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Conference Wide Kessler, Andre [1], Poveda, Katja [2], Knapp, Sandy [3], Zamir, Dani [4]. SOL-ANDINO: Interest Group Meeting. ABSTRACT. The dramatic genomic advances that are made in the light of the SOL genome project is generating knowledge and tools that establish the Solanaceae family as an excellent model system that can help to understand the evolutionary mechanisms behind the plants’ interactions with their natural environment. This development comes right in a time of consolidation in biological sciences where scientific progress will be made through comparative biology/genomics and in the interface between different biological disciplines.
To facilitate such integrative research approaches among the SOL community the SGN has launched a new initiative, SOL-ANDINO, that aims to link the tremendous genomic efforts to basic and applied biological research of Solanaceae in their native habitats. SOL-ANDINO will help to establish an international and integrative research network to share and enrich resources, visions and capacities relating to biodiversity, ecology, conservation, plant breeding and sustainable agriculture with Solanaceae as a case study. In this session we will discuss the logistics, focus and specific projects of the initiative to breathe life into the concept papers.
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SOL-ANDINO
1 - Cornell University, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, E 445 Corson Hall, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA
2 - Georg-August-University Göttingen, Agroecology, Waldweg 26, 37073 Göttingen, , Germany
3 - Natural History Museum, Department of Botany, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, UK
4 - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, The Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture, Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Qua, Rehovot, 76100, Israel
Keywords:
field research
ecology
Biodiversity
Interest group meeting.
Session: Poster-160
Location: Ballroom CD/Monona Terrace
Date: Tuesday, July 25th, 2006
Time: 8:00 AM
Abstract ID:440 |
