One of the largest scale maize genotyping projects ever attempted in the public sector: 46 million SNPs and InDels scored across more than 1,500 maize inbreds, traditional varieties, and wild relatives from six continents. Out now in The Plant Journal. https://t.co/aYs5EjjiPF
Our preprint describing a new model for the origin of #corn just dropped today.
Preprint is here: https://t.co/qIJrMl9Yvv
And a (sort of) brief thread can be found here: https://t.co/IX6RHMhvxr
We would have accomplished nothing without our talented @unlagrohort students. n=2,000 plots manually harvested in two days! Great teamwork @MusaUlutas10 @AgronomistYd @GenXu1@zhikai16 Kahheetah! And Eric and Jenifer (not in the photo)!
Hope this @ENERGY project will enable us to understand the N responsive genes one step closer. Lucky that I have a strong team to work with ---@TEClemente1, @szintri, Yufeng, @liu3zhen, and colleagues @hudsonalpha.
https://t.co/pXmwMxTmha
Our latest study led by @unlagrohort grad student Semra @spalalidelen and our super postdoc @GenXu1 estimated the genetic parameters for nitrogen-related traits. And found that N-response to yield is highly polygenetic and likely under selection. @NE_CRRI
https://t.co/3FiSRWQmOg
Years of root digging finally pays off! Congratulations to the incredible and hardworking colleagues who co-authored or on the acknowledgment of this newly accepted paper (https://t.co/AcGnINLIUG) by @eLife. @NE_CRRI@UNL_PSI@unlagrohort@NebraskaEPSCoR
Our mediation analysis paper led by talented student @zhikai16 is out! Mediation analysis is complementary to #GWAS, #TWAS, and #eQTL. It assumes a causal chain: SNP -> intermediate phenotype -> phenotype.
full-access via lab website (https://t.co/t9ER0WEUrS). @UNL_PSI@NE_CRRI
Part of the J. Yang Lab at the #MGM2022. Always an enjoyable experience spending days with enthusiastic maize geneticists. See you next year at St. Louis Union Station.
Very happy to share a wonderful collaboration with colleagues in Beijing, Wuhan and Germany on identification of a previously undescribed WD40 gene as a QTL for grain number and yield in maize. The same gene was also selected in rice https://t.co/l986HKdILM.
Thrilled to share our recent work posted on bioRxiv (https://t.co/Jz5FfaTFIX) that @GenXu1 and collaborators have been working on for years. Thanks @UNL_PSI@NE_CRRI@NebraskaEPSCoR
Briefly, we found an nitrogen-associated locus under balancing selection. 1/2
1/2) New preprint from the lab (https://t.co/i3wnvxqBlZ). A talented Ph.D. student, Zhikai, used the genome-wide mediation analysis to identify hundreds of mediating genes to connect genotype to phenotype.
Our recent study, led by our @unlagrohort PostDoc Gen Xu (@GenXu1), has finally come out online. Thanks for the incredible efforts of our coauthors! In this study, we investigated the maize epigenetic patterns (1/2) ...
https://t.co/xmPqELdSPm