UK Brassica Research Community

Annual Meeting, Tuesday July 5th

Rothamsted Research, Conference Centre

Presentations - downloadable as Powerpoint presentation (.pps) or PDF format

Adding Value through the supply chain
Richard Mithen (IFR)	Nutrition and anticancer activity
Vicky Buchanan-Wollaston (WHRI)	Shelf life quality in vegetable brassicas
Jonathan Napier (RRES)	O -3 v.long PUFAs in GM oilseeds (Arabidopsis - Brassica )
Crop Improvement
Paul Hand (WHRI)	Vegetable brassica crop improvement
Nash Nashaat (RRES)	Indo-UK Collaboration on Oilseed brassicas
Brian Ford-Lloyd ( Birmingham)	Genetic diversity at genetic and transcriptomic levels
Trait biology
Judith Irwin (JIC)	Vernalization requirement and response
Mike Kearsey ( Birmingham )	Candidate genes for flowering QTL in B. oleracea
Pete Berry (ADAS)	ADAS oilseed rape research
Philip White (WHRI)	Fertiliser use efficiency
Malcolm Hawkesford (RRES)	Sulphate transporters and sulphate remobilization
Billl Finch-Savage (WHRI)	Seed & seedling vigour
John Walsh (WHRI)	Brassica virus research
Jim Beynon (WHRI)	Pathogenicity effectors of downy mildew from B. oleracea
Jon West (RRES)	CORDISOR: Components of resistance to diseases in OSR
Genomics, tools and information management
Elaine Howell ( Birmingham )	Advances in Brassica cytogenetics
Guy Barker (WHRI)	Traits and genomics
Martin Trick (JIC)	First-pass Brassica BAC annotation (.pdf)
Penelope Sparrow (JIC)	BRACT: An update on Brassica transformation (.pdf)
Graham Teakle (WHRI)	Brassica diversity sets (DFFS) and map integration

GARNet (Arabidopsis network) and ABC Forum (Arabidopsis, Brassica , Cereals)	Ruth Bastow
The Multinational Brassica Genome Project	Graham King
The Brassica rapa Sequencing Project	Ian Bancroft
BBSRC Crop Science Review Innovations in Crop Science Initiative Strategy for UK-BRC (.pps) Discussion document (.doc)	Discussion   Bancroft Bancroft, King
ERANet-PG (plant genomics) : structuring national plant genomics research programmes in Europe	Sophie Laurie (BBSRC)