   2016 Joint Conference
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| Tuesday, July 12 | |
| 6:00 | "Wisconsin Tailgate" Dinner & Poster Session - click to view posters and abstracts |
| Wednesday, July 13 | |
| Session I: Regional Presentations (Moderator: Deborah Samac) | |
| 8:00 | Welcome |
| Dean Kathryn VandenBosch, University of Wisconsin | |
| 8:10 | USDA-ARS Dairy Forage Research Center Update || Presentation |
| Mark Boggess, U.S. Dairy Forage Research Center | |
| 8:30 | Forage Legumes in Wisconsin: Some History and Current Status || Presentation |
| Kenneth Albrecht, University of Wisconsin | |
| 8:50 | Use and Breeding of Forage Grasses in North Central USA || Presentation |
| Michael Casler, U.S. Dairy Forage Research Center | |
| 9:10 | NAFA Update |
| Beth Nelson, National Alfalfa & Forage Alliance | |
| 9:30 | Alfalfa Seed & Alfalfa Forage Systems Research Program (AFRP) || Presentation |
| Jeffrey Steiner, National Institute of Food and Agriculture | |
| 9:45 | Break and Posters |
| Session II: Research Reports (Moderator: Deborah Samac) | |
| 10:15 | A Multi-omic Atlas of the Model Legume Medicago truncatula || Presentation |
| Jean-Michel Ane, University of Wisconsin | |
| 10:35 | Assessing the Impact of Changing Diets on the Gut Microbial Community of Developing Dairy Calves || Presentation |
| Garret Suen, University of Wisconsin | |
| 10:55 | Microbial Impacts on Manure Management Strategies || Presentation |
| Rebecca Larson, University of Wisconsin | |
| 11:15 | AFRP Lightning Presentations (Moderator: Jeffrey Steiner) |
| Forage
Quality Improvement in Reduced-Lignin Alfalfa Monoculture and Alfalfa-Grass
Binary Mixtures || Presentation |
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| Debbie Cherney, Cornell University | |
| Using
a New In Vitro Method and Fiber Model (TTNDFD) to Improve Estimates
of Digestibility of Alfalfa for Dairy Cattle || Presentation |
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| David Combs, University of Wisconsin | |
| Re-Establishing IPM Recommendations for Aphids in Alfalfa Hay in the Low Desert || Presentation | |
| Ayman Mostafa, University of Arizona | |
| The Effect of Hay Rake Type on Ash Content of Alfalfa Hay || Presentation | |
| Abby Neu, University of Minnesota | |
| Yield Improvement and Fall Dormancy Characterization in Alfalfa || Presentation | |
| Scott Newell, University of California | |
| Subsurface
Drip Irrigation, Deficit Irrigation Strategies, and Improved Varieties
to Improve Alfalfa Water Use Efficiency Under Drought Conditions || Presentation |
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| Daniel Putnam, University of California | |
| Root Traits to Enhance Nutrient and Water Use in Alfalfa || Presentation | |
| Deborah Samac, USDA-ARS | |
| Potato Leafhopper Threshold Revised for Alfalfa Host Resistance and Alfalfa Grass Mixtures || Presentation |
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| Mark Sulc, The Ohio State University | |
| Developing
Molecular Markers for Enhancing Resistance to Drought and High Salinity in Alfalfa || Presentation |
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| Long-Xi Yu, USDA-ARS | |
| 12:00 | Awards Luncheon |
| Session III: Molecular Breeding and Genetics (Moderator: Raghuveer Sripathi) | |
| 1:30 | Predicted Efficiency of Indirect Selection to Increase Tall Fescue Forage Mass in a Grass-Alfalfa Mixture (Grass) || Presentation |
| Blair Waldron, USDA-ARS | |
| 1:50 | Heterotic Effects and Genetic Distance for the Prediction of Agronomic Performance in Crossing Divergent Alfalfa Populations (Alfalfa) || Presentation |
| Dragan Milic, Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops | |
| 2:10 | Phenotypic Traits Expressed in White Clover Cold Tolerant Genotypes Selected from Populations Naturalized in the Patagonia Region of South America (Clover) || Presentation |
| Luis Inostroza, Instituto de Investigaciones Agropecuarias | |
| 2:30 | Rate of Forage Yield Breeding Gains in a Red Clover Breeding Program (Clover) || Presentation |
| Heathcliffe Riday,U.S. Dairy Forage Research Center | |
| 2:50 | Evaluating the Theory of General Adaptation in Red Clover (Clover) || Summary |
| Yousef Papadopoulos, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada | |
| 3:10 | Genome-Wide Dynamic Spatial Gene Expression and Alternative Polyadenylation in Red Clover (Clover) |
| Randy Dinkins, USDA-ARS | |
| 3:30 | Genome Sequence of Medicago sativa: Cultivated Alfalfa at the Diploid Level (CADL) (Alfalfa || Presentation |
| Maria Monteros, The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation | |
| 3:35 | Poster Session |
| 4:35 | Business Meeting |
| Thursday, July 14 | |
| Session IV: Management and Physiology (Moderator: William Osterholz) | |
| 8:00 | Integrated Remote Sensing Tools for Timely Predictions of Alfalfa Nutritive Value (Alfalfa) || Presentation |
| Reagan Noland, University of Minnesota | |
| 8:20 | Seeding Year Yield and Forage Nutritive Value of Reduced Lignin and Conventional Alfalfa Varieties (Alfalfa) || Presentation |
| Amanda Grev, University of Minnesota | |
| 8:40 | Alfalfa Varieties Differ Markedly in Seedling Survival When Interseeded into Corn and Treated with Prohexadione-Calcium (Alfalfa) || Presentation |
| John Grabber, U.S. Dairy Forage Research Center | |
| 9:00 | Effect of Genotype-by-Environmant Interaction on Cool-Season Grass Water-Soluble Carbohydrate Concentrations (Grass) || Presentation |
| Joseph Robins, USDA-ARS | |
| 9:20 | Lightning Presentations | Temperate Forage Legume Germplasm of the USDA National Plant Germplasm System || Presentation |
| Brian Irish, USDA-ARS | |
| Bacterial and Fungal Microbiome Analysis of Alfalfa Rhizosphere Soils || Presentation | |
| Christian Klatt, USDA-ARS | |
| Resilience, Stability, and Productivity of Alfalfa Cultivars in Wisconsin || Presentation | |
| Valentin Picasso, University of Wisconsin | |
| Linking Pollinator Behavior to Selfing Rate for Three Distinct Pollinators of Alfalfa || Presentation | |
| Emmanuel Santa-Martinez, University of Wisconsin | |
| 9:40 | Break and Posters |
| Session V: Stress Tolerance and Pollinators (Moderator: Emmanuel Santa-Martinez) | |
| 10:00 | Contrasting the Foraging Behavior of Three Bee Species in Alfalfa to Predict Their Impact on Selfing Rate and Gene Flow Risk (Alfalfa) || Presentation |
| Johanne Brunet, USDA-ARS | |
| 10:20 | Alfalfa Research in Molecular Plant Pathology Laboratory, Beltsville Agricultural Research Center (Alfalfa) || Presentation |
| Lev Nemchinov, USDA-ARS | |
| 10:40 | Adaptive Responses of Medicago truncatula and Medicago sativa to Low Phosphorus Availability (Alfalfa) |
| A. Brice Cazenave, The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation | |
| 11:00 | Breeding Resistance to New Races of Anthracnose (Alfalfa) || Presentation |
| Charles Rodgers, Forage Genetics International | |
| 12:30 | Box Lunch, Bus Tour & Picnic |
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