Presentations - 4th Annual Meeting of the Chickpea Innovation Lab, December 2017
The following are PDF files of the meeting power point presentations.
Introduction and Meeting Objectives and Expected Outcomes
Doug Cook, Director, Chickpea Innovation Lab
Session 1: Understanding wild species dynamics
Building the base: Widening the genetic & adaptive diversity of chickpea - a global collaboration
Jens Berger, The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia
Ecology and population genetics to understand wild system dynamics
Eric von Wettberg, University of Vermont, USA
Landraces as a source of cultivated diversity
Sergey Nuzhdin, University of Southern California, USA
Unraveling the history of selection in wild and cultivated lineages
Peter Chang, University of Southern California, USA
Deciphering the wild microbiome
Doug Cook, University of California Davis, USA
Session 2: Moving wild traits into the cultivated genepool
Systematic pre-breeding populations of wild x cultivated accessions
Doug Cook, University of California Davis, USA
GWAS and QTL analysis of yield-related traits
Sergey Nuzhdin, University of Southern California, USA
Heat tolerance and agronomic traits from wild accessions
Pooran Gaur, ICRISAT, India
Wild progenitors as a source of drought tolerance
Vincent Vadez, ICRISAT, India
Disease resistance
Doug Cook, University of California Davis, USA
Session 3: Nitrogen fixation
Diverse symbionts of chickpea
Alex Greenspan, University of California Davis, USA
Development of commercial grade inocula
Guido Ramirez, Rizobacter, Agrentina
The Australian perspective
Graham O’Hara, Murdoch University, Australia
Towards commercial outcomes
Doug Cook, University of California Davis, USA
Closing session - Looking forward
Doug Cook
