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Thomas Klak, Steven E. Travis, Virginia Grace May…·Miranda Wheeler
A two-year field trial of genetically engineered American chestnut trees shows greater blight tolerance compared to non-transgenic siblings and Chinese chestnut controls.
Sapphire Coronejo, Brieanne Vaillancourt, John P. Hamilton…·Laura M. Shannon
The paper develops a resource of 97 dihaploid potato clones to aid diploid breeding, identifies diversity in the maturity locus, and highlights structural genomic variation.
Thomas Klak, Hannah C. Pilkey, Virginia Grace May…·Andrew E. Newhouse
This paper develops methods to rapidly produce homozygous transgenic American chestnut trees in controlled environments, enabling efficient breeding and restoration.
Kirk Amundson, Benny Ordoñez, Monica Santayana…·Luca Comai
The paper investigates genomic outcomes of haploid induction crosses in potato, finding most dihaploids lack residual pollinator DNA and showing chromosomal addition and dosage variation.
Peter G. Lynagh, Soichi Inagaki, Kirk Amundson…·Luca Comai
This study shows CRISPR-Cas9 in Arabidopsis can induce duplication and translocation through nonhomologous recombination of distant DNA breaks.