Breeders need to proactively explore allied fields that can lead to new tools, technologies, resources, and approaches for plant improvement. Pushing the Boundaries of Plant Improvement is a seminar series that features speakers on topics that can help move plant breeding to the next frontier.
This seminar series is generously sponsored by Jim Luby and Emily Hoover in honor of Second Harvest Heartland, the Upper Midwest's largest hunger-relief organization.
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Below are the seminar speakers and titles in this series (click on each seminar title for a YouTube link):
| Speaker |
Title |
| Annor, George |
Grain Biopolymer Laboratory: Cereal technology and chemistry research focus |
| Brummer, Charlie |
The thremmatologist, or there and back again |
| Busta, Luke |
A co-opted steroid synthesis gene in sorghum but not maize, is associated with a divergence in leaf wax chemistry |
| Cavender-Bares, Jeannine |
Linking plant spectra to functional, genetic & phylogenetic diversity in natural and experimental systems |
| David, Andrew |
Forest tree breeding - An overview |
| Greenham, Kathleen |
Time-based transcriptional networks reveal signature expression patterns for crop improvement |
| Isler, Volkan |
Robotic sensing for semantic mapping of farms and wildlife |
| Pardey, Phil and Kevin Silverstein |
GEMS Informatics: Forging the Future of Agri-Food Data Analytics at UMN and Beyond |
| Shannon, Laura |
Sequencing, math, and avoidance: A few approaches to autotetraploid breeding |
| van der Knapp, Esther |
Harnessing crop improvement traits from semi-domesticated tomato accessions |
| Warner, Maggie |
Hybridization, heterosis, and the maize microbiome |
