Economic/Academic importance
Gebisa Ejeta
The botany and taxonomy of Sorghum
A Ashok Kumar (Alternative: Dr Sally Norton)
Cytological details of genome
S Rakshit
Molecular mapping of genes & QTLs
WL Rooney (Alternative: Alex Feltus; Clemson)
Positional cloning of important stress adaptation genes
J Magalhaes
Structural & functional genomic resources developed
S Deshpande (Alternative: Ming Li Wang)
Progress on whole-genome sequencing
Bradley C Campbell
Background history of the national and international genome initiatives, public and private partners involved
A Paterson (Tentative only)
Software for genome assembly and annotation
Shuaishuai Tai
Population genomics tools
Celine Frere
Synteny with allied & model genomes
P Rajendrakumar
Genomics approaches to abiotic stress resistance
Marc Knight
Genomics approaches to biotic stress resistance
Emma Mace (Alternative: Guoqing Liu)
Genomics approaches to improved quality
Ian Godwin
Community resources for molecular breeding
Tushar Shah
Impact on germplasm characterization & gene discovery
John E. Erpelding
Impact on plant breeding
Gary Peterson
Future prospects
Ian D Godwin and S Rakshit.