Proceedings

Joint Meeting of the

41st North American Alfalfa Improvement Conference
&
20th Trifolium Conference

Embassy Suites Dallas
Near the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, South

June 1-4, 2008

Trifolium Conference Session, Moderator: Yousef Papadopolous

• Research investment in "other" forage legumes
  P.R. Beuselinck, A.A. Boe, E.C. Brummer, N.C. Ehlke, J.A. Mosjidis, Y.A. Papadopolous, H. Riday, G.R. Smith, and M.J. Williams

• Response to selection under controlled environment versus natural selection in diverse regions across Canada
  Yousef A. Papadopoulos, R. Michaud,  A. Bertrand, B. Coulman, S. N. Acharya,  S. Bittman, H. Riday, D.Viands,  A. Boe, K. McRae and  Y. Castonguay

• Improvement of reseeding in crimson clover
  G. R. Smith, G. W. Evers and I. J. Pemberton

• Genetic variation within and among collections of falcata alfalfas
  Ivan W. Mott, Michael D. Peel and Arvid Boe

• Multiple hydroxycinnamoyl transferases from red clover differ in sequence, expression pattern, and enzymatic activity
  Michael Sullivan
  

• Perennial legume response to drought.
  Craig Sheaffer and Philippe Seguin

• Reproductive ecology of native legumes in the Northern Great Plains

Arvid Boe and Paul J. Johnson

• A cornucopia of diversity: U.S. germplasm accessions worthy of future research

  Stephanie L. Greene

  
  

  Symposium: Legumes and the Nitrogen Advantage, Moderator: Craig Sheaffer

• Are clovers ready for the nitrogen fertilizer crisis?
  Gerald W. Evers

• Earth, air, fire and water: Extending the queen’s realm

  Michael P. Russelle

  
  

  Posters:

  1.          Increasing alfalfa seed size by recurrent selection and by transfer from Medicago arborea

               Edwin T. Bingham

  2.         Genetic relationships of alfalfa cultivars based on simple sequence repeat (SSR) molecular markers

               Gary R. Bauchan, ZhangLian Xia, and Peter VanBerkum

  3.         Reducing Potato Leafhopper (PLH) impacts on alfalfa through PLH-resistant cultivars intercropped with perennial forage grass

  J. Hansen, D. Viands, J. K. Waldron, M. Hall, J. Losey, D. Johnson, J. Hanchar

  4.         Revealing genetic relationships and the scope of diversity among unimproved diploid alfalfa germplasm using SSR markers

               Muhammet Sakiroglu, Jeff Doyle, and E. Charles Brummer

  5.         Falcata alfalfa for intermountain Western U.S. grazing lands

               Michael D. Peel, Ivan W. Mott

  6.         On farm evaluation of an alfalfa cultivar with lower bloat potential

               D. Basigalup, A. Odorizzi, V. Arolfo, M. Correa Luna and J. Dupuy

  7.         Effect of glyphosate on foliar diseases in roundup ready alfalfa

               Dawn Foster-Hartnett and Deborah A. Samac

  8.         Alfalfa Bioenergy:Energy products and breeding strategies

  JoAnn F. S. Lamb, Hans-Joachim G. Jung, and Craig C. Sheaffer

  9.         Nematodes & drought impact on clover production in Florida

               Ken Quesenberry, Yoana Newman, David Wofford, and Ananta Acharya

  10.       QTL for water stress resistance and water use efficiency in alfalfa

  B. Julier, K. Bernard, M. Abdelguerfi-Laouar, Y. Semiani, O. Sfarni, S. Udupa, F. Gasmi, T. Huguet. 

  11.       Genetic Mapping of Factors Influencing Alfalfa Biomass Accumulation Under Drought-Stress .

  Lei E, Chris Meenach, Yuanhong Han, Chris Pierce, Joe Bouton, Maria J. Monteros, Mary Sledge, and Ian Ray.

  12.       QTL for flowering date in three mapping populations of Medicago truncatula

               J.B. Pierre, T. Huguet, P. Barre, Huyghe C., and B. Julier.

  13.       Effect of photoperiod of flowering date and aerial morphogenesis of eight Medicago truncatula lines

               B. Julier, J.B. Pierre, C. Huyghe.

  14.       Weak but significant diversity among alfalfa populations but only limited comparability for resulting structure between morphological and SSR markers

               Doris Herrmann, Sandrine Flajoulot, Joëlle Ronfort, Bernadette Julier

  15.       Genome-wide Identification of microsatellites in white clover (Trifolium repens L.) using FIASCO and SSRMiner

               Yan Zhang, Ji He, Patrick Zhao, Joe H. Bouton, Maria J. Monteros

  16.       QTL mapping of aluminum tolerance in tetraploid alfalfa

  Dong-Man Khu, Joseph H. Bouton, Rafael Reyno, E. Charlie Brummer, Maria J. Monteros

  17.       Restricting gametophytic self-incompatibility alleles in red clover (Trifolium pratense) to increase hybridity

               Heathcliffe Riday

  18       Lignin and fiber digestibility in caffeic acid 3-O-methyltransferase and caffeoyl CoA 3-O-methyltransferase downregulated alfalfa

  Heathcliffe Riday, Dave Whalen, Joe Bouton, Dave Mertens, Hans Jung, Fang Chen, Mark McCaslin, and Richard Dixon

  19       Sativa by falcata alfalfa hybrid variety trials

  Heathcliffe Riday, Steve Wagner, Don Viands, JoAnn Lamb, Dwain Meyer, Mark Smith, E. Charles Brummer, and Arvid Boe

  20.       Evaluation of forage quality traits in alfalfa

               Yuanhong Han, Joseph H. Bouton, Ian M. Ray and Maria J. Monteros

  21.       Screening alfalfa (Medicago sativa) cultivars for salt tolerance

  John Derek Scasta, Calvin Trostle, Hong Zhang, Dick Auld, Cary Green

  22.       Comparative gene expression profiles between heterotic and non-heterotic hybrids of tetraploid Medicago sativa

               Xuehui Li, Yanling Wei, Dan Nettleton, and E. Charles Brummer

  23.       Ascophyllum nodosum (L.) Le Jolis extract improves root nodulation in alfalfa

  Wajahatullah Khan, Ravishankar Palanisamy, Simon D. Hankins, Alan T. Critchley, Donald L. Smith, Yousef A. Papadopoulos, Balakrishan Prithiviraj.

  24.       Expression of eastern cottonwood (Populus deltoides) eukaryotic translation initiation factor-5A3 in alfalfa (Medicago sativa ssp. sativa L.)

  Jay M. Sandman, Jaime J. Jakes, David W. Johnson, Jonathan M. Reich, Tzann-Wei Wang, Zhongda Liu, and John E. Thompson

  
  Noble Foundation Medicago and Alfalfa Research Session, Moderator:  Joe Bouton

  Medicago genomics and functional genomics

  Mike Udvardi

  Translational genomics for engineered forage quality traits in alfalfa

  Rick Dixon

  Alfalfa and clover breeding and genomics.

  Maria Monteros

  Alfalfa cotton root rot research

  Carolyn Young

  Transposon tagged Medicago truncatula lines

  Million Tadege, Jiangqi Wen, Ji He, Haidi Tu, Younsig Kwak, Alexis Eschstruth, Anne, Cayrel,  Patrick X. Zhao, Pascal Ratet, and Kirankumar S. Mysore
  
  

  NAAIC Session, Moderator: David Johnson

  Health and future prospects of the alfalfa and forage seed Industries

  Jon Reich and Dave Miller

  Breeding lucerne for Australian environment through private public partnership

  Shoba Venkatanagappa

  In vivo digestibility of lignin downregulated alfalfa.

  David Mertens, Heathcliffe Riday, Pete Reisen, and Mark McCaslin

  A new concept in fall harvesting of alfalfa in the north.

  Dwain W. Meyer and Robert D. Nudell

  Analysis of dehydrin sequences from alfalfa populations recurrently selected for freezing tolerance.

  Y. Castonguay, W. Rémus-Borel, J. Cloutier, S. Laberge, A. Bertrand, and R. Michaud

  Affect of crop residue on colonization and survival of Phoma sclerotioides, the causal agent of brown root rot of alfalfa.

  Deborah A. Samac, Carly Matsumoto, Jennifer E. Larsen, Lorilie   Atkinson, Charla R. Hollingsworth, and Christopher D. Motteberg

  Selecting soils for alfalfa on the coastal plain of the southern USA.

  Vincent Haby and Allen Leonard

  Alfalfa benefits from Medicago truncatula: The RCT1 gene from M. truncatula confers broad-spectrum resistance to anthracnose in alfalfa.

  Shengming Yang , Muqiang Gao , Chenwu Xu , Jianchang Gao , Shweta Deshpande, Shaoping Lin , Bruce Roe, and Hongyan Zhu