Molecular Breeding of Forage and Turf

1.
Molecular Breeding to Improve Forages for Use in Animal and Biofuel Production Systems

Joseph H. Bouton

2. DREB Regulons in Abiotic-Stress-Responsive Gene Expression in Plants
Kazuko Yamaguchi-Shinozaki, Kazuo Shinozaki

3. Comparative Genomics in Legumes
Steven Cannon

4. Development of Trifolium occidentale as a Plant Model System for Perennial Clonal Species
W. M. Williams, A. G. Griffiths, M. J. M. Hay, K. A. Richardson, N. W. Ellison, S. Rasmussen, I. M. Verry, V. Collette, S. W. Hussain, R. G. Thomas, C. S. Jones, C. Anderson, D. Maher, A. G. Scott, K. Hancock, M. L. Williamson, J. C. Tilbrook, M. Greig, A. Allan

5. Characterization and Utilization of Genetic Resources for Improvement and Management of Grassland Species
Roland Kölliker, Beat Boller, Mahdi Majidi, Madlaina K. I. Peter-Schmid, Seraina Bassin, Franco Widmer

6. Genomic and Geographic Origins of Timothy (Phleum sp.) Based on ITS and Chloroplast Sequences
Alan V. Stewart, Andrzej Joachimiak, Nick Ellison

7. Diploid Brachypodium distachyon of Turkey: Molecular and Morphologic Analysis
Ertugrul Filiz, Bahar Sogutmaz Ozdemir, Metin Tuna, Hikmet Budak

8. Remnant Oak Savanna Acts as Refugium for Meadow Fescue Introduced During Nineteenth Century Human Migrations in the USA
M. D. Casler, E. van Santen, M. W. Humphreys, T. Yamada, K. Tamura, N. W. Ellison, R. D. Jackson, D. J. Undersander, R. Gildersleeve, C. Stendal, M. Reiter, C. Opitz

9. Development of Microsatellite Markers for Brachiaria brizantha and Germplasm Diversity Characterization of this Tropical Forage Grass
Letícia Jungmann, Patrícia M. Francisco, Adna C.B. Sousa, Jussara Paiva, Cacilda B. do Valle, Anete P. de Souza

10. Functional Genomics of Forage and Bioenergy Quality Traits in the Grasses
Iain S. Donnison, Kerrie Farrar, Gordon G. Allison, Edward Hodgson, Jessic Adams, Robert Hatch, Joe A. Gallagher, Paul R. Robson, John C. Clifton-Brown, Phillip Morris

11. Proanthocyanidin Biosynthesis in Forage Legumes with Especial Reference to the Regulatory Role of R2R3MYB Transcription Factors and Their Analysis in Lotus japonicus

Mark P. Robbins, David Bryant, Samantha Gill, Phillip Morris, Paul Bailey, Tracey Welham, Cathie Martin, Trevor L. Wang, Takakazu Kaneko, Shusei Sato, Satoshi Tabata, Francesco Paolocci

12. Molecular Dissection of Proanthocyanidin and Anthocyanin Bosynthesis in White Clover (Trifolium repens)
Aidyn Mouradov, Stephen Panter, Shamila Abeynayake, Ross Chapman, Tracie Webster, German Spangenberg

13. Transcript Profiling of Cold Responsive Genes in Medicago falcata

Chaoshu Pang, Congying Wang, Huiping Chen, Zhenfei Guo, Cong Li

14. Genetic Diversity and Association Mapping of Three O-Methyltransferase Genes in Maize and Tropical Grasses
Baldomero Alarcon-Zuniga, Adriana Hernandez-Garcia, Elias Vega-Vicente, Cuauhtemoc Cervantes-Martinez, Marilyn Warburton, Teresa Cervantes-Martinez

15. QTL Analysis and Gene Expression Studies in White Clover
Michael T. Abberton, Athole Marshall, Rosemary P. Collins, Charlotte Jones, Matthew Lowe

16. Genome Mapping in Cool-Season Forage Grasses
Hongwei Cai, Maiko Inoue, Nana Yuyama, Mariko Hirata

17. Understanding the Genetic Basis of Flowering and Fertility in the Ryegrasses (Lolium spp.)
Ian Armstead, Bicheng Yang, Susanne Barth, Lesley Turner, Leif Skøt, Athole Marshall, Mervyn Humphreys, Ian King, Danny Thorogood

18. Improving Selection in Forage, Turf, and Biomass Crops Using Molecular Markers
E. Charles Brummer, Michael D. Casler

19. Interpretation of SNP Haplotype Complexity in White Clover (Trifolium repens L.), an Outbreeding Allotetraploid Species
Kahlil A. Lawless, Michelle C. Drayton, Melanie C. Hand, Rebecca C. Ponting, Noel O.I. Cogan, Timothy I. Sawbridge, Kevin F. Smith, Germán C. Spangenberg, John W. Forster

20. Development of Marker-Assisted Selection for the Improvement of Freezing Tolerance in Alfalfa
Yves Castonguay, Jean Cloutier, Réal Michaud, Annick Bertrand, Serge Laberge

21. Comparative Analysis of Disease Resistance Between Ryegrass and Cereal Crops
Geunhwa Jung, Young-Ki Jo, Reed Barker, William Pfender, Scott Warnke

22. White Clover Seed Yield: A Case Study in Marker-Assisted Selection
Brent Barrett, Ivan Baird, Derek Woodfield

23. Molecular Mapping of QTLs Associated with Important Forage Traits in Tall Fescue
Malay Saha, Francis Kirigwi, Konstantin Chekhovskiy, Jennifer Black, Andy Hopkins

24.
Utilizing Linkage Disequilibrium and Association Mapping to Implement Candidate Gene Based Markers in Perennial Ryegrass Breeding

Kevin F. Smith, Mark P. Dobrowolski, Noel O. I. Cogan, Germán C. Spangenberg, John W. Forster

25. Genetic Diversity in Australasian Populations of the Crown Rust Pathogen of Ryegrasses (Puccinia coronata f.sp. lolii)

Peter Dracatos, Jeremy Dumsday, Alan Stewart, Mark Dobrowolski, Noel Cogan, Kevin Smith, John Forster

26. Fungal Endophytes in Lolium and Festuca Species
Christopher L. Schardl

27. Seed Transmission of Endophytic Fungus, Neotyphodium occultans, in Cross Breeding of Italian Ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum) Using Detached Panicle Culture, and Comparison with Situations in Interspecific/Intergeneric crossings including Festuca species
Koya Sugawara, Akira Arakawa, Takuya Shiba, Hiroto Ohkubo, Takao Tsukiboshi

28. Colonial Bentgrass Genetic Linkage Mapping
David Rotter, Keenan Amundsen, Stacy A. Bonos, William A. Meyer, Scott E. Warnke, Faith C. Belanger

29. Advances and Prospects in the Molecular Breeding of Zoysia

Makoto Yaneshita

30. Transgenesis in Forage Crops
Zeng-Yu Wang, Jeremey Bell, Xiaofei Cheng, Yaxin Ge, Xuefeng Ma, Elane Wright, Yajun Xi, Xirong Xiao, Jiyi Zhang, Joseph Bouton

31. Evaluating the Role of Habitat Quality on Establishment of GM Agrostis stolonifera Plants in Non-agronomic Settings
Lidia S. Watrud, Mike Bollman, Marjorie Storm, George King, Jay R. Reichman, Connie Burdick, E Henry Lee

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