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Latest News Releases

Research reveals a new direction for halting the citrus greening epidemic

by Alexa Schmitz | Mar 26, 2018

New clues to how the bacteria associated with citrus greening infect the only insect that carries them could lead to a way to block the microbes’ spread from tree to tree, according to a study in Infection and Immunity by scientists at Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI) and the Agricultural Research Service (ARS).

New ‘Tomato Expression Atlas’ dives deep into the fruit’s flesh

by Alexa Schmitz | Feb 5, 2018

Researchers at BTI, Cornell and USDA published a spatiotemporal map of gene expression across all tissues and developmental stages of the tomato fruit – the genetic information underlying how a fruit changes from inside to out as it ripens. Their data is available in the new Tomato Expression Atlas (TEA).

Pumpkin genomes sequenced revealing uncommon evolutionary history

by Alexa Schmitz | Oct 29, 2017

For some, pumpkins conjure carved Halloween decorations, but for many people around the world, these gourds provide nutrition. Scientists at Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI) and the National Engineering Research Center for Vegetables in Beijing have sequenced the genomes of two important pumpkin species, Cucurbita maxima and Cucurbita moschata.

BTI’s Mueller Lab and visiting researchers collaborate to improve important crop databases

by Alexa Schmitz | Jul 6, 2017

During June and July at BTI, visiting scholars from crop breeding programs in Nigeria, Nairobi, and Uganda have been working closely with researchers in Lukas Mueller’s group to discuss ways to improve the development of online resources related to two of Africa’s most important staple crops: cassava and banana.

2017 GOBii hackathon helps improve current genomic data management system

by Marissa Zuckerman | Jun 30, 2017

The GOBII project’s annual hackathon united 25 software developers, bioinformaticians, computational biologists, and application specialists on a week-long mission.

Latest Publications

Systemic Acquired Resistance and Salicylic Acid: Past, Present and Future

2018.

Klessig, Daniel F., Choi, H. W., Dempsey, D. A.

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions.

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Predator-secreted sulfolipids induce defensive responses in C. elegans

2018.

Liu, Z., Kariya, M. J., Chute, C. D., Pribadi, A. K., Leinwand, S. G., Tong, A., Curran, K. P., Bose…

Nature Communications.

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Changes in the free amino acid composition of Capsicum annuum (pepper) leaves in response to Myzus persicae (green peach aphid) infestation. A comparison with water stress

2018.

Florencio-Ortiz, V., Sellés-Marchart, S., Zubcoff-Vallejo, J., Jander, Georg, Casas, J. L.

PLOS One.

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Comparative transcriptome analysis reveals networks of genes activated in the whitefly, Bemisia tabaci when fed on tomato plants infected with Tomato yellow leaf curl virus

2018.

Hasegawa, D. K., Chen, W., Zheng, Y., Kaur, N., Wintermantel, W. M., Simmons, A. M., Fei, Zhangjun, …

Virology.

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Admixture, evolution, and variation in reproductive isolation in the Boechera puberula clade

2018.

Schilling, M. P., Gompert, Z., Li, Fay-Wei, Windham, M. D., Wolf, P. G.

BMC Evolutionary Biology.

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