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2008 National Fusarium Head Blight Forum

PRESENTATIONS

NOTE: The speakers whose presentations are posted request that these presentations be used as a source of information only and are not to be used as presentations per se. Please contact the presenters directly if you have specific questions about the presentations or their use.

BY SESSION: BY PRESENTER:

SESSION 1:  FHB MANAGEMENT
CO-CHAIRPERSONS:   Erick DeWolf, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA, and Don Hershman, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA (12/2/2008)

Cultural Control Practices in the Management of Fusarium Head Blight.
Ruth Dill-Macky, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, USA

Fungicides for FHB Management: Past, Present and Future.
Carl Bradley, University of Illinois, Peoria, IL, USA and Marcia McMullen, North Dakota University, ND, USA

Advances in the Epidemiology of Fusarium Head Blight and Application in Prediction Models.
Erick De Wolf, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA

Biological Control of Scab: How Close Are We to Reality?
Gary Yuen, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, USA

How Application Technology for FHB has changed Over the Decade.
Scott Halley, North Dakota State University, Langdon, ND, USA

SESSION 2:  PATHOGEN BIOLOGY AND GENETICS
CHAIRPERSON:   Anne Desjardins, USDA-ARS, Peoria, IL, USA (12/3/2008)

Using Natural Variation to Characterize Virulence:  The TRI13 Story.
Andy Jarosz, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA

SESSION 3:  FOOD SAFETY, TOXICOLOGY AND UTILIZATION OF MYCOTOXIN-CONTAMINATED GRAIN
CO-CHAIRPERSONS:   David Kendra, USDA-ARS, Peoria, IL, USA, and David Schmale, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, USA (12/3/2008)

Rapid DON Testing and Method Performance Evaluation at the USDA.
Tim Norden, Federal Grain Inspection Service, USDA-GIPSA-TDS, Kansas City, MO, USA

SESSION 4:  GENE DISCOVERY AND ENGINEERING RESISTANCE
CHAIRPERSON:   Michael Lawton, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA (12/3/2008)

Genes and Mechanisms Associated with Plant Interaction with F. graminearum.
Jyoti Shah, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, USA

Toward Positional Cloning of Fhb1, a Major QTL for Fusarium Head Blight Resistance in Wheat.
Jim Anderson, University of Minnesota, MN, USA

SESSION 5:  VARIETY DEVELOPMENT AND HOST PLANT RESISTANCE
CO-CHAIRPERSONS:   Steve Harrison, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA, and Brian Steffenson, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, USA (12/4/2008)

Characterization and Development of FHB Resistant Soft Winter Wheat Cultivars in the Eastern U.S.
Carl Griffey, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, USA

Development of FHB Resistant Spring Wheat in the Northern Great Plains.
Karl Glover, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD, USA

The ICARDA Program for Breeding FHB Resistance in Barley.
Flavio Capettini, ICARDA, Aleppo, SYRIA

Using Association Mapping to Identify Fusarium Head Blight Resistance QTL within Contemporary Barley Breeding Germplasm.
Jon Massman, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, USA