New Direction for Forage Legumes – 
New Ideas, New Tools,  New  Products

Plaza 1 Room
Workshop and Roundtable Discussion 

3:15 pm - 5:00 pm

Moderator:  Deborah Samac, USDA-ARS, St. Paul, MN  

1.   Nontraditional uses of forage legumes

• Medicago Inc.: plant-made pharmaceuticals and nutraceuticals  
  P. Bilodeau

• Conservation and bioenergy  C. Sheaffer

• Discussion  

2.   Biotechnology in forage legumes

• Roundup Ready alfalfa, other commercial traits  S. Temple

• Potential Commercial traits with Cal/West Seeds  D. Johnson

• Discussion

3.   New research tools

• Discussion  

4.   Impact of Medicago truncatula genomics on improving forage legumes

• M. truncatula collection characterization  S. Greene

• M. truncatula genome sequencing  S. Cannon

• Advances in transcript profiling  D. Samac

• How to utilize information in forage legume improvement
       J. Volenec, C. Brummer

Additional short (5 minute) presentations are welcome!!  Contact Debby Samac for questions or additional details.  Come ready for a lively discussion!!