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Digital Poster Gallery
Scroll through the virtual gallery of this year's poster presentations! Posters will be available for viewing for a month following the symposium. Contact information for each presenter can be found at the bottom of the image.
Poster Topics
Posters are grouped broadly by topic. Please select a topic below to be automatically directed to the appropriate section.
Plant Breeding
1. Evaluating Cowpea Heat Tolerance
2. Improving Blueberry by Dissecting Fruit Texture
3. Internal White Tissue Disorder in Tomatoes (Solanum lycopersicum): Genetic Mapping and Molecular Marker Development
4. Optimizing early season productivity by modelling production curves in a strawberry breeding program
5. Genomic Associations of Aroma Traits in Apple (Malus domestica)
6. Adoption of Different Omics to Adapt Alfalfa to Southeastern USA
7. More than meets the “Breeder’s Eye”: Near Infrared Spectroscopy for Phenomic Selection of Fruit Quality in University of Florida’s Strawberry Breeding Program
8. Genetic Variability among Alfalfa Families for Dry matter yield (DMY) and Forage Quality Parameters
9. Optimizing Sparse Testing Designs for Genomic Prediction in Potato Multi-Environment Trials
10. Assessment of genotype by environment interaction for forage accumulation in Bermudagrass across the Southeastern US
11. Whole-Genome Meta-Analysis Coupled with Haplotype Analysis Reveal New Genes and Functional Haplotypes Conferring Pre-Harvest Sprouting in Rice
12. Next-Generation Sequencing in an Elite Peanut Population Reveals a Major Seed Size QTL on Chromosome B06 and a Few Minor Shelling Quality Trait QTLs
13. Genetic Resistance to Meloidogyne enterolobii in the Cowpea UCR Minicore Collection
14. Path to Food Security: Investigating the Utility of Feral Populations for Brassica Crop Breeding
15. A Case for Heat-Tolerant Broccoli: Insights from Research and a Vision for Future Breeding
16. Modeling Broccoli Flowering Time Using Crop Growth Models Across Variable Planting Dates
17. Insights into Broccoli’s Heat Sensitivity Using Genomic Prediction Models of Flowering Time
Plant Pathology
18. Identification and Characterization of HLB-Tolerant Sweet Oranges: A Genetic Approach for Combatting Citrus Greening Disease
19. Development of crown rot-resistance peanut via EMS-induced mutagenesis
20. Characterization of native soil isolates for the inhibition of rice blast disease and promotion of plant growth.
21. Characterizing the Biochemical Activity and Role of a Poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase in Magnaporthe oryzae
22. In vitro micrografting of babaco [Vasconcellea × heilbornii (Badillo)] on jigacho rootstock (Vasconcellea stipulata) as an alternative for plants resistant to Fusarium oxysporum
23. Genetic analysis of virulence traits of Clavibacter nebraskensis, the agent of bacterial leaf blight of maize.
24. Nanoscale Cus Foliar Application Enhances Fusarium Suppression In Tomatoes
Plant Genetics
25. Locus- and Tissue-Specific CHH Methylation Through RNA-Directed
DNA Methylation During Female Gametophyte Development in Rice
26. Genome-Wide DNA Methylation Profiling of the Octoploid Strawberry (F. × ananassa)
27. Identification of C-S lyases functioning in glucosinolate biosynthesis in Arabidopsis thaliana
28. Heat Stress at Tricellular Stage in Maize Inhibits Pollen Dehiscence
29. Multi-Omics Insights into Postharvest Deterioration in Artichoke for Enhanced Shelf Life and Health Benefits
30. Enhancement of transcriptomic dataset visualization through open-source digital resources
31. Genetic Modification of Scutellaria via Agrobacterium-Mediated Transformation
32. Scutellaria racemosa, a South American Skullcap for Affordable Therapeutic Applications
33. Optimizing Plant-Derived Extracellular Vesicles for Drug Delivery and Therapeutic Development