Poster Abstracts

1. Sphingolipids are required for endomembrane function in Arabidopsis
R. Howard Berg, Charles R. Dietrich and Edgar B. Cahoon

2. Requirement of WAVE and Arp 2/3 complexes in protonema cell elongation
Pierre-François Perroud and Ralph S. Quatrano

3. Molecular network underlying floral transition process in soybean (Glycine max) shoot apical meristem
Annie C. E. Wong, Mohan B. Singh and Prem L. Bhalla

4. Chromatin domains of the fourth chromosome of Drosophila melanogaster
Nicole C. Riddle, Wilson Leung and Sarah C. R. Elgin

5. Short hairpin RNAs induce sequence-specific silencing for the C2 and C4 genes of TYLCV and interfering viral DNA accumulation in tomato plants
Naglaa A. Abdallah1, Claude M. Fauquet, Khaled H. Radwan and Magdy Madour
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6. Targeting nematode parasitism genes to develop transgenic plant resistance
Charlotte Kenning, Richard Hussey, Eric Davis, Thomas Baum and
Melissa G. Mitchum

7. Genetic engineering for enhanced production of ß-carotene in the seeds of peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.)
Vanamala Anjaiah, Madhurima Bhatnagar, S.K. Tripuani, Maurice M. Moloney and Kiran K. Sharma

8. Toward biohydrogen production in the cyanobacterium Anabaena variabilis: transcriptional regulation of the uptake hydrogenase, hupSL.
Philip D. Weyman, Martin Engqvist, Brenda Pratte and Teresa Thiel

9. Moonlighting activity of presenilin in plants is independent of γ -secretase and evolutionarily conserved
Abha Khandelwal, Dilip Chandu, Catherine M. Roe, Raphael Kopan and Ralph S. Quatrano
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10. Asexual reproduction within the genus Kalanchoë proceeds through ectopic recruitment of organogenic and embryogenic programs in leaves
Helena M. P. Garcês, Connie E. M. Champagne, Brad T. Townsley, Soomin Park, Rui Malhó, Maria C. Pedroso, John J. Harada and Neelima R. Sinha
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11. Development plum transformation protocol by usage various selective agents
Roman Mikhailov and Sergey Dolgov

12. Disarmed Agrobacterium rhizogenes: A new tool with improved plant transformation characteristics
Veena, Ray Collier, Christopher G. Taylor
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13. The knockdown of the 24 kDa oleosin in soybean seeds results in the formation of an oil body/ER complex containing high levels of caleosin
Monica A. Schmidt and Eliot M. Herman

14. Identification of Saccharomyces cerevisiae YPR1 as a methylglyoxal reducing enzyme: Overexpression enhances oxidative stress tolerance in
E. coli

Mei Firestone, Brad Rozema, Keith Earley and Ching-Nen Nathan Chen

15. Controlling combinatorial biosynthesis of alkaloids in Catharanthus roseus cell suspension culture
Justin J. Maresh and Sarah E. O’Connor

16. Elevated expression of plant lysyl tRNA synthetase promotes tRNA misacylation and translational recoding of lysine
Xingrong Wu, Alexander Kenzior, David Willmot, Sarah Scanlon, Zhihong Chen and William R. Folk
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17. Identification and functional characterization of an ultraconserved exonskipping/including event associated with transcription factor IIIA gene in plants
Yan Fu, Hao Chen, Hao Peng, Zhi Qi and Brad Barbazuk
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18. Apparent immunity to potato leaf roll virus in potato cultivar desirée by intron-spliced hairpin targeting the viral coat protein gene
Jan Kreuze, Jeanette Orbegozo, Ida Bartolini, Wilmer Cuellar, Dennis Gonsalves and Marc Ghislain

19. Xb10, a WRKY transcription factor, acts as a negative regulator of Xa21-mediated disease resistance in rice
Ying Peng, Christopher Dardick, Randy Ruan and Pamela Ronald

20. Functional analysis of Arabidopsis transcription factors using chimeric repressors
Nobutaka Mitsuda, Tomotsugu Koyama, Kyoko Matsui and Masaru Ohme-Takagi
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21. Enhancement of vitamin B6 levels in seeds
Hao Chen and Liming Xiong
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22. Intragenic options for Specialty Crop Improvement: High health and quality without foreign DNA
Kathy Swords, Jingsong Ye, Craig Richael, Hua Yan, Wally Huffman and Caius Rommens

23. Feasibility for identification of gene 5 protein (G5P) and its expression levels in transgenic cassava
Marina I. Pestova, Jitender Yadav, Ratna Kumria and Claude Fauquet
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24. Network analysis of the Arabidopsis transcriptome reveals control circuits regulating redox homeostasis
Abha Khandelwal, Thanura Elvitigala, Bijoy Ghosh and Ralph Quatrano

25. Use of artificial miRNAs to control African Cassava Mosaic Virus
Basavaraj Bagewadi, Basavaprabhu Patil and Claude Fauquet
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26. Isolation and characterization of rice genes involved in lignocellulosic biosynthesis
Su-May Yu, Swee-suak Ko, Ming-lung Cheng and T.H. David Ho

27. Towards developing transgenic resistance to cassava brown streak disease
Emmanuel Ogwok, Basavaprabhu Patil, Titus Alicai, and Claude Fauquet
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28. Understanding the biodiversity of cotton leaf curl disease-associated viruses and their satellites
Muhammad Shah Nawaz-ul-Rehman, Shahid Mansoor, Rob W. Briddon and Claude M. Fauquet
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29. Evaluation of gene 5 protein (G5P) for its potential allergenicity in vitro
Marina I. Pestova, Jitender Yadav, Ratna Kumria and Claude Fauquet
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31. Establishment of a correlation between siRNA production and geminivirus resistance in transgenic cassava
Ratna Kumria, Jitender S. Yadav, Mohommad Abhary, Brent A. Trauterman, Nigel J. Taylor and Claude M. Fauquet
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32. G5 mediated resistance to geminiviruses in transgenic cassava
Jitender S. Yadav, Marina I. Pestova, Nigel J. Taylor and Claude M. Fauquet
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33. Genetic engineering of AtDREB1D transcription factor to improve drought tolerance in soybean
Satish K. Guttikonda, Babu Valliyodan and Henry T. Nguyen

34. Transgenic cassava (Manihot esculenta) storage roots with enhanced protein content
Mohammed K. Abhary, Nigel Taylor and Claude Fauquet
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35. Multi-virus resistant transgenic tomatoes; combined techniques of marker assisted breeding and pathogen derived resistance
Mohammad Abhary, Anfoka, G., Rezk, A., Issa, O., Akad, F., Chouchane, S., Sobh, H., Vidavski, F., Lapidot, M., Abu-Jawdah, Y., El Mehrach, K., Sedegui, M.,
Fakhfakh, H., Iragi, N., Mazyad, H., Marrakchi, M, Nakhla, M., Meja, L., Czosnek, H., Maxwell, D.P.

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36. Identification of storage proteins in cassava (Manihot escuelenta) storage roots using two-dimensional gels
Ariel Simmons and Claude Fauquet

37. Ancient transgenesis: An actinoporin plays a key role in water stress in Physcomitrella patens
Quoc Truong Hoang, Sung Hyun Cho, Stuart F. McDaniel, Sung Han Ok, Ralph S. Quatrano, Van Chi Phan, Jeong Sheop Shin

38. DEMETER DNA glycosylase regulates MEDEA Polycomb gene self-imprinting and seed viability by allele-specific demethylation
Wenyan Xiao, Mary Gehring, Jin Hoe Huh, Tzung-Fu Hsieh, Jon Penterman, Yeonhee Choi, and Robert L. Fischer

39. Optimization of Gene Silencing Constructs to Control Cassava Mosaic Disease
Basavaprabhu L. Patil, Basavaraj B. Bagewadi and Claude M. Fauquet
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40. Short Hairpin RNAs to Control Cassava Mosaic Geminiviruses
Basavaprabhu L. Patil, Basavaraj B. Bagewadi and Claude M. Fauquet