Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Invited talk @ 4th Grapevine Research Co-ordination Network Meeting
Matt Gilliham will give an invited talk at the 4th Annual Grapevine Research Co-ordination meeting on rootstock genomics. The meeting will be held in Corvallis Oregon in July 2012. See here for the meeting website.
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Invited talk @ ASPB in US
Matt Gilliham will give an invited talk at the ASPB meeting in Houston Texas on the 21st July in the Metal Stress symposium on the role of HKT in salinity tolerance in wheat.
http://my.aspb.org/?page=Meeting_MiniSymposia
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
PCP Lab @ the Gordon Conference on Salt Stress
Sam Henderson (PhD Student) working on salinity tolerance in grapevines and Steve Tyerman (COE CI), on root to shoot hydraulic signalling, will present their work at the Gordon Conference in Hong Kong at the end of June.
Our collaborator Rana Munns from CSIRO PI will also present a talk, which will include our work on improving the salt tolerance of wheat.
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Wine science innovation award
Matt Gilliham was the recipient of the Viticulture & Oenology 2012 Science and Innovation Award for Young People in Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry awarded by the Commonwealth Government and sponsored by the Grape and Wine Research and Development Corporation.
The award will fund a project that will map the genetic make-up of a grapevine rootstock that is vitally important to the wine industry using next generation sequencing. By mapping the genome it will provide the first step in identifying the genes that confer the favourable traits of rootstocks such as phylloxera and nematode resistance, and drought and salinity tolerance. This will also allow the identification of markers for these traits and the acceleration of rootstock breeding programs.
The project will be carried out in collaboration with researchers at the ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology (Prof. Jim Whelan and Dr Estelle Giraud) and the University of Verona, Italy (Profs. Mario Pezzotti & Massimo Delledone, Dr. Alberto Ferrarini). The team based at the Waite Campus includes Sam Henderson, a graduate student in the lab, and Rob and Mandy Walker at CSIRO Plant Industry.
Here are links with additional information.
Waite Research Institute
University of Adelaide
ABC Radio - audio coming soon
The award will fund a project that will map the genetic make-up of a grapevine rootstock that is vitally important to the wine industry using next generation sequencing. By mapping the genome it will provide the first step in identifying the genes that confer the favourable traits of rootstocks such as phylloxera and nematode resistance, and drought and salinity tolerance. This will also allow the identification of markers for these traits and the acceleration of rootstock breeding programs.
The project will be carried out in collaboration with researchers at the ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology (Prof. Jim Whelan and Dr Estelle Giraud) and the University of Verona, Italy (Profs. Mario Pezzotti & Massimo Delledone, Dr. Alberto Ferrarini). The team based at the Waite Campus includes Sam Henderson, a graduate student in the lab, and Rob and Mandy Walker at CSIRO Plant Industry.
Here are links with additional information.
Waite Research Institute
University of Adelaide
ABC Radio - audio coming soon
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