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Long-term Sabbatical
Creating an evolutionary dataspace for plants: allowing phylogenetic, morphological and gene ontologies to collide gracefully
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| PI(s): |
Quentin Cronk (University of British Columbia) |
| Start Date: |
1-Sep-2005 |
| End Date: |
31-Aug-2006 |
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How is it that a rice plant looks so different from a cottonwood tree when they both descend, ultimately, from a common ancestor? Plant evodevo is the branch of study that seeks to explain plant morphology by understanding the evolutionary diversification of developmental pathways and the changing function of their underlying genes. Evo-devo therefore requires the synthesis of comparative genomics, phylogenetics and developmental morphology. All three subjects have a large and growing body of information and each presents unique databasing challenges in order to make the facts available to researchers in maximally informative ways. The aim of this project is to tackle those challenges.
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Publications
- Cronk, Q. (2009) The Molecular Organography of Plants. Oxford University Press.
- The genome of black cottonwood, Populus trichocarpa (Torr. & Gray) Tuskan, G., Q. Cronk, et al. (2006). The genome of black cottonwood, Populus trichocarpa (Torr. & Gray). Science 313(5793): 1596-1604.
- An apparent reversal in floral symmetry in the legume Cadia is a homeotic transformation Citerne, H.L., R.T. Pennington, and Q.C. Cronk (2006). An apparent reversal in floral symmetry in the legume Cadia is a homeotic transformation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 103(32): 12017-12020.
- Legume flowers bear fruit Cronk, Q.C. (2006). Legume flowers bear fruit. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 103(13): 4801-4802.
- Use of Ecotilling as an efficient SNP discovery tool to survey genetic variation in wild populations of Populus trichocarpa Gilchrist, E.J., G.W. Haughn, C.C. Ying, et al. (2006). Use of Ecotilling as an efficient SNP discovery tool to survey genetic variation in wild populations of Populus trichocarpa. Molecular Ecology 15(5): 1367-1378.
- Legume comparative genomics: progress in phylogenetics and phylogenomics Cronk, Q.C., I. Ojeda, and R.T. Pennington (2006). Legume comparative genomics: progress in phylogenetics and phylogenomics. Curr Opin Plant Biol. 9(2):99-103.
