INVITATION TO THE 47th ANNUAL ILLINOIS CORN BREEDERS' SCHOOL
March 7-8, 2011
I-Hotel and Conference Center, Champaign, Illinois
Dear Colleague,
On behalf of the Illinois Maize Breeding and Genetics Laboratory, I'd like
to extend to you an invitation to attend the 47th Annual Illinois Corn
Breeders' School, March 7-8, 2011, at the I-Hotel and Conference Center,
1900 South First Street, Champaign, Illinois. A link to connect you to
registration for the Corn Breeders' School and hotel accommodations is
provided below.
<http://www.conferences.illinois.edu/cornbreeders>
www.conferences.illinois.edu/cornbreeders
To register for the School, click on 'Registration' on the panel to the
left. For lodging at the I-Hotel, click on 'Lodging'. The attendee code for
online booking of lodging is ABRD.
The 2011 School will address challenges in boosting corn productivity. As
outlined in the accompanying agenda, the lineup of speakers will present
talks covering the evolutionary and botanical bases of productivity,
genetics of response to increased plant population, influence of nitrogen on
interplant competition, nitrogen use efficiency, prediction of optimum
planting rates, agronomic management for maximum yields, and new
technological and scientific advances for application to corn breeding, and
hybrid vigor.
Yours truly,
G. Richard Johnson, Program Chairman, and members of the Illinois Maize
Breeding and Genetics Lab Steering Committee: Fred Below, Martin Bohn,
Stephen Moose, Rita Mumm, and Jerald Pataky
Program: 47th Annual Illinois Corn Breeders School
Monday, March 7
8:15a Dr. Richard Johnson - University of Illinois - Welcome and
Introductory Remarks.
8:30a Dr. Paula McSteen - University of Missouri Columbia - Inflorescence
Development: The
Basis of Maize Productivity.
9:15a Dr. Patrick Brown - University of Illinois - Inflorescence QTL,
Canalization, and Selectable
Cryptic Variation.
10:00a Break
10:30a Dr. Lauren McIntyre - University of Florida - Direct Mapping of
Response to Plant
Density.
11:15a Dr. Jode Edwards -USDA (ARS), Ames IA - Inheritance of Adaptation to
High Plant
Density in Iowa Stiff Stalk Synthetic.
12:00p Lunch
1:15p Dr. Chris Boomsma - Dow AgroSciences - Resource Availability and
Plant-to-Plant
Competition in Maize: Implications for 21st Century Maize
Genetic and Agronomic Improvement.
2:00p Dr. Marcus Jones - Monsanto - Prediction Models for Determination of
Optimum
Planting Rates.
2:45p Break
3:15p Dr. Larry Hendrickson - John Deere - Agronomic Management for
Optimizing Corn Yield.
4:00p Dr. Jay Boddu - University of Illinois - Genomic Approaches to
Improving Nitrogen Use
Efficiency.
4:45p Ms. Joana Novais - University of Illinois - High Throughput
Phenotyping of Roots.
5:30p Social Hour
6:30p Dinner
7:30p Dr. Elizabeth Kellogg University of Missouri St. Louis - Evolution
of the Grasses: The
Foundation of Crop Productivity.
Tuesday, March 8
8:00a Dr. Andrea Eveland - Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory - Expression
Profiling of
Inflorescence Development by Transcript Sequencing.
8:45a Dr. Richard Johnson - University of Illinois - Ear Shoot Meristem
Transcript Abundance
and Grain Yield.
9:30a Break
10:00a Dr. Mei Guo- Pioneer HiBred- Cell Number Control and Plant Organ
Size: Implications
for Crop Improvement and Heterosis.
10:45a Dr. Steve Goff - University of Arizona - Research into the Phenomenon
of Heterosis.
11:30a Adjourn
