Symposium on Population Genetics and Germplasm Resources in Crop Improvement; Davis, California; August 11-13, 1988

这次关于植物种群遗传学和遗传资源的国际研讨会将首次汇集一批相当令人印象深刻的理论和应用植物遗传学家。植物育种的许多最新发展需要对我们目前对解释植物种群中相当普遍的生化和形态变异的进化过程的知识进行批判性评估。随着新的基因工程技术在植物改良中的应用，需要建立分子育种与传统育种相结合的新的经验和理论基础。共有34场特邀演讲将涵盖变异分析、种群结构统计、定殖物种动态、遗传资源和一些分子动态话题。在这次研讨会上，来自所有这些不同领域的植物生物学家将有望发现新的方法来研究变异、基因重组、适应和作物发展潜力。

This international symposium on plant population genetics and genetic resources will bring together for the first time a rather impressive array of theoretical and applied plant geneticists. Many recent developments in plant breeding require a critical appraisal of our current knowledge of evolutionary processes which account for the rather ubiquitous biochemical and morphological variation in plant populations. As new genetic engineering approaches for plant improvement come into use, a new empirical and theoretical basis on which to combine the molecular and classical breeding methods is needed. A total of 34 invited talks will cover topics of variation assays, statistics of population structure, dynamics of colonizing species, genetic resources, and some molecular current topics. At this symposium, plant biologists from all these different fields will hopefully discover new ways of looking at variation, genetic recombination, adaptation, and crop development potentials.