Reminder: NAPB Webinar Series Starts on Wednesday April 1, 2015

2015 NAPB Webinar Series

The National Association of Plant Breeders (NAPB) in partnership with the Plant Breeding Coordinating Committee and the Plant Breeding and Genomics Community of Practice presents a new webinar series in April and May, 2015: The Science of Selections. The webinars in this series take place at 2PM Eastern Time (1PM Central, 12PM Mountain, 11AM Pacific Time). Participants will be able to type in questions for the presenters. Advance registration is required. Register now at the links below.

Date Title Presenters
April 1, 2015 Cotton: From Depression Era Mules to the Moon and Back Johnie Jenkins, USDA ARS
April 8, 2015 Raspberry Breeding for the Pacific Northwest Pat Moore, Washington State University
April 15, 2015 From Lilies to Gladiolus: Flower Power Neil Anderson, University of Minnesota
April 22, 2015 Sugarbeet Genetics, Genomics and Germplasm Enhancement Mitch McGrath, Michigan State University
April 29, 2015 Solutions and Sustainability in Soybean Breeding Tommy Carter, USDA ARS
May 6, 2015 Plant Breeding Approaches and Technologies for Challenges in Agriculture: A view from a Texas Maize Breeding Program Seth Murray, Texas A&M University
May 13, 2015 Getting Oily with Soybeans Istvan Rajcan, University of Guelph
May 20, 2015 Developing Crunchy and Colorful Carrots Roger Freeman, Bayer Crop Science Vegetable Breeding
May 27, 2015 Breeding Peanuts: The story of a lowly groundnut Barry Tillman, University of Florida