Economic/Academic importance.- C. Hart, Iowa State University, USA Botanical and Cytological Aspects.- R. Singh, University of Illinois, USA Classical and Molecular Genetic Mapping.- Q. Song & P. Cregan, USDA-ARS, USA. Genomic libraries & tilling and genetic resources.- K. Meksem, Southern Illinois University, USA Whole-Genome Sequencing, Assembly and Annotation And G-Browser.- T. Joshi, D. Xu, V. Babu, H. Nguyen, University of Missouri, USA; Suk-ha Lee, Seoul National University, South Korea Functional Genomics & Resources.- S. Whitham, Iowa State University, USA Soybean Data Bases.- D. Grant and R. Nelson, Iowa State University, USA Structural Genomics, Repetitive Sequences and Genome Duplication.- B. Stupar, University of Minnesota, USA Transposons.- J. Ma, Purdue University, USA Synteny With Allied and Model Genomes- J. Schlueter, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA. Transposon-tagging and positional cloning.- D. Sandhu, University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point and M.K. Bhattacharyya, Iowa State University, USA Impact On Germplasm Sequencing, GWAS and Gene Discovery.- Xin Liu, BGI, China; V. Babu, Dan Qiu, Rupesh Deshmukh, H. Nguyen, University of Missouri, USA Impact on Plant Breeding.- Z. Li, University of Georgia, USA Future prospects.- H. Nguyen and M.K. Bhattacharyya (USA).
