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Alumni Update – It’s a Boy!
Shanshan Yang, a former postdoc on the VitisGen1 genetics team, is proud to announce the birth of her baby boy, Ryan, on June 5th! Shanshan is currently the Bioinformatics Core Manager at the Biodesign Institute of Arizona State University. Congratulations, … Continue reading
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Tagged Announcements, Shanshan Yang, VitisGen2
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Why the World’s Most Popular Wine Grapes Are Vulnerable to a Pandemic
An article by Jen Pinkowski in Mental Floss discusses the lack of genetic diversity in the most commonly cultivated V. vinifera grapes. “The vast majority of wine produced across the world derives from a single grapevine species: Vitis vinifera. The … Continue reading
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Tagged grape diversity, grape genetics, Jen Pinkowski, Mental Floss, Viewpoint, Vitis vinifera
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The Quest to Grow the First Great American Wine Grape
An article by Kevin Begos in the Smithsonian Magazine features the VitisGen2 project. “VitisGen is a project that aims to do for wine what the Human Genome Project did for humans. That is: use the vast power and rapidly declining … Continue reading
Tagged grape breeding, Kevin Begos, Laise Moreira, Smithsonian Magazine, Viewpoint, VitisGen2
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Molecular Changes in Vitis vinifera Associated with the Onset of Pierce’s Disease
A new publication out of UC Davis, co-authored by VitisGen2 genetics team member, Dario Cantu, investigated molecular changes in vines infected by Pierce’s disease. The bacterial disease is of major concern because it is vectored by a ubiquitous insect, the … Continue reading
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Tagged Dario Cantu, glassy winged sharpshooter, grape breeding, grape molecular markers, Pierce's Disease, UC Davis, VitisGen2
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Webinar – Automated Evaluation of Grape Breeding Progeny to Reduce the Phenotyping Bottleneck
April 19th 2018, 2pm EST – Automated Evaluation of Grape Breeding Progeny to Reduce the Phenotyping Bottleneck – watch recording While genetic information is becoming inexpensive, measuring attributes of interest such as disease resistance or cluster architecture has been a … Continue reading
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Tagged Anna Underhill, grape cluster architecture, grape disease resistance, grape genetics, grape mapping populations, Lance Cadle-Davidson, Rachel Naegele, VitisGen2
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Grape Breeders No Longer Flying Blind
Wines & Vines, March 2018 issue By Tim Martinson “For grape breeders and geneticists, the previous trickle of scarce genetic knowledge has turned into a flood of DNA sequence information. For the first time, there is enough sequence information to … Continue reading
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Tagged grape breeding, grape genetics, grape genome, Quantitative Trait Locus, Tim Martinson, Wines and Vines
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