeding
Chair, Luis Mejia; Co - chair, Chalermsri Nontaswatsri |
| 16:45 - 17:15 |
Characterization of polyphenoloxidase from Thai Solanum melogena
Invited speaker, Dr. Usawadee Chanasut, Chiang Mai University, Thailand |
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| 17:15 - 17:45 |
Pollen germination of interspecific hybrids between eggplant (Solanum melongena L) and wild species Solanum tovum SW.
Jutamas Kumchai , National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Taiwan R.O.C |
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| 17:45 - 18:00 |
Closing Remarks Darush Struss |
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| Last update 24 February 2011 |
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