Davis, California
February 2, 2009
Source:
Seed Biotechnology Center
at UC Davis
Seed Biology, Production &
Quality Course
The Seed Biotechnology
Center, together with UC Davis Extension, is offering a
two-day class focused on seed biology on March 25-26,
2009.
This unique course is designed for professionals in the seed
industry, crop consultants and growers to update and expand
their current knowledge. Participants will learn fundamental
and specialized information on topics including seed
development, production, harvesting, testing, conditioning,
enhancement, storage, and quality assessment.
This course is completely updated and the instructors
include: Dr. Derek Bewley (University of Guelph, Canada),
Dr. Henk Hilhorst (Wageningen University, The Netherlands),
Dr. Hiro Nanogaki (Oregon State University, Corvallis) and
Dr. Kent Bradford and Dr. Allen Van Deynze from the
University of California, Davis. 4 Registered Seed
Technologist points available.
For more information and to enroll, go to:
http://sbc.ucdavis.edu.
Seed Quality Assessment
Workshop
Kent Bradford, director of
the Seed Biotechnology Center, will be a key speaker at a
Seed Quality Assessment Workshop to be held at UC Davis
March 10-12.
Sponsored by
ASTEC-Global Seed Technology, the workshop will
demonstrate Q2 – ASTEC’s new technology which monitors seed
germination based on individual oxygen consumption in a
fully controlled air-tight environment. Would you like to
know the advantages of Q2? Get to know other state of the
art techniques in seed germination quality potential? Listen
to Bradford’s experience with the machine? Then this
workshop is right for you. The $900 cost includes meals and
hotel lodging. The workshop is limited to 16 participants.
Email questions and reservation requests by February 24 to
Lori McDuffie at:
lmcduffie@agterra.com.
SBC’s 10th Anniversary
Symposium
The Seed Biotechnology
Center is celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2009!
To help commemorate this event, there will be a symposium on
the UC Davis campus on May 11-12, 2009, entitled “Seed
Biotechnologies: Filling the Gap between the Public and
Private Sector.” This event will include an evening
social on May 11th with a keynote address by Rob Dirks of
Rijk Zwaan. A full day of talks will be held on May 12th,
with confirmed speakers including Mathilde Causse (INRA,
France), Molly Jahn (University of Wisconsin), Jean Kridl
(Arcadia), and Pam Ronald (UC Davis).
This event will be open to the public and we hope you will
be able to join us.
For more information or to register for this event, go to
SBC or contact Jamie Miller at 530-752-9985 or
jkmiller@ucdavis.edu.
|
|
