The C. purpureus R40 lab isolate expressing dsRED from a transgene targeted to its sex chromosome. Because R40 is male, only male progeny will inherit the transgene in crosses to this line. This not lnly provides a tool to rapidly screen the sex ratio of experimental crosses but also demonstrates that gene targeting via homologous recombination functions in […]
Alex Powell graduated with highest honors with a project on genetic variation in response to non-circadian conditions in Physcomitrella patens. Shawn Abrahams was awarded a PLANTS fellowship to attend Botany2013 in New Orleans this summer, and a 2013-2014 University Scholars Program fellowship to study the genetics of life history variation in Ceratodon purpureus in the […]
At least eight genes have been captured by the non-recombining portion of the Ceratodon sex chromosomes in the recent history of the species.