BTI Scientist Talks about Sequencing Solanaceae Genome
October 29, 2014| |
Dr. Lukas Mueller, Associate Scientist of the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research (BTI) in Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, presented accomplishments in the SOL Genomics Network (http://solgenomics.net/), particularly in sequencing various species of fruits of the Solanaceae family (i.e. tomatoes), in his talk "Putting Solanaceae Genomes to work" for Agriculture and Development Seminar Series (ADSS) of the Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA) on October 16, 2014. Their sequencing efforts include those on Nicotiana benthamiana, Solanum galapagense, and Solanum chilense. He also discussed comparative genomics in different Solanaceae species and the use of VIGS (virus induced gene slicing) technology.
The seminar was attended by 115 students, faculty, researchers, scientists and other R&D constituents from the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) and other R&D institutes in Los Baños, Laguna. It was organized by SEARCA and the Philippine Genome Center - Agriculture Program.
For more information about the seminar, contact bic@agri.searca.org.
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