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PLANT CANADA 2019

SCHEDULE OF PLENARY SPEAKERS FOR PLANT CANADA 2019

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Time Monday July 8 Tuesday July 9 Wednesday July 10
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Place Room: Rozanski 104 Room: Rozanski 104 Room: Rozanski 104
8-8:30 Coffee-break (concourse) Coffee-break (concourse) Coffee-break (concourse)
Session Plant Biotechnology Agronomy Managing Plant Disease in
Horticulture
Chairs Dr. Rima Menassa & Dr. Helen Booker Dr. Lone Buchwaldt &
Dr. Abdelali Hannoufa Dr. Valerie Gravel
8:30am Dr. Maureen Hanson Dr. D. Brian Fowler Dr. Mary Ruth McDonald
Cornell University, NY University of Saskatchewan, SK University of Guelph, ON

Improving photosynthesis in Winter wheat production in the Billions, trillions and
C3 plants high winter stress climate of quadrillions: The challenge of
western Canada managing clubroot on canola
– An experiment in crop adaptation and vegetables
9:20am Dr. Bing Yang Dr. Clarence J Swanton Dr. Richard Bélanger
University of Missouri, MO University of Guelph, ON Université Laval, Québec, QC

Genome editing enables Plant competition and the A unique interaction with a
disease resistance in rice physiology of fear biocontrol agent alters the
parasitic activity of powdery
mildews on plants
10:10am Dr. Leslie Sieburth Dr. Jaswinder Singh Dr. Diane G.O. Saunders
University of Utah, UT McGill University, QC John Innes Centre, UK
CSPB C.D. Nelson Award Address:
Beyond transcription factors: New paradigms in the genetic The wheat-rust conflict: Shifty
A degrading story of gene regulation of pre- and post- harvest enemies and the long reach of
expression control grain germination in cereals genomics
11:00am Lunch at Creelman Hall Lunch at Creelman Hall Lunch at Creelman Hall
Session Root evolution, Development
and Function
Chairs Dr. Geoffrey Wasteneys

1:30 pm Dr. Liam Dolan
University of Oxford, UK

Evolution and development of
the earliest land plant rooting
systems
2:20 pm Dr. Siobhan Brady
Schedule of Plenary Talks at Plant U of California-Davis, CA

Canada 2019 Systems biology of root
development
3:10 pm Coffee-break (concourse)
3:40 pm Dr. William Plaxton
Queen’s University, Kingston, ON
CSPB Gold Medal Address:
Feeding hungry plants: purple
acid phosphatases play a
pivotal role in phosphorous
nutrition
4:30 pm CLOSING REMARKS

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