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