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Tuesday, August 11, 2009
International PVY Symposium
2009 PAA Symposium
Speakers from Canada, China, Poland and United States of America will discuss Potato Virus Y topics of interest to an international audience. This half-day symposium will include presentations on PVY nomenclature, recombinant isolate research, strain diversity in North America and Asia, breeding for PVY resistance, resistance through transgenic manipulation and seed certification schemes to control PVY.
Symposium presentation titles and speakers:
PVY: an old enemy and a continuing challenge
James M. Crosslin, USDA-ARS, 24106 North Bunn Road, Prosser, WA 99350, USA
Historical aspects of the Potato virus Y nomenclature
Rudra P. Singh, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 850 Lincoln Road, Fredericton, New Brunswick E3B 4Z7, Canada
Recent research progresses on Potato virus Y in Canada
Xianzhou Nie, Potato Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, P.O. Box 20280, 850 Lincoln Road, Fredericton, New Brunswick E3B 4Z7, Canada
The seed potato inspection and virus research in China
Yanju Bai, Supervision and Testing Center for Virus-free Seed Potatoes Quality of Ministry of Agriculture, 368 Xuefu Road Nangang District, Harbin, P. R. China
Sequencing the North American collection of Potato virus Y isolates: applications to identification of disease determinants and strain differentiation
Alexander V. Karasev, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho 83844-2339, USA
Sources and effectiveness of PVY resistance in IHAR's breeding research
Ewa Zimnoch-Guzowska, Plant Breeding and Acclimatization Institute (IHAR), 05-831 Mlochów, Platanowa 19, Poland
Overexpression of pepper eIF4E allele pvr12 confers broad spectrum resistance to Potato virus Y in potato
Kari W. Perez, Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA
Controlling PVY in seed: what works and what doesn't
Rob D. Davidson, San Luis Valley Research Center, Colorado State University, Center, Colorado 81125, USA
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