Andrew Van Brunt
A5068847153- Oil Palm Production and Sustainability
- Biofuel production and bioconversion
- Chromosomal and Genetic Variations
- Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
- Lipid metabolism and biosynthesis
- Gut microbiota and health
- Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities
- Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis
- Cocoa and Sweet Potato Agronomy
- Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease
- Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research
- Probiotics and Fermented Foods
- Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
- Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
- Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
- Biodiesel Production and Applications
- Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins
- Plant Gene Expression Analysis
Orion Genomics (United States)
2013-2019
Washington University in St. Louis
2005-2007
The adult human intestine contains trillions of bacteria, representing hundreds species and thousands subspecies. Little is known about the selective pressures that have shaped are shaping this community's component species, which dominated by members Bacteroidetes Firmicutes divisions. To examine how intestinal environment affects microbial genome evolution, we sequenced genomes two normal distal gut microbiota, Bacteroides vulgatus distasonis, comparison with few other non-gut...
Oil palm, a plantation crop of major economic importance in Southeast Asia, is the predominant source edible oil worldwide. We report identification VIRESCENS (VIR) gene, which controls fruit exocarp colour and an indicator ripeness. VIR R2R3-MYB transcription factor with homology to Lilium LhMYB12 similarity Arabidopsis PRODUCTION OF ANTHOCYANIN PIGMENT1 (PAP1). identify five independent mutant alleles over 400 accessions from sub-Saharan Africa that account for dominant-negative virescens...
Oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) is the most productive oil bearing crop worldwide. It has three fruit forms, namely dura (thick-shelled), pisifera (shell-less) and tenera (thin-shelled), which are controlled by SHELL gene. The forms exhibit monogenic co-dominant inheritance, where a hybrid obtained crossing maternal paternal palms. Commercial production based on planting thin-shelled palms, typically yield 30% more than while palms female-sterile have little to no yield. clear that hybrids...
The Genetic Analysis Workshop (GAW) 16 Problem 3 comprises simulated phenotypes emulating the lipid domain and its contribution to cardiovascular disease risk. For each replication there were 6,476 subjects in families from Framingham Heart Study (FHS), with their actual genotypes for Affymetrix 550 k single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) phenotypes. Phenotypes are at three visits, 10 years apart. There up 6 "major" genes influencing variation high- low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL,...
Oil palm breeding involves crossing dura and pisifera palms to produce tenera progeny with greatly improved oil yield. yield is controlled by variant alleles of a type II MADS-box gene, SHELL, that impact the presence thickness endocarp, or shell, surrounding fruit kernel. We identified six novel SHELL in noncommercial African germplasm populations from Malaysian Palm Board. These provide extensive diversity harness genetic, mechanistic phenotypic variation associated globally critical crop....
We examine a Bayesian Markov-chain Monte Carlo framework for simultaneous segregation and linkage analysis in the simulated single-nucleotide polymorphism data provided Genetic Analysis Workshop 16. conducted only, association, association only tests under this framework. also compared these results with variance-component regression analyses. The indicate that method shows some promise, but finding genes have very small (<0.1%) contributions to trait variance may require additional sources...