bjsteffenson

University of Minnesota cereal pathologist interested in crop wild relatives

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Open position in bioinformatics aimed at understanding molecular mechanisms of virulence/avirulence in cereal rust fungi. For info see: https://t.co/ohvHUaCBQh

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A Gown for U: University of Minnesota students saved local hospitals from running out of PPE. https://t.co/xNkWov6Gj1

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Will we have “American” chestnuts roasting on an open fire again? Renewed hope with new technology https://t.co/Ud70dJhFrG

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A mystery solved: Somatic fusion and a nucleus swap spawns deadly wheat stem rust pathogen strain Ug99
https://t.co/9oomyidjUJ https://t.co/Dr5wi4YDzk

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Graduate students tour the Norman Borlaug childhood farm on way to the World Food Prize

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Happy Robigalia! This is the day when the ancient Romans held a festival on the via Claudia in Rome to appease the rust god from sending the rust scourge onto the crop

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New successes in developing wheat lines with resistance gene cassettes

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Wheat Lines From 2Blades, CSIRO, and UMN Exhibit Exceptional Stem Rust Resistance in the Field https://t.co/3UNV09YMgb

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Wheat Lines From 2Blades, CSIRO, and UMN Exhibit Exceptional Stem Rust Resistance in the Field https://t.co/3UNV09YMgb

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Now at John Innes Centre working on cloning resistance genes from wild barley using AgRenSeq: https://t.co/n5IwNAKxOb

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A more efficient protocol (Association Genetics Resistance Gene Enrichment Sequencing) for cloning not just one but potentially the entire complement of resistance genes in a given plant species was just published in Nature Biotechnology 37:139–143.

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Great discussions on GMO crops @ Chicago Council on Science & Technology after screening of Food Evolution