February 20-21
3rd Breeding with Molecular Markers course - Offered by the Seed Biotechnology Center at UC Davis - UC Davis Buehler Alumni Center - Davis, California

March 08

March 17
Plant Breeding in the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities across the Plant Sciences - A symposium - Cargill Center for Microbial and Plant Genomics, St. Paul Campus - St. Paul, Minnesota

March 31 - April 11
Molecular marker applications in crop genetics and breeding - ICRISAT - Patancheru, India

April 08

April 7-18
IAEA-AFRA Regional Training Course on “Basic Molecular Markers and Data Analysis”, RAF/5/056 - Thiès, Senegal

April 7-18
Quantitative Methods in Plant Breeding - The National Institute of Agricultural Botany (NAIB) - Cambridge, United Kingdom
Info: courses@niab.com

May 08

May
National Training Course on Molecular Marker Techniques for Mutant Characterization, VIE/5/015 - Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

May 12-22
Workshop on plant pre-breeding - The Center for Agricultural Biotechnology - Kamphaengsaen Campus, Kasetsart University, Thailand

June 08

June 16-18
2008 Workshop of the U.S. Plant Breeding Coordinating Committee - Des Moines, Iowa

July 08

July 16-18
Development of plant breeding and crop management in time and space - Priekuli, Cesis district, Latvia
Info: priekuli-conference@inbox.lv

August 08

August 24-28
Sixth International Symposium on In Vitro Culture and Horticultural Breeding - Queensland, Australia

September 08

September 2008 - June 2010
Plant Breeding Academy
Offered by the Seed Biotechnology Center at UC Davis, Davis, California

September 11-14
18th EUCARPIA General Congress - Modern Variety Breeding for Present and Future Needs - Universidad Politecnica de Valencia - Valiencia, Spain

October 08

October 11-16
5th Solanacea Genome Workshop 2008 - Cologne, Germany
Jointly organized by the Max-Planck-Institute for Plant Breeding Research (MPIZ) and Phytowelt GreenTechnologies GmbH

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