Organizing Committee

• Mark Berhow, USDA, ARS, Peoria, IL
• Franck Dayan, USDA, ARS, Oxford, MS
• Elvira DeMeija, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• David Gang, Washington State University
• Massuo Jorge Kato, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
• Aruna Kilaru, East Tennessee State University
• Dhirendra Kumar, East Tennessee State University
• Argelia Lorence, Arkansas State University
• Susan McCormick, USDA, ARS, Peoria, IL
• Shelly Nickols-Richardson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Dejan Nikolic, University of Illinois at Chicago
• J. Fred Stevens, Oregon State University
• Lloyd Sumner, The Noble Foundation, Ardmore, OK
• Dorothea Tholl, Virginia Technical University
• Li Tian, University of California at Davis
• Deyu Xie, North Carolina State University