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DESCRIPTION: \n\nYou are invited to attend a special seminar by Dr. Erik Sa
 cks\, Department of Crop Sciences\, University of Illinois\n\nMiscanthus\,
  a native of eastern Asia and Oceania\, has been an important ornamental g
 rass in North American gardens for more than a century. A close relative o
 f sugarcane but with adaptation to temperate environments\, Miscanthus Xgi
 ganteus has recently been identified as a promising bioenergy crop. To fac
 ilitate crop improvement\, Sacks' research group has endeavored to underst
 and the relationships among and within Miscanthus species\, especially the
  parental species of M. Xgiganteus\, and their putative hybrids with sugar
 cane. This effort also enabled them to corroborate and shed light on the h
 istory of the West’s earliest introductions of Miscanthus. By combining ge
 netic data from high throughput sequencing with phenotypic data from field
  trials of Miscanthus\, Sacks has begun to identify QTL\, and in some case
 s genes\, that confer key biomass and adaptation traits.\n\nThis seminar i
 s hosted by the Department of Plant Science.\n\n \n
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LOCATION:R4-047\, Raymond Building\, CA\, QC\, St Anne de Bellevue\, H9X 3V
 9\, 21111 Lakeshore Road
SUMMARY:Breeding of Miscanthus is aided by understanding its complex evolut
 ionary history\, including its relationship with Saccharum
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 d-understanding-its-complex-evolutionary-history-including-its-relationshi
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