Congratulations to Jenna Hershberger and Ellie Taagen, graduate students in the Field of Plant Breeding selected by the National Association of Plant Breeders (NAPB) as 2020 Borlaug Graduate Scholars. Biographies are courtesy of the ...
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Dear SIPS Community, I want to highlight the #ShutDownSTEM movement happening Wednesday June 10th. SIPS, CALS, Cornell, AAAS and many other scientific societies are supportive of this movement. The short- and long-term plan of ...
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Transfer of Xanthomonas campestris pv. arecae and X. campestris pv. musacearum to X. vasicola (Vauterin) as X. vasicola pv. arecae comb. nov. and X. vasicola pv. musacearum comb. nov. and Description of X. vasicola ...
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Investigating the role of insect-vectored viruses in multi-trophic interactions USDA AFRI-NIFA Postdoctoral Fellowship, $164,996 Chad Nihranz, Casteel lab, SIPS Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section This project will examine the impact of Potato virus ...
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The Evolution of an Invasive Plant, Sorghum halepense L. (‘Johnsongrass’) Paterson, A. H., Kong, W., Johnston, R. M., Nabukalu, P., Wu, G., Poehlman, W. L., Goff, V. H., Isaacs, K., Lee, T.-H., Guo, H., ...
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Robust organ size requires robust timing of initiation orchestrated by focused auxin and cytokinin signalling Zhu, M., Chen, W., Mirabet, V., Hong, L., Bovio, S., Strauss, S., Schwarz, E. M., Tsugawa, S., Wang, Z., ...
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Congratulations to the five SIPS graduate students who receiving CALS Outstanding Teaching Assistant Awards 2020. We are thankful for all of our SIPS TAs and particularly for those who met the heroic challenge of ...
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The Penium margaritaceum Genome: Hallmarks of the Origins of Land Plants. Jiao, C., Sørensen, I., Sun, X., Sun, H., Behar, H., Alseekh, S., Philippe, G., Palacio Lopez, K., Sun, L., Reed, R., Jeon, S., ...
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Do leaf shape and other features correlate with evolutionary relationships in Cycads? What are effective strategies for removing invasive plants when restoring natural areas? Can grapes be gene edited using biolistic transformation? How can ...
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Organic management promotes natural pest control through altered plant resistance to insects. Blundell, R., Schmidt, J. E., Igwe, A., Cheung, A. L., Vannette, R. L., Gaudin, A. C. M., and Casteel, C. L. 2020. ...
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