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Seed Central features for Seed Central
member companies
The VegR&D Forum
An occasional meeting of the research managers of
vegetable seed companies with breeding activities
for the North American market.
PURPOSE
To enable discussion amongst research managers of
long-term, pre-competitive research topics of importance to the
North American vegetable seed industry, with invited
participation by other relevant specialists such as
university scientists, technology providers to the
seed industry, and members of the downstream ag &
food industries.
The VegR&D Forum is organized by Seed Central member
companies.
All vegetable seed companies with breeding
activities for the North American market are invited
to attend the Forum.
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Kent Bradford |
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Richard Michelmore |
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Phyllis Himmel |
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Anne Britt |
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Bryce Falk |
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Isabelle Henry |
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Neal Williams |
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Second Forum
The VegR&D Forum
(November 9 & 10, 2016)
Session 1
New research on seed vigor
Speaker: Kent Bradford, Professor of Plant Sciences
& Director, Seed
Biotechnology Center, UC Davis
Session 2
A
project to identify and pool information about newly
emerging disease strains and races (a
possible extension of the CPPSI activities)
Speakers:
- Phyllis Himmel, Director, Collaboration for Plant
Pathogen Strain identification
(CPPSI)
- Bryce Falk, Professor of Plant Pathology, UC Davis
Session 3
Using wild bees for the pollination of seed crops
Speaker: Neal Williams, Associate Professor of
Entomology, UC Davis
Session 4
New
techniques for plant breeding
Speakers:
- Richard Michelmore, Director of the UC Davis
Genome Center and Professor, UC Davis Department of
Plant Sciences, Department of Molecular and Cellular
Biology, and Department of Microbiology and
Immunology
- Anne Britt, Professor of Plant Biology, UC Davis
- Isabelle Henry, Associate Project Scientist, Luca
Comai Laboratory, Genome Center and Department of
Plant Biology, UC Davis
Video recordings of the
presentations
See
http://seedcentral.plantsciences.ucdavis.edu/veg-rd-forum-2016/
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Poster abstracts |
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Identifying the Genetic Determinants of
Pellicle Coloration in Walnut via
Metabolomics and RNAseq
Timothy S. Butterfield and Abhaya M.
Dandekar |
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Fruit ripening behaviour: Ethylene and the
Regulation of Sugar Metabolism
Macarena Farcuh, HoYoun Kim, Bosheng Li
and Eduardo Blumwald |
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An experiential learning-based public plant
breeding pipeline for organic cultivar
development: Student Collaborative Organic
Plant Breeding Education (SCOPE) at UC Davis
Randi Jiménez, Saarah Kuzay, Jorge Berny,
Stephanie Smolenski Zullo, Travis Parker,
Zachary Dashner, Nisha Marwaha, Mengyuan
Xiao, Jake Uretsky, Joshua Hegerty, Nicolas
Cobo, Allen Van Deynze, Dina St.Clair, Paul
Gepts, Antonia Palkovic, Carol Hillhouse,
Raoul Adamchak, Mark Van Horn, Jared Zystro,
and E. Charles Brummer |
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Rapid detection of preexisting internal
Leuconostoc spp. spoilage populations in
fresh-cut carrots during storage
Kellee H. Britt, Janneth Pinzon, and Trevor
V. Suslow |
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Development of a protoplast system for
non-transgenic, targeted genome editing in
S. tuberosum
Fossi M.M., Amundson K.R., Jinata S.N.,
Comai L. |
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Utilizing wild Capsicum annuum (chile
pepper) for breeding Beet curly top virus
resistance in cultivated hot peppers
Jimenez R.C., Chen L.F., Gilbertson R.L.,
Hill T.H., Van Deynze A.E. |
Tech Showcase
Held in
conjunction with the Forum, the Tech
Showcase featured cutting edge
technologies offered by Seed Central
member companies:
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First Forum
The VegR&D Forum
(April 2014)
At the
suggestion of its members and in consultation with
the American Seed Trade Association, Seed Central
agreed to organize the VegR&D Forum, a meeting of
the research managers of vegetable seed companies
with breeding activities for the North American
market.
The first Forum was organized in partnership with
the UC Davis College of Agricultural & Environmental
Sciences and was held on April 9 & 10, 2014 on the
UC Davis campus.
PURPOSE
To enable discussion amongst research managers of
long-term, pre-competitive research topics and
research-related policy issues of importance to the
North American vegetable seed industry, with invited
participation by other relevant specialists such as
university scientists, technology providers to the
seed industry, and members of the downstream ag &
food industries.
Session 1
Session 2
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How can vegetable seed companies work
together with the U.S. and State Governments
to address the critical future needs for
plant breeders, breeding assistants,
agricultural technicians, pathologist, etc.? |
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How can vegetable seed companies work
together with the U.S. and State Governments
to address the critical future needs for
plant breeders, breeding assistants,
agricultural technicians, pathologist, etc.?
Allen Van Deynze, UC Davis (substituting for William
Tracy, University of Wisconsin / NAPB
Advocacy Group) |
Session 3
Minutes
Survey
Posters
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Constitutive expression of eIF5A3 increases biomass
yield in an elite alfalfa cultivar
Rosa Figueroa-Balderas, Cecilia Chi-Ham, David
Tricoli, Jay Sandman, David Johnson, Jon Reich and
Alan B.
Bennett
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Genetic basis of maternal environment effects on
lettuce seed thermoinhibition and interactions with
photodormancy
Mohan Niroula, Fei-Yian Yoong and Kent J. Bradford
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Physiological, biochemical and molecular
characterization of a non-climacteric plum fruit
Ho-Youn Kim, Macarena Farcuh, Carlos H. Crisosto and
Eduardo Blumwald
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Population-based threshold models describe effects
of controlled deterioration on seed respiratory
patterns during germination
Pedro Bello, Margarita Barros and Kent J. Bradford
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Seed coating technologies employing a plant-based
green binder
Masoume Amirkhani, Morad Mortaz, Anil Netravali,
Alan Taylor
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The dry chain can maintain seed quality in humid
regions
Peetembar Dahal, Pedro Bello, Johan Van Asbrouck,
Keshavulu Kunusoth, Indra Raj Pandey, Luke
Colavito, Kent J,. Bradford
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Utilizing wild Capsicum annuum germplasm for
breeding Curtovirus resistance in cultivated
chile pepper
Randi Jimenez, Li-Fang Chen, Theresa Hill, Robert
Gilbertson and Allen Van Deynze
Poster abstracts
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Characterization of bud sport mutation in plum
fruit: physiological, biochemical and molecular
approaches
Ho-Youn Kim, Macarena Farcuh, Carlos
Crisosto and Eduardo Blumwald
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Constitutive expression of eIF5A3 increases biomass
yield in an elite alfalfa cultivar
Rosa
Figueroa-Balderas, Cecilia Chi-Ham, David Tricolim
Jay Sandman, David Johnson, Jon Reich and Alan B.
Bennett
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Deciphering resistance to
Phytophthora
capsici in pepper
William Rehrig, Theresa
Hill, Hamid Ashrafi and Allen Van Deynze
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Emergence of recombinant curtoviruses
involved in the curly top disease outbreak in the
Central Valley of California in 2013
Li-Fang
Chen and Robert L. Gilbertson
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Population-based threshold models
describe effects of controlled deterioration on seed
respiratory patterns during germination
Bello,
P.H.N., Barros, M., Bradford, K.J.
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Quantitative trait locus (QTL) mapping
of a high temperature germination locus in lettuce
Yoong, Fie-Yian et al.
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Seed
coating technologies employing a plant-based binder
Masoume Amirkhani, Morad Mortaz, Anil Netravali,
Alan Taylor
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Seed
systems – Improving seed quality
for smallholders
Kent Bradford, Peetembar
Dahal, Johan Van Asbrouck, Pedro Bello, Keshavulu
Kunusoth, Indra Raj Pandey, Luke Colavito, Jwala
Bajracharya, Ganesh Shivakoti, Daniel Karanja
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Susceptibility of lettuce seed
thermo-inhibition in changing environments and its
genetic cause + novel QTLs for seed’s weight, seed yield
and seed photo-dormancy
Mohan Miroula, Fei-Yian
Yoong and Kent Bradford
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Temperature-sensitive expression of
LsNCED4 encoding an ABA biosynthetic enzyme is required
for thermoinhibition of lettuce seeds
Heqiang
Huo, Heqiang Huo, Kent Bradford, Peetambar Dahal
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Utilizing wild
Capsicum annuum germplasm for breeding
Curtovirus resistance in cultivated chile pepper
Randi Jimenez,
Li-Fang Chen, Theresa Hill, Robert Gilbertson and
Allen Van Deynze
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