Peggy G. Lemaux | Department of Plant & Microbial Biology | UC Berkeley. The Lemaux laboratory’s focus is on the development and use of genetic engineering and genomic strategies for monocotyledonous species, such as the cereals, wheat (Triticum aestivum), sorghum (Sorghum bicolor), barley (Hordeum vulgare), rice (Oryza sativa), maize (Zea mays) and certain grass species, like Festuca spp., Dactylis glomerata, and Poa pratensis. Our long-term objectives are to transform cereals and grasses to identify gene function, to explore basic biological questions in these species and to use this information to improve crops.
Methods for stably transforming cereal and grass species are more routine today than two decades ago, but challenges still exist. Nearly all methods utilize in vitro-derived tissue culture materials, which leads directly or indirectly to limitations in varieties that can be transformed, to somaclonal variation and to transgene expression instability. between embryogenic and organogenic. Another lab focus relates to functional genomics. Ten Hundred and One Word Challenge People's Choice Voting | EFRC Community Website. Build as Nature Does Using Genius of Biome Report. HOK partnered with Biomimicry 3.8 to study how lessons from the temperate broadleaf forest biome, which houses many of the world’s largest population centers, can inform the design of the built environment.
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