Eastern Wheat Workers/Southern Small Grain Workers Conference

Eastern Wheat Workers/Southern Small Grain Workers Conference

May 9-12, 2005Bowling Green, KY

Agenda

Monday, May 9

1-5 pm: registration, check in, set up posters

3:00 Business Meeting – SSGW

- Election of officers and selection of site for next meeting

- Report of representative to National Oat Council

- Report of representative to NWIC

- Other Business

4:00 Update on ARS programs – Kay Simmons

4:15 Business Meeting – EWW

- Election of officers and selection of site for next meeting

- Report of representative to NWIC

- Other Business

5:00 Uniform Wheat Nurseries

5:15 Uniform Oat and Barley Nurseries

5: 30 Adjourn

6 pm: Reception

7 pm: Dinner, state reports

Tuesday, May 10

7:00 am: continental breakfast

8:00 Welcome:Dave Van Sanford

Mike Barrett, Chair, Dep. Of Agronomy

Session IPerennial Wheat: Moderator – Paul Murphy, NCSU

8:15 Stan Cox, Lee DeHaan – Back to the future: the greening of the great plains.

8:45 Weikai Yan – GGE Biplot Use in Small Grain Breeding (tentative)

Session IIMarker Use In Wheat: Moderator – Jose Costa, U. of MD

9:15 Robyn McLean – Marker use in Australian wheat breeding

9:45 Gina Brown-Guedira, USDA-ARS, Raleigh, NC – Genotyping center update.

10:15 Carl Griffey, Virginia Tech – Wheat CAPS Report

10:30 Coffee Break

Session IIIWheat Fungal Disease: Moderator – June Hancock, Syngenta

10:45 Dave Marshall, USDA-ARS, Raleigh, NC – Mildew update – prospects for a uniform mildew nursery, new genes, sources of resistance, useful markers, new germplasm, discussion

11:15 Marty Carson, USDA-ARS, St. Paul, MN – Cereal Disease Lab update; prospects for additional leaf rust screening and relevant gene postulation; prospects for a leaf rust nursery

11:45 Gene Milus, University of Arkansas – Stripe rust: stripe rust initiative, breeding for resistance, new races, sources of resistance, Avocet differentials

12:15 Discussion

12:30 Lunch

Session IV More Wheat Pests: Moderator – Greg Shaner, Purdue University

1:45 Herb Ohm – Research on Stagonospora nodorum blotch and Septoria tritici blotch at Purdue University. Herb Ohm, Steve Goodwin, Jim Uphaus, and Jill Breeden

2:15 Joe Anderson, USDA-ARS, W. Lafayette, IN - Virus update – BYDV, WSSMV – sources of resistance, useful markers, new germplasm

2:45 Hessian fly update – Sue Cambron,USDA-ARS, W. Lafayette, IN

3:15 Other insect pests: aphids, cereal leaf beetle, armyworm – Doug Johnson, University of Kentucky

3: 45 Discussion

4:00 – 5:30 Poster Session

6:00-7:00 Social hour

7:00 Dinner on your own

8:30 – 10:00 Nuts and Bolts session – Moderator, Steve Harrison, LSU: Graingenes 2 tutorial, breeding methods, new equipment, data analysis schemes, hands on GGE biplot, and so on.

Wednesday May 11

7:00 am: continental breakfast

Session IVWheat management: Moderator – Chad Lee, University of Kentucky

8:00 Lloyd Murdock/Jim Herbek – No Till Wheat

8:30 Randy Weisz – Nitrogen management

9:00 Discussion

9:30 Adjourn for field tour

10:00 Leave BG for Schochoh

10:40: Arrive Schochoh. Tour plots and have box lunch

12: 30 Leave for Opticrop plots

12:45 Arrive Opticrop plots, tour plots

1: 30 Leave for Wheat Tech plots

2:00 Arrive Wheat Tech plots, tour plots

2: 45 Leave for Siemer Mill

4:00 Arrive Siemer Mill, tour mill

5:00 Leave Siemer Mill

5:30 Arrive B&B, happy hour

6:30 Dinner

8:00 Board bus for BG

May 12

7 am: continental breakfast

Session VThe Business of Plant Breeding: Moderator – Anne McKendry

8:00 Update on release procedures, branding, PVP, patents - Dave Whitt, Virginia Crop Improvement

8:30 Real world business models for variety release: Panel discussion with Frank Spelbring (FFR), Ben Moreno-Sevilla (Westbred), Bryan Gerard (JGL) and Barton Fogelman (Agripro)

9:00 Royalties revisited: Can royalties support public breeding programs? Jerry Johnson, University of Georgia

Session VI: Grain quality and utilization: Moderator – Ben Edge

9:25 Wheat Quality Lab Update – Charles Gaines, USDA-ARS, Wooster, OH

9:45 Coffee Break

10:15 Kevin Hicks (USDA-ARS, Eastern Regional Research Center, PA)

Current Andpotential Use Of Small Grains Such As Barley In Ethanol Production

10:45 Joan Conway, USDA-ARS Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center

Potential Use Of Specialty Grains In Production Of Healthy Foods (tentative).

11: 15 Wrap up

Resolutions

Next Meeting Site

12:00 Adjourn

Post meeting plot tour: Syngenta, Agripro, UK plots (tentative)