Drs. Mearaj Shaikh and Josh Widhalm published a paper with Dr. Mike Mickelbart and HLA alum Dr. Chan Yul Yoo in Plant Direct titled “Transcriptional repression of GTL1 under water-deficit stress promotes anthocyanin biosynthesis to enhance drought tolerance.” Dr. Yoo received his PhD in 2011 working with Dr. Mike Hasegawa. He is currently an assistant professor of biology[Read More…]
Dr. Ying Li and Dr. Jing Gao’s (associate professor in the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the College of Engineering) project “Decoding the Intergenic Regulatory Information in Crop Genomes to Enhance Genetic Improvement of Agricultural Traits” was one of seven to be awarded the Institute for Physical Artificial Intelligence (IPAI) Postdoctoral[Read More…]
Purdue team develops fast-track process for genetic improvement of plant traits Web-based tool for plant biologists to discover regulators for their trait-of-interest Kranthi Varala, and 9 co-authors from HLA, published the details of the new web-based regulatory gene discovery tool in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Varala has a patent pending on[Read More…]