Sorghum and Millet workshop at PAG31 January 14

Submitted by aolson on Mon, 12/04/2023 - 19:39

The Sorghum and Millet workshop will take place during next year’s Plant and Animal Genome Conference (PAG31 onJanuary 12-17, 2024) in San Diego, California on January 14th from 8:00 to 10:10 AM in the Pacific H-I conference room. The workshop is being organized by Dr. Yinghua Huang from the USDA-ARS. Speakers include:

  • Joe Louis, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE - “Multi-Omic Approaches to Decipher Sorghum Defense Against Sap-Feeding Aphids”

  • Zhanguo Xin, USDA-ARS, Lubbock, TX - “A Large Sequenced Mutant Library Provides Gene Leads for Breeding and Genome Editing”

  • Bo Sun, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China - “Ethylene-Responsive SbWRKY50 Suppresses Leaf Senescence By Inhibition of Chlorophyll Degradation in Sorghum”

  • Boris M. E. Alladassi, Iowa State University, Ames, IA - “Using UAV Imagery to Investigate the Dynamics of Plant Height Genetics across Development in Sorghum”

  • Nikee Shrestha, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, OK 

  • Tesfaye Mengiste, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN - “Exploring Nature's Diversity: Unraveling Mechanisms for Robust Fungal Resistant Sorghums”

For more information visit the workshop’s webpage.