SESSION 5:  GENETICS

Moderator:  Heathcliffe Riday, US Dairy Forage Research Center, Madison, WI

1:00

The Medicago truncatula genome sequencing project.  Steven Cannon, Nevin Young, Bruce Roe, Christopher Town, Ernie Retzel, Douglas Cook, Dong-Jin Kim, Frederic Deballe, Francis Quetier, Giles Oldroyd, and Jane Rogers

1:20

Construction of linkage map in alfalfa and assessment of colinearity with Medicago truncatula.  Possible uses in QTL detection and gene mapping.  B. Julier, S. Flajoulot, T. Huguet, S. Santoni, Ph. Barre, C. Huyghe   

1:40

White clover seed production:  Unlocking the genetics potential.  
B. Barrett, M. Sledge, J. Bouton, D. Woodfield

2:00

Construction of a SSR and RFLP linkage map and QTL analysis in red clover.  S. Isobe, S. Sato, I. Klimenko, E. Asamizu, N.N. Kozlov, K. Okumura, S. Tabata

2:20

BREAK

2:40

Transcript profiling in Medicago truncatula responding to infection by Erysiphe pisi and Colletotrichum trifolii.  D. Samac, D. Foster-Hartnett, S. Peñuela, D. Danesh, K. VandenBosch

3:00

Pharmaceuticals and nutriceuticals produced in alfalfa. P. Bilodeau

3:20

Regulatory assessment of Roundup Ready alfalfa.  
S. Fitzpatrick, G. Rogan

3:40

Polyphenol oxidase and o-diphenols inhibit post-harvest proteolysis in red clover and alfalfa.  M. Sullivan, R. D. Hatfield, R. E. Muck

4:00

The gene encoding Na+/H+ antiporter from alfalfa.  
Q. Yang, M.. Wu, P. Wang