Pleiotropic Effects of Flowering Time Genes and Impact on Adaptation and Speciation
January 21-23, 2013, Cologne, Germany
Session titles
| SESSION 1: | Comparative studies of flowering time genes across species, |
Chair: Maria Albani (MPIPZ, Cologne) |
| SESSION 2: | Flowering time genes and their role in crop evolution, |
Chair: Maria von Korff (MPIPZ, Cologne) |
| SESSION 3: | Pleiotropic effects of Arabidopsis flowering pathways/genes, |
Chair: Christian Jung (CAU Kiel) |
| SESSION 4: |
Flowering Time Genes and adaptation to different environments |
Chair: Dorothee Staiger (Bielefeld University) |
Keynote lectures
| Timo Hytonen | Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland: |
Regulation of flowering in Rosaceae -same genes in different context |
| James Cockram |
National Institute of Agricultural Botany, Cambridge, United Kingdom: | Evolution and domestication of barley flowering time genes |
| Robbie Waugh | James Hutton Institute, Dundee, United Kingdom: | Title tba |
| Maarten Koornneef |
Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany |
Arabidopsis natural variation: Epistasis of Flowering Time alleles reveals a new function for an old gene |
| Cynthia Weinig | Department of Botany, University of Wyoming | Characterizing the circadian clock in seasonal settings. |
Meeting Venue
Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Carl von Linné Weg 10, 50829 Köln, Germany