Sorghum seed development involves complex molecular processes, including tissue-specific gene expression and metabolite accumulation, which are critical for improving grain quality, yield, and climate resilience.
International Symposium on Rice Functional Genomics Conference in Little Rock/Stuttgart Arkansas, Sept 9-11, Abstracts Due June 14
The 2024 International Symposium on Rice Functional Genomics (2024 ISRFG) will be held in Little Rock/Stuttgart Arkansas from September 9-11, 2024. Celebrating the 20-year anniversary of the sequencing of the rice genome, the conference will seek to address the key
AG2PI Virtual Field Day: “Public-Private Partnerships in Education and Commercialization” on July 19, 2023
The Agricultural Genome to Phenome Initiative (AG2PI) is hosting a virtual field day entitled “Public-Private Partnerships in Education and Commercialization,” focused on public-private partnerships in education pertaining to agricultural genomic and phenomic analyses, on July 19th.
SorghumBase release 6 is out with BTx623 v5.1 and over 40 million new SNP and EMS variants
The SorghumBase Team is pleased to announce the sixth release of SorghumBase (https://www.sorghumbase.org) (see release notes #6). The current release includes the assembly version 5.1 of the Sorghum bicolor BTx623 genome from JGI’s Phytozome (restricted by the Ft Lauderdale Accord).
Jocelyn Holt – EEB Faculty Fellow, Rice University
Jocelyn is an evolutionary ecologist and entomologist who analyzes population genetic and microbial composition to understand how this modulates pest insect traits and symbiotic interactions. Related website: holtjocelyn.wixsite.com/ento
Christine Diepenbrock, Assistant Professor, University of California, Davis
Our team is focused on improving crop productivity and nutritional quality simultaneously, including under conditions of drought and/or high temperatures. We do so by measuring plant characteristics in the field and lab, identifying genes related to these characteristics, using DNA
Elizabeth Cooper – Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Related website: Elizcooperlab.com
Andrea Eveland – Principal Investigator, Danforth Plant Science Center
My group investigates gene networks and regulatory variation underlying shoot architecture traits and stress response pathways in cereals, mainly maize and sorghum. We also leverage cutting-edge phenomics methods to link genotype-to-phenotype and ultimately elucidate gene function for crop improvement. Related
Marylou Machingura – Assistant Professor, Georgia Southern University
My research interests are understanding the molecular physiology of drought tolerance in sorghum and investigating the genes that drive resilience in the crop. Related website: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C11&q=marylou+machingura&oq=marylou+m
Davina Rhodes – Assistant Professor, Colorado State University
The mission of my program is to reduce vitamin A deficiency through crop biofortification. I started my nutrition career as a registered dietitian, working with people to treat their nutrition-related disorders. What I came to realize was that we needed