Renata Reinheimer

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Project description: Correlation of expression of OsMADS1 with spikelet morphology and sex expression patterns in multiple grasses.

Award: Graduate student training grant

Advisors: Fernando Zuloaga, Instituto de Botanica Darwinion; Abelardo C. Vegetti, Universidad Nacional del Litoral.

Host P.I.: Elizabeth A. (Toby) Kellogg, University of Missouri, St. Louis

 

Tanya Rehse

Project title: Evolution of staminode development and the ABC model revisited in Zingiberalean monocots.

Award: Graduate student training grant

Advisor: Gregory Wray, Duke University

Host P.I.: Elena Kramer, Harvard University

 

Hilary Callahan

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Project title: Vernalization-induced plasticity costs in Arabidopsis.

Award: Assistant professor training grant

Host P.I.: Mark Ungerer, Kansas State University

Resulting publication: Hilary S. Callahan, Natalie Dhanoolal, and Mark C. Ungerer. 2005. Plasticity genes and plasticity costs: a new approach using an Arabidopsis recombinant inbred population. New Phytologist 166(1): 129-139. abstract | full text article | article in pdf format

 

Barbara Gravendeel

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Project title: Identification of APETALA, PISTILLATA and AGAMOUS MADS-Box genes controlling petal and stamen development in orchids - the genetic origin of stelidia.

Award: Postdoctoral training grant

Advisor: P. Baas, Nationaal Herbarium Nederland

Host P.I.: Elena Kramer, Harvard University