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Below are the links for the Proceedings to the 8th Canadian Pulse Research Workshop.  Thank you to all of the contributors for the two-page summaries of their research. 

8th CPRW Oral Presentations

8th CPRW Posters

8:30 AM	Keynote Speaker Sabine Banniza	Limiting legions of leguminous lesions - pulse pathology research in the Canadian Prairies.
9:15 AM	Chris Gillard	New IPM strategies to control dry bean anthracnose.
9:35 AM	Michael Harding	Oxidized forms of silver as a novel disease management tool for pulse crops.
9:55 AM	Ambuj Jha	Utilization of improved ascochyta blight resistance from wild pea germplasm.
10:35 AM	Jianfeng Liu*	Genetic diversity of pea downy mildew, Peronospora viciae f.sp. pisi in Alberta, Canada.
10:55 AM	Robyne Bowness*	Baseline sensitivity of Mycosphaerella pinodes to pyraclostobin fungicide.
11:15 AM	Jennifer Menat*	Lentil anthracnose: Investigating the mating system of Colletotrichum truncatum (Schwein).
11:35 AM	Bruce Gossen	Sensitivity of Ascochyta rabiei to strobilurins and other foliar fungicides in western Canada

1:15 PM	Keynote Speaker Brian McConkey	Soil organic carbon as a measure of sustainable crop production.
2:00 PM	Frank Larney	Wide-row vs. narrow-row production of dry beans in the Vauxhall irrigated rotation study.
2:20 PM	Yantai Gan	Carbon footprints and annual pulses on the Canadian prairie.
2:40 PM	Tony Yang*	Pyrosequencing analysis of chickpea rhizospheric bacterial diversity as influenced by fungicide application.
3:20 PM	Rosalind Bueckert	Nitrogen fixation and supply in faba.
3:40 PM	Hossein Zakeri*	Lentil production under varied N regimes and no-till duration in Saskatchewan.
4:00 PM	Dawn Trautman Laslop*	Economic costs and benefits of BMP adoption on commercial cropping operations in Alberta.

8:00 AM	Keynote Speaker Joyce Boye	Innovative approaches to enhance the use of pulse crops in food, health and industrial applications.
8:45 AM	Yulia Borsuk*	Incorporation of pulse flours (green lentils, navy beans, yellow peas, and pinto beans) of different particle size into pita bread.
9:05 AM	Zhen Ma*	Microstructure, stability and rheological properties of salad dressing-type emulsions supplemented with pulse flours.
9:25 AM	Laura Sawyer	Innovative coatings: Evaluation of pea starch and pea starch/fibre/flour blends in batter, pre-dust and glaze coatings.
9:45 AM	Mary-Lou Swift	Feeding value of peas for swine and poultry - results of feed evaluation/NIRS project.

10:45 AM	Tamira Delgerjav*	Genotype by environment analysis of the performance of two low phytate pea lines.
11:05 AM	Sarita Khanal*	Quantitative trait loci analysis of folate content in common beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.).
11:25 AM	Bert Vandenberg	Genetic improvement of lentil in Canada - the next 10 years.

1:15 PM	Keynote Speaker Maurice Bennink	Health benefits associated with consumption of dry beans and other pulses.
2:00 PM	Gord Zello	Consumption of a pulse-based diet reduces cardiovascular disease risk factors in older adults.
2:20 PM	Alena Jin*	Identification, quantification and localization of proanthocyanidins in pea seed coats.
2:40 PM	Chris Smith*	Isolated yellow pea protein, but not fibre, supresses short-term energy intake and postprandial glycemia in young healthy males.
3:20 PM	Alfonso Clemente	Exploiting natural variation in legume Bowman-Birk inhibitors to dissect their potential role in human health-promoting programmes.
3:40 PM	Bohdan L. Luhovyy	The effect of pulses on satiation, glycemia and food intake.
4:00 PM	Dil Thavarjah	North Dakota State University pulse quality program - a potential whole food solution to the global human malnutrition.

8:00 AM	Keynote Speaker Hans-Jörg Jacobsen	Present status and prospects of transgenic grain legumes.
8:45 AM	Kirstin Bett	Leveraging legume genomic resources for lentil genetic improvement.
9:05 AM	Andrew Sharpe	454 Transcript profiling for SNP discovery in pulse crops.
9:25 AM	Greg Perry	Sequence comparison of the major resistance QTLs for common bacterial blight in OAC-Rex and HR67.
9:45 AM	Chun (Marcus) Shi	Association mapping of common bacterial blight resistance QTL in Ontario bean breeding populations.
10:25 AM	Deng-Jin Bing	Investigation of relationships of yield, seed size, seed protein and starch content and development of varieties with improved protein content of field pea (Pisum sativum L).
10:45 AM	Bunyamin Taran	Interaction of herbicide applications with reaction to ascochyta blight and phenology of several chickpea varieties.
11:05 AM	Aziz Rehman	Improving chickpea productivity under drought using physiological and molecular approaches.