Agronomy 600A Plant Breeding Seminar
Spring Semester, 2004
Department of Agronomy
Iowa State University

Date	Speaker	Title
January 15	K. Lamkey	Organizational Meeting with Graduate Students Majoring in Plant Breeding
January 22
January 29
February 5
February 12	Dr. Stephen Howell Director, PSI	Probing into the gene expression program during shoot development in Arabidopsis
February 19	Dr. Jean-Luc Jannink Agronomy, ISU	Understanding Variance Sources for Long-term Selection Using DNA Markers
February 26	Dr. E. Charlie Brummer Agronomy, ISU	Breeding for cropping systems
March 4	James Rouse* Agronomy, ISU	Parents, testers, and heterotic groups in maize breeding
March 11	Von Mark Cruz* Agronomy, ISU	Current knowledge of gene flow in plants and applied implications
March 18	Spring Break	No Seminar
March 25	Evelyn Ortiz-Perez* Agronomy, ISU	Breeding for resistance to early blight of tomato
April 1	Elizabeth Popowski* Agronomy, ISU	Heterosis and Yield in Hybrid Wheat
April 8	No Seminar	No Seminar
April 15	Dr. Peter A. Peterson Agronomy, ISU	DNA Changes in the Corn Field
April 22	Pedro Lopez* Agronomy, ISU	Molecular Approaches to Maize Domestication
April 29	Sheilah Oltmans* Agronomy, ISU	Plant pigments for color and nutrition in carrots [Daucus carota L.]
* seminar presented by ISU graduate student on topic unrelated to their graduate research. ** Speaker and Topic To Be Announced
Department of Agronomy Iowa State University Last Modified April 20, 2004 For more information contact Kendall Lamkey