Tuesday, April 20, 2010: 1:00 PM-4:30 PM
Salon A-E (Hilton Clearwater Beach)
Session 5: Developments in New/Improved Biomass Sources
Chair:Richard A. Dixon
Co-chair:Gerald Tuskan
1:00 PMGenetic dissection of bioenergy traits in sorghum
Wilfred Vermerris, Ana Saballos, Stephen Kresovich, Seth Murray, William Rooney, Jeffrey F. Pedersen, Scott Sattler, Zhanguo Xin
1:30 PMMolecular factors associated with altered cell wall chemistry in Populus
Udaya C. Kalluri, Gerald Tuskan, Timothy Tschaplinski, Xiaohan Yang, Sara Jawdy, Ranjan Priya, Maud Hinchee, Shujun Chang, Erika Lindquist, Zhong Wang, Hettich Robert, Andrews Paul, Mark Davis, Robert Sykes
2:00 PMLignin modification in switchgrass for improved ethanol production
Chunxiang Fu, Jonathan R. Mielenz, Xirong Xiao, Choo Hamilton, Fang Chen, Joe Bouton, Richard A. Dixon, Zeng-Yu Wang
2:30 PMCoffee Break Sponsored by Gevo
3:00 PMLignin modification for biomass improvement- benefits and consequences
Richard A. Dixon
3:30 PMSeparation, hydrolysis and fermentation of pyrolytic sugars
Jieni Lian, Shuai Zhou, Zhouhong Wang, Chun-zhu Li, Manuel Garcia-Perez, Shulin Chen
4:00 PMDiscovering traits controlling winter hardiness and spring regrowth in diverse switchgrass germplasm
Gautam Sarath, Kenneth P. Vogel, Christian Tobias, Madhavan Soundararajan, Paul Twigg, Aaron J. Saathoff, Miki Okada

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