What Guri Replies to Cliff

Cliff, That would be great if you could cover MAGIC. I can then focus on lesion mimics, disease resistance, defense and interaction of light and with immune responses, and how we're using sucrose transport defective and tie-dyed mutants to tie together immunity, light, sugars and energy status.

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What Cliff Might Present

Cliff: Depending on whether Guri wants to or not, I could do one on MAGIC (he may want to do one on disease response instead...), on TILLING/transposons/mutation discovery or on starch. Which do you think would fit better with what you're thinking of for this workshop. I'm game for any of them.
Torbert: I am wide open, please be prepared to do either, and lets hear what Guri prefers.

Topics Dave may cover

As for my teaching stint, maybe I will talk about the fasciated mutants and seed row number, it will allow me to talk about some basic meristem biology, as well as a potential application in enhanced yield. If you want to get into QTL this might be a good place we could pair up. The outline could be posted as follows:

Making bigger (maize) ears, meristem growth and potential effects on yield.

Plant organs grow from organized groups of stem cells called meristems. Several mutations that affect meristem growth have been described, and some of these in maize cause overgrowth or fasciation of the ears and tassels. We will observe some of these mutants in the field and dissect the ears to count the number of seed rows that the ears make. Interestingly, some of the fasciated genes map to QTL for seed row number, so their allelic diversity may contribute to enhanced maize yields.

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Thanks Dave for the Nice Maps

You can click on these nice maps and they get larger and provide considerable detail. If you look at all of them you can see that we are on a cul de sac. But they were very smart and put walkways in between the cul de sacs. Once I get there, I will post a specific turn landmark.
In general, as you come into Bucerias you go slightly downhill, there will be a dry riverbed that you go over. shortly as you look to your left you will see some palm trees and maybe the church, that is near the town square, it is lower and towards the beach, viewable briefly a glimpse from the main road. The hotel turnoff is a little after this, less than one mile I think. I will give some exact landmarks for turning.
Although it says 10 miles to PV airport, it takes a good 30-35 minutes most of the time.

Info on Hotel

Puerto Vallarta Housing - Corita Hotel and Bungalows
www.suitesyhotelcorita.com
Retorno Playa Del Beso # 4 Fraccionamiento Playas de Huanacaxtle
Bucerias, Nayarit. C.P. 63732
From Mex Hotel: 01 800 503 48 23 From US Tel: 011 52 329 298 10 70
Suites: 01 800 503 20 26 Tel/Fax: 011 52 329 298 04 79

Deatailed Directions to Hotel will be provided.

Go North to Bucerias, go past the lights .....more to come

Possible Field Demo / Lecture

Students will examine leaf mutants in the Hake field. These include diffierent Knotted1 alleles, milkweed pod, Liguleless narrow, Rolled, Gnarley, Wavy auricle in blade and a new dwarf that has not been names. The students will see how each mutant behaves in different inbred backgrounds and how the severity changes throughout the life of the plant. The leaves will be examined to determine if the defect is specific to one part of the leaf, such as blade, ligule or sheath. Cell shapes will be examined with a hand-lens. During the evening, the mutants will be discussed in the framework of other mutants, other species and what is known (if anything) about the gene product. Sarah

Sarah possible demo/lecture

  

Note from Dave on sampling tissue onto membranes so you can ship back without phyto concerns, later can isolate DNA  for PCR

Torb, actually I just googled it and found the info, they are sending me a sample that I will try next week,

http://www.fitzcoinc.com/subproducts/specimencollectioncards.htm

Note from Bob on what he can lecture on: 

Regarding talks in PV, I would be happy to speak about the strategy and value/frustration of suppressor/enhancer screens. The students could then come to the field to see the M1 lines that are being selfed and they can walk some of the M2 families. We will have about 50 M2 families to screen there and I can throw in a few rows from families that have segregated interesting phenotypes so that we have a few "ringers" in case there is nothing obvious in the new M2s.

Future suggestons welcome