Our manuscript about cloning of a broadly effective leaf rust resistance gene (Lr42) was accepted by Nature Communications. Here is the manuscript.
Congrats to the team and collaborators for the acceptation of the A188 genome manuscript by Genome Biology (June 2021).
We are thrilled to have new funding supports from both NSF and USDA NIFA to study the genomic dynamics, function, and evolution of mini-chromosomes in multiple species of the fungal genus Magnaporthe oryzae (June 2021).
Guifang Lin had a successful final defense on 3/30/2021. Congratulations!!! She will stay in the lab to work on our wheat blast project and the maize regeneration project as a postdoc.
The KAD manuscript was published at NAR GAB, which uses k-mer profiling to effectively identify and locate base errors of genome assemblies. The KAD package can be found on Github. Use & feedback is appreciated.
Guifang Lin passed her preliminary exam on 4/8/2020. This is an important step toward her PhD. Congratulations!
We identified and verified two maize glossy genes with the information of gene co-expression networks. The manuscript was accepted by the Plant Journal.
We are honored to receive the NSF PGRP award to work on maize transformation. Here is news from K-State.
New manuscript with Schnable labs in Molecular Biology and Evolution: Intragenic Meiotic Crossovers Generate Novel Alleles with Transgressive Expression Levels.
Exciting News: NIFA is funding, through NSF/NIFA Plant Biotic Interactions Program, our 3-year project to genetically dissect bacterial virulence and host resistance of maize Goss’s wilt.
Our latest publication using XP-CNV to discover disease associated genes: Analysis of Extreme Phenotype Bulk Copy Number Variation (XP-CNV) Identified the Association of rp1 with Resistance to Goss’s Wilt of Maize.
A new genotyping solution: tGBS® genotyping-by-sequencing enables reliable genotyping of heterozygous loci.
Our K-mer study to characterize genomes: A K-mer method for comparative genomics and genetic mapping of copy number variation: Unbiased K-mer Analysis Reveals Changes in Copy Number of Highly Repetitive Sequences During Maize Domestication and Improvement.
Congratulations to Dr. Yanhai Yin who led the Rd26 work: RD26 mediates crosstalk between drought and brassinosteroid signalling pathway