2008年国际棉花基因组研究大会于7月9—11日在河南安阳召开,来自中国、美国、印度、澳大利亚、法国、巴西、巴基斯坦、比利时等12个国家的260余名专家学者出席了大会。会议由中国农业科学院棉花研究所(以下简称中棉所)承办,开幕式由本次大会执委会主任、中棉所副所长王坤波与国 More than 260 experts and scholars from 12 countries and regions including China, the United States, India, Australia, France, Brazil, Pakistan and Belgium attended the 2008 International Cotton Genome Research Conference held in Anyang, Henan from July 9 to 11. The meeting was hosted by the Cotton Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (hereinafter referred to as the CIMC). The opening ceremony was presided over by the executive committee director of the conference, Wang Kunbo, deputy director of the CIMC,