Sontosh Deb

Postdoc, NC State University

[Sontosh Deb @skdeb13]

@BryTheBotanist You are awesome! 💕

[jmb, phd @jmbrkphd]

“we sequenced the vegetative transcriptomes of 1,124 species that span the diversity of #plants […] we find that large expansions of gene families preceded the origins of green plants, land plants and vascular plants...” #genomics https://t.co/HWlGjOUb9n

[Oxford Nanopore @nanopore]

John Tyson and team have been honing extraction and preparation methods to maximise production of ultra-long reads. Find out more in this webinar: https://t.co/mudo6nJA57 *Community or guest login required

[Science Magazine @ScienceMagazine]

The #genome of wild teosinte—the evolutionary ancestor of modern #maize—has revealed a rare #allele lost to domestication that could be used to increase the crop yields of today’s densely planted maize by altering the angle of the plants leaves. ($) https://t.co/cJa9J5A2Ui

[UA Dept. of BSC @UaDeptBSC]

Congratulations to @mrmckain, co-PI on a $3.8 million EPSCoR grant to study invasive plant genomics!

[Sontosh Deb @skdeb13]

the McKain Lab has arrived #Botany2019 @mrmckain @bmacn93

[Patrick P. Edger @ProteinUniverse]

Super excited to share our new manuscript on the 'Origin and evolution of the octoploid strawberry genome'!! -> https://t.co/kONneEqgD4 Thank you fantastic collaborators including @knapp1955 @bob_vanburen @mrmckain @AndrewDLNelson @SigmaFacto @Childs_Lab @Genome_Guy @josh_puzey

[James Schnable @szintri]

"Corn stalks emit certain organic compounds when they are broken or damaged... The team [from Utah and UNL] will develop low-power sensors that detect when these chemicals are present. They could operate in a cornfield for an entire season without having to change batteries."

[James Schnable @szintri]

Analyzed 260 traits together to find the genes that control phenomic variation in maize. On molecular, popgen, and evolutionary levels these genes are outliers. They look like classical mutants.
https://t.co/xQwDwOEnpw

[Michael McKain @mrmckain]

Both of my grad students have committee meetings today. The excitement is palpable. @bmacn93 @Sontosh_UA