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Register for TAGC by April 17 to receive the advance registration discount.
TAGC is a unique conference designed to foster collaboration and inspire fresh thinking. Join your colleagues, along with the C. elegans, Mouse, Drosophila, PEQG, and Yeast, Xenopus, and Zebrafish research communities—and those researching humans, plants, and agricultural species.
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GSA awards 2020 Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal to Gerald Fink and David Botstein
For more than 50 years, Gerald Fink of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and David Botstein of Calico Life Sciences have made unique, and sometimes intersecting, contributions to genetics. Together they taught an advanced genetics course at MIT for more than a decade; they’ve co-authored a series of perspective papers and patents. Each has mentored dozens […]
Genomic Outcomes of Haploid Induction Crosses in Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) [Genome Integrity and Transmission]
The challenges of breeding autotetraploid potato (Solanum tuberosum) have motivated the development of alternative breeding strategies. A common approach is to obtain uniparental dihaploids from a tetraploid of interest through pollination with S. tuberosum Andigenum Group (formerly S. phureja) cultivars. The mechanism underlying haploid formation of these crosses is unclear, and questions regarding the frequency of paternal DNA transmission remain. Previous reports have described aneuploid and euploid progeny that, in some cases, displayed genetic markers...
Genetic Analysis of the Transition from Wild to Domesticated Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.)
The evolution and domestication of cotton is of great interest from both economic and evolutionary standpoints. Although many genetic and genomic resources have been generated for cotton, the genetic underpinnings of the transition from wild to domesticated cotton remain poorly known. Here we generated an intraspecific QTL mapping population specifically targeting domesticated cotton phenotypes. We used 466 F2 individuals derived from an intraspecific cross between the wild Gossypium hirsutum var. yucatanense (TX2094) and the elite...
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