101
Symposium--Crop Respiration - The Other Half of the Carbon Balance

Oral Session

C02 Crop Physiology and Metabolism

Understanding the effects of respiratory carbon losses on crop yield. Role of respiration in stress tolerance, genetic improvement, and heterosis.

Monday, November 4, 2013: 8:45 AM-12:00 PM

Tampa Convention Center, Room 19

Organizer:

Hugh J. Earl

Presider:

Hugh J. Earl

8:45 AM

Introductory Remarks

8:50 AM

101-1

Crop Respiration: How Efficient, Why Efficient, When Efficient -- An Overview of Theory and Reality.
Jeffrey S Amthor, University of Sydney

9:15 AM

101-2

Root Respiration Metabolism Associated With Heat Tolerance in Perennial Grass Species.
Bingru Huang, Rutgers University

9:40 AM

101-3

Fast, Cheap, and Good: Traits That Reduce Root Respiration Increase Tolerance to Drought and Low N.
Jonathan P. Lynch, Pennsylvania State University

10:05 AM

Break

10:20 AM

101-4

Using the iPlant Cyberinfrastructure to Explore the Connections Between Cellular Respiration, Heterosis and the Molecular Biology of Aging.
Stephen A Goff, iPlant Collaborative, BIO5 Institute, University of Arizona

10:45 AM

101-5

Converting Carbohydrates Into Biomass: The Role of Respiration and Its Importance in Determining Carbon Use Efficiency.
Marc van Iersel, University of Georgia

11:10 AM

101-6

Field Measurement of Respiratory Carbon Losses in Two Maize Inbred Lines and Their F1 Hybrid.
Hugh J. Earl, University of Guelph; Javier Antonio Di Matteo, INTA Balcarce Research Station; Elizabeth A. Lee, University of Guelph

11:35 AM

101-7

Water, Temperature, and Defoliation Effects On Perennial Grassland Respiration.
R. Howard Skinner, USDA-ARS

12:00 PM

Adjourn

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101 Symposium--Crop Respiration - The Other Half of the Carbon Balance

101
Symposium--Crop Respiration - The Other Half of the Carbon Balance