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Fall 2007 – Crop Breeding Mini-Courses
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
This fall, the Department of Agronomy and Horticulture at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is pleased to offer three excellent crop breeding mini-courses that will be of interest to individuals involved in the plant breeding and seed industries. Each of these offerings is available for UNL academic credit (one graduate credit each), noncredit professional development or CEU credit. Each course has a traditional "resident" class section on the UNL campus; however, the majority of students in these courses participate via "live" Internet delivery.
For more information visit the website or reach one of the contacts below:
Cathy Dickinson
402-472-1730
cdickinson2@unl.edu
Course Information
Click here to view course information.
We encourage you to veiw the informational videos linked from each course description.
Noncredit or CEU Credit
If you are interested in taking any of the courses for noncredit or CEU credit, you can purchase the registrations online through the ADEC eStore.
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Eurpoean View of Intellectual
Property Rights for the
Protection of Products and Processes of Plant Breeding
Dr. O.M.B. de Ponti
Managing Director R&D Nunza B.V.,
The Netherlands
Orlando de Ponti graduated at the Wageningen University in 1971, discipline
plant breeding. In 1980 he obtained his doctorate with a dissertation
on resistance breeding to insects at the same university.
From 1971 to 1986 he was employed at the Institute for breeding of horticultural
crops (IVT) in Wageningen in respectively functions of Researcher and
Head of the department Vegetable and Fruit.
From 1986 - 1991 he was Director of the Institute for plant diseases
(IPO-DLO) in Wageningen.
In 1991 he switched to the business world in his function of Director
Research of Nunhems Zaden BV, a company which at that time was part of
Hoechst AG. Since 1997 he holds the same function at the Holding Nunza
B.V., which international vegetable seed breeding company is part of Bayer
CropScience AG since 2002.
ASTA-APHIS Workshop Presentations
Presented by American
Seed Trade Association and the
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
Alexandria, VA
November 10, 2004
Click on the following links to download PowerPoint presentations
from the workshop:
• Aerobiological Risk
Analysis for Soybean Rust - Matt Royer
• APHIS-ASTA Meeting
- Michael Ward
• Laboratory Diagnostics
for Plant Pathogens of Regulatory Concern - Phil Berger
• Plant Epidemiology and Risk Analysis Laboratory
(PERAL) - Dick Crowder
• PPQ's Biological and Technical
Services (BTS) - Michael Firko
• Re-Export Certification
- Parul Patel
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