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Through recent industry- and government-sponsored initiatives, plant scientists are developing novel tools and techniques to address fundamental questions in plant biology. In our lab, research is underway to use maize transposable elements ("jumping genes") to create mutations and clone genes throughout the maize genome (see NSF web site). These lines will be a resource for the maize genetics community and will allow researchers to "knock-out" or disrupt any mapped gene or EST in the maize genome. The primary targets for our lab are genes involved in light signal transduction pathways. We have identified a number of transposon-induced alleles of maize phytochrome genes and have started a phenotypic characterization of these plants Current Projects |
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