Conference: Evolution of Plant Phenotypes, from Genomes to Traits to be held in Barcelona, Spain on March 17-18, 2015

Iowa State University, Ames IA

Investigators

Abstract

This award will support attendance by U.S. scientists at the Conference on Evolution of Plant Phenotypes, from Genomes to Traits to be held in Barcelona, Spain on March 17-18, 2015. The meeting will include presentations by junior and senior investigators in a format that will promote scientific exchange in both formal and informal settings. Presentations will address a range of topics related to plant evolution, with the overarching aim of providing insights with potential applications to sustainable agriculture and food security. The scientific goal of the meeting will be to connect genotype to phenotype by emphasizing two specific areas in plant evolution: effects of multiple rounds of whole genome doubling and contributions to genome evolution of proliferation and deletion of transposable elements. In these contexts, focus will be on domestication, breeding and local adaptation of crop genomes. To broadly share the outcomes of the meeting, presentations will be available from the conference website, and a meeting report will be published in a widely disseminated journal. Funded by the Plant Genome Research Program in the Directorate of Biological Sciences, Division of Integrative Organismal Systems.