Botany 2008 Conference Program

Botany 2008 WEDNESDAY, JULY 30TH 157/Law 1:30 PM - 2:15 PM Economic Botany: Evolution of Cultivated Plants Chair: Hannes Dempewolf 1:30 1:45 2:00 63001 63002 63003 Schedule - Wednesday Hannes Dempewolf - The ‘domestication index’: assessing levels of domestication in the Compositae C. Donovan Bailey - Beans in the Basura: Serendipitous Backyard Hybridization in Leucaena (Fabaceae) Rajanikanth Govindarajulu - Divergent diploid species relationships in Leucaena inferred from multiple independent gene regions: a progress report 101/Law 1:30 PM - 3:15 PM Stress Tolerance Chair: Eric J von We�berg 1:30 1:45 2:00 2:15 2:30 2:45 64001 64002 64003 64004 64005 64006 Zafar Ullah Zafar - Does Nitrogen Nutrition Modulate Resistance to leaf curl virus (CLCuV) in co�on (Gossypium hirsutum L.)? Eric J von We�berg - Population diﬀerentiation in performance under heavy metal and low Ca:Mg stress in Arabidopsis lyrata Naveed Murtaza - Dissection of salinity tolerance in transgenic and non-transgenic co�on cultivars adnan younis - Comparative Growth Response of Various Cultivars of Bermuda Grass (Cyanodon dactylon) to Salinity Habib-ur-Rehman Athar - Using some potential osmoprotectants and antioxidants for improving plant growth under saline conditions: Achievements and limitations Muhammad Ibrahim - Categorization of co�on genotypes in salt tolerance categories on the basis of biomass production 211/SUB 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM Pollination Biology I Chair: Caroline Gross 1:30 1:45 2:00 2:15 2:30 3:00 3:15 65001 65002 65003 65004 65005 65006 Neil W. Sawyer - Reproductive Ecology of Trillium recurvatum Beck (Trilliaceae) Caroline Gross - Pollinator food-webs on granite outcrops - diversity, speciﬁcity and a ﬂy story Erin A. Tripp - Is ﬂoral specialization an evolutionary dead-end? Pollination system transitions in Ruellia (Acanthaceae) Carol English - Pollination biology for the rare Colorado endemic, Penstemon degeneri Nicole Miller - Plant-pollinator interactions and stress adaptation in a glade system: Implications for endemic plant species Siegy Krauss - A striking departure from near-neighbor mating in Australian plants pollinated by honeyeaters Discussion 178/Law 1:30 PM - 5:30 PM Plants and Fungi--Growing together Chairs: Darlene Southworth; Hugues Massico�e 1:30 1:45 2:15 2:45 3:15 3:45 4:15 4:45 5:15 S13001 S13002 S13003 S13004 S13005 S13006 S13007 Darlene Southworth - Plants and Fungi--Growing together. BSA-CBA Joint symposium Larry Peterson - Mycorrhizas: structural characteristics of the plant-fungus interface Thomas N. Taylor - Fungal endophytes: a driving force in land plant evolution Regina Redman - Habitat-adapted symbiosis: how plants achieve stress tolerance Break Suzanne W. Simard - Mycorrhizal networks and seedling establishment: a ma�er of life or death Rusty Rodriguez - Symbiotic modulation: a mechanism for plant distribution pa�erns Hugues Massico�e - Challenging the (botany) rules: mycoheterotrophy and mixotrophy as plant strategies Discussion 182/I K Barber 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Regional Botany Special Lecture 2:00 SL2001 Carl Wieman - Science Education in the 21st Century: Using the tools of science to teach science 67

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Botany 2008 Conference Program Contents Welcome To Vancouver General Meeting Information Scientific Field Trips Scientific And Educational Workshops Botany 2008 Plenary Address Botany 2008 Special Lectures Participating Societies Exhibitors And Sponsors Saturday, July 26 Sunday, July 27 Monday, July 28 Tuesday, July 29th Wednesday, July 30th Thursday, July 31th Poster Presentations Author Index By Session Number Week At A Glance Map - University Of British Columbia

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