Sorghum and Millet workshop at PAG31 January 14

The Sorghum and Millet workshop will take place during next year’s Plant and Animal Genome Conference (PAG31 onJanuary 12-17, 2024) in San Diego, California on January 14th from 8:00 to 10:10 AM in the Pacific H-I conference room. The workshop is being organized by Dr. Yinghua Huang from the USDA-ARS. Speakers include:

• Joe Louis, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE – “Multi-Omic Approaches to Decipher Sorghum Defense Against Sap-Feeding Aphids”
• Zhanguo Xin, USDA-ARS, Lubbock, TX – “A Large Sequenced Mutant Library Provides Gene Leads for Breeding and Genome Editing”
• Bo Sun, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China – “Ethylene-Responsive SbWRKY50 Suppresses Leaf Senescence By Inhibition of Chlorophyll Degradation in Sorghum”
• Boris M. E. Alladassi, Iowa State University, Ames, IA – “Using UAV Imagery to Investigate the Dynamics of Plant Height Genetics across Development in Sorghum”
• Nikee Shrestha, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, OK 
• Tesfaye Mengiste, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN – “Exploring Nature’s Diversity: Unraveling Mechanisms for Robust Fungal Resistant Sorghums”

For more information visit the workshop’s webpage.