Visiting scholars Dr. Ignacio Maldonado-Mendoza and Dr. Melina Lopez-Meyer from The National Polytechnic Institute (IPN) in Guasave, Sinaloa in Mexico have chosen to spend their one-year sabbatical at BTI.
This study pinpoints regions of the tomato genome where extra DNA has hitchhiked along with desirable DNA; regions breeders can now target for crop improvement.
BTI Scientist Successfully Applied Precision Genome Editing in Tomato. In the new system, called CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing, targeted changes are made in the desired region of the genome.
BTI professors David Stern, Zhangjun Fei, and Lukas Mueller were able to brief Bill Gates and his team on their Gates funded projects and issues of biotechnology and plant science while he was at Cornell on October 1, 2014.
Graham Thiele, RTB Program Director at CGIAR Research Program on roots, tubers, and bananas recently met with Boyce Thompson Institute’s Lukas Mueller to plan expansion of bioinformatics platforms and databases.
Jocelyn Rose, professor of plant biology and director of Cornell’s Institute of Biotechnology, with BTI co-PI’s Carmen Catala, Zhangjun Fei, James Giovannoni, and Lukas Mueller will research ripening mechanisms & drought tolerance.
Schroeder’s lab works to discover new small molecules and identify their structure and function in the context of aging. “We know everything we see will be unknown, pure discovery…It’s pretty intense. We get to the bottom of things.”
CRWN proteins alter nuclear organization, which affects plant viability.
Fei and Giovannoni Labs contribute to sequencing of wild tomato species Solanum pennellii.
Research to improve feedstock that produces bioenergy.
The “High Five” insect cell line made the Cervarix HPV vaccine possible, contributing to better human health.
Mueller Lab at BTI coordinates Cassavabase web site to pool data from cassava field trials in Africa to improve plant breeding.
This Nicotiana benthamiana web site shares papers, results, tools, protocols, and other materials from researchers using NB as a study plant.
The entire California citrus industry is counting on Cornell vector biologist Michelle Cilia to quickly come up with a solution to stop the spread of a deadly disease that could decimate domestic citrus production.
This Nicotiana benthamiana web site shares papers, results, tools, protocols, and other materials from researchers using Nb as a study plant.
(From Cornell Chronicle) Boyce Thompson Institute and Cornell researchers have identified a plant protein called DELLA that may lead to reducing phosphorus-fertilizer applications on farms and better plant growth in poor soil.
BTI invited public to learn more about BTI’s role in recent sequencing of coffee genome, plus presentations by other Cornell researchers from diverse fields who study coffee.
The genome of an experimentally important relative of tobacco has been sequenced by US and Canadian researchers.
Conventional wisdom holds that genes determine the morphology of animals, but something else iwormmay be at play. Frank Schroeder from the Boyce Thompson Institute at Cornell University and Ralf Sommer from the Max-Planck Institute in Germany now rep.
Cassava, a rough and ready root crop that has long been the foundation of food security in Africa is finally getting the respect it deserves.
Are juicier, sweeter, more disease-resistant watermelons on the way?
The science of how and why plant roots get their shape, it turns out, is a twisted tale.
The genome of an experimentally important relative of tobacco has been sequenced by US and Canadian researchers.
By identifying the proteins which bind the plant hormone salicylic acid and potentially mediate its myriad physiological effects, Dr Daniel Klessig is unravelling the complex roles these hormones play in abiotic and biotic plant stresses.
For the first time, the genome of the tomato, Solanum lycopersicum, has been decoded.
All of these nematodes speak the same chemical language,” through the use of compounds called ascarosides, said study co-author Frank Schroeder.
BTI Scientist Georg Jander to work with Cornell University’s Angela Douglas to study the effects of sugar on insects, to control pests on plants.
Most flowering plants form symbiotic associations with soil fungi to gain additional access to phosphate from the soil.
Scientists at the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research (BTI) released a draft sequence of the Nicotiana benthamiana genome which is accessible through the SGN BLAST tool and can be downloaded from an ftp site.
BTI scientists have released a draft sequence of the Nicotiana benthamiana genome.
BTI scientists have released a draft sequence of the Nicotiana benthamiana genome.
Scientists have discovered that a species of small, transparent roundworms called Caenorhabditis elegans possess a highly-evolved language in which they combine chemical fragments to create precise molecular messages.
Frank Schroeder’s group recently published manuscript describes the use of an MS/MS-based screen to investigate a class of signaling molecules recently identified in the model organism C. elegans.
Research published by Greg Martin in the journal Cell Host & Microbe presents clear evidence of a molecular arms race or coevolution between a host plant and a pathogen.
Up to 30 percent of agricultural productivity is lost to insects and disease.
Dr. Jander’s work identifies the nonprotein amino acid N?-acetylornithine and an acetyltransferase that synthesizes it in Arabidopsis thaliana, thus revealing a new methyl jasmonate-inducible defense response.
Dr. Popescu’s study finds that two reticulon proteins modulate the transport of an immune receptor to the cell membrane.
Receptors in the plasma membrane of plant cells are critical for recognizing pathogens, but how they get there is poorly understood. Dr.Sorina Popescu’s research could help.
Dr. Lisa Meihls of Georg Jander’s lab was awarded a $130,000 USDA/NIFA grant to study molecular mechanisms of resistance to Bacillus thuringiensis Cry3Bb1 toxin in Diabrotica virgifera (western corn root worm).
Salmonella bacteria cause 1.4 million cases of food poisoning in the United States each year.
If your building has 10 false fire alarms one morning, it is human nature to ignore it when it goes off for the 11th time.
Scientists have been working for more than a decade to understand how tiny molecules called microRNA regulate genes within cells. Now researchers have discovered that microRNA actually moves between cells to help them communicate.
Research associate Suma Chakravarthy from Greg Martin’s lab, shows the procedure Assay for Pathogen-Associated Molecular Pattern (PAMP)-Triggered Immunity (PTI) in Plants in a JOVE publication.
Graduate student André Velásquez from Greg Martin’s lab shows how to do Virus-induced Gene Silencing (VIGS) in Nicotiana benthamiana and Tomato in a JOVE publication.
Graduate student André Velásquez from Greg Martin’s lab shows how to do Virus-induced Gene Silencing (VIGS) in Nicotiana benthamiana and Tomato in a JOVE publication.
A group of scientists who set out to study sex pheromones in a tiny worm found that the same family of pheromones also controls a stage in the worms’ life cycle, the long-lived dauer larva.
A study has identified a hormone from human urine, a xanthurenic-acid derivative, which might help safely flush sodium out of the body and could be harnessed to develop more effective and safer treatments for high blood pressure, or hypertension.
BTI scientists present microarray expression profiles of a high-resolution set of developmental time points within a single Arabidopsis root and a comprehensive map of nearly all root cell types.
