In response to a request from the National Wheat Improvement Committee (NWIC) to include wheat in the 2005 RFP for the USDA-NRI CAP projects on translational genomics, USDA Under-Secretary Joseph Jen suggested that the wheat research community should first organize a national planning effort focused on bringing together a community of plant breeders, genome scientists, end-users, growers, and other experts to identify research needs and discuss the priorities in wheat translational genomics.

The meeting was held in Kansas City, MO., on February 22, 2004 and it served as a previous step towards CAP 2005. You can read a summary of the discussions and recommendations in the final document.

The planning conference was held during August 16-17 2004 in Denver, CO. This conference was funded by a $12,000 USDA grant. The proposal submitted to USDA and the reviewers' comments are available as pdf documents. The objective of the conference was to plan a 2005 Coordinated Agricultural Project (CAP) on wheat translational genomics.

The participants discussed strategies to address the priorities for research, training, education and extension established by growers, public wheat breeders and industry representatives in the preliminary stakeholders' meeting held in Kansas City, MO (see section above). The outcome of this meeting was a scientific plan to address the wheat industry priorities. The final report for the meeting is available as a pdf document.

List and e-mails of participants