A5113941029- Genetic and Environmental Crop Studies
- Agricultural pest management studies
- Genetic diversity and population structure
- Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis
- Soybean genetics and cultivation
- Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics
- Genetics and Plant Breeding
- Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
- Seed and Plant Biochemistry
- Plant Pathogens and Resistance
- Plant Gene Expression Analysis
- Nematode management and characterization studies
- Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis
- Biochemical and biochemical processes
- Phase-change materials and chalcogenides
- Plant and animal studies
- Agronomic Practices and Intercropping Systems
- Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity
- Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques
- Plant pathogens and resistance mechanisms
- Plant tissue culture and regeneration
- Data Mining Algorithms and Applications
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Potato Plant Research
- Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
University of Florida
2022-2025
Microsoft Research (United Kingdom)
2024-2025
Tennessee State University
2016-2024
Agricultural Research Service
2023
Virginia Tech
2020-2021
North Carolina State University
2021
U.S. National Arboretum
2019-2021
Qingdao Academy of Agricultural Sciences
2016
Mung bean (Vigna radiata L.) quality is dependent on seed chemical composition, which in turn determines the benefits of its consumption for human health and nutrition. While mung rich a range nutritional components, such as protein, carbohydrates vitamins, it remains less well studied than other legume crops terms micronutrients. In addition, genomics genetic resources are relatively sparse. The objectives this research were three-fold, namely: to develop genome-wide marker system based...
Amid a rapidly growing global population and increasing threats to crop yields, this review focuses on Speed Breeding (SB) in genetics. It traces SB’s development from carbon arc lamp experiments 150 years ago its modern use with LED technology which significantly accelerates breeding cycles. SB has applications genetic mapping, modification, trait stacking, enhancing resilience by leveraging allelic diversity. aligns well methods like single plant selection seed descent. The integration of...
Cowpea is one of the most popular dry-land legumes cultivated for food and forage in arid semi-arid areas. Genetic diversity global germplasm can be organized into core collections providing optimum resources to serve breeding requirements. Here, we present analysis genome-wide association study (GWAS) results part cowpea collection United States Department Agriculture (USDA) along with line controls. Included were a total 373 accessions analyzed 6880 Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP)...
AI clusters today are one of the major uses High Bandwidth Memory (HBM). However, HBM is suboptimal for workloads several reasons. Analysis shows overprovisioned on write performance, but underprovisioned density and read bandwidth, also has significant energy per bit overheads. It expensive, with lower yield than DRAM due to manufacturing complexity. We propose a new memory class: Managed-Retention (MRM), which more optimized store key data structures inference workloads. believe that MRM...
To match the blooming demand of generative AI workloads, GPU designers have so far been trying to pack more and compute memory into single complex expensive packages. However, there is growing uncertainty about scalability individual GPUs thus clusters, as state-of-the-art are already displaying packaging, yield, cooling limitations. We propose rethink design scaling clusters through efficiently-connected large Lite-GPUs, with single, small dies a fraction capabilities larger GPUs. think...
Many key-value stores and database systems use log-structured merge-trees (LSM-trees) as their storage engines because of excellent write performance. However, the read performance LSM-trees is suboptimal due to overlapping sorted runs. Most existing efforts rely on filters reduce unnecessary I/Os, but fundamentally do not help locate items often become bottleneck system. We identify that lack efficient index root cause subpar in LSM-trees. In this paper, we propose Disco: a compact for...
Abstract Background Vanillin is the most abundant volatile compound in natural vanilla extract and primary metabolite from an economic perspective. Natural second expensive spice world profitable crop adapted to warm tropics. Despite its global popularity, mainly cultivated vegetatively propagated clones insufficient modern plant breeding has been achieved. One of objectives increase vanillin concentration cured capsules. The biosynthesis pathway not thoroughly deciphered multiple hypotheses...
The genotyping by sequencing (GBS) method has become a molecular marker technology of choice for many crop plants because its simultaneous discovery and evaluation large number single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) utility germplasm characterization. Genome representation complexity reduction are the basis GBS fingerprinting can vary species based on genome size other sequence characteristics. Grain amaranths set three that were domesticated in New World to be high protein, pseudo-cereal...
Nutrient transport to grain legume seeds is not well studied and can benefit from modern methods of elemental analysis including spectroscopic techniques. Some cations such as potassium (K) magnesium (Mg) are needed for plant physiological purposes. Meanwhile, some minerals copper (Cu), iron (Fe), molybdenum (Mo), zinc (Zn) important micronutrients. Phosphorus (P) rich in legumes, while sulfur (S) concentration related essential amino acids. In this research, the goal was analyze a genetic...
Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L. Walp) is an important grain legume crop of the subtropics, particularly in West Africa, where it contributes to livelihoods small-scale farmers. Despite being a drought-resilient crop, cowpea production hampered by insect pests, diseases, parasitic weeds, and various abiotic stresses. Genetic improvement can help overcome these limitations, exploring diverse genetic resources crucial for breeding. This study evaluated diversity 361 accessions from USDA core...
Abstract Inflorescence type and remontancy are two valuable traits in bigleaf hydrangea ( Hydrangea macrophylla L.) both recessively inherited. Molecular marker-assisted selection (MAS) can greatly reduce the time necessary to breed cultivars with desired traits. In this study, a genome-wide association study (GWAS) using 5803 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) was performed panel of 82 cultivars. One SNP locus Hy_CAPS_Inflo ) associated inflorescence identified general linear model...
Pea ( Pisum sativum L.) is an important food and feed legume grown across many temperate regions of the world, especially from Asia to Europe North America. The goal this study was use 30 informative pea microsatellite markers compare genetic diversity in a global core USDA collection National Genebank China (NGC). Chinese collections had 295 305 accessions, respectively. A total 259 alleles were detected full 600 with mean 8.7 per locus. Given range countries represented, found be more...
Hydrangea (Hydrangea macrophylla) is an important ornamental crop that has been cultivated for more than 300 years. Despite the economic importance, genetic studies hydrangea have limited by lack of resources. Genetic linkage maps and subsequent trait mapping are essential tools to identify make markers available marker-assisted breeding. A transcriptomic study was performed on two cultivars, Veitchii Endless Summer, discover simple sequence repeat (SSR) F1 population based cross ‘Veitchii’...
Abstract The species Vigna unguiculata L. (Walp), commonly known as cowpea, is a multi-purpose legume that has been selected into three subspecies are divided grain, fodder and pod (yardlong bean) types. However, genetic bases for distinctions not well understood. purpose of this study was to apply genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS) current reference genome V. distinguish identify signatures divergence. collection 130 accessions included 128 cultivated from: 1) ssp. cylindrica , type; 2)...
Vanilla orchids are members of the Vanilloideae orchid subfamily, and they hold significant economic value as a spice crop in tropical regions. Despite presence 180 known species within this commercial production focuses on only three (Vanilla planifolia, V. odorata, pompona) one hybrid (V. × tahitensis), prized for their aromatic qualities bioactive compounds. Limited modern breeding initiatives have been undertaken with vanilla orchids, although recent advancements genomic research...
Understanding volatile compound formation is critical for enhancing the flavor quality of mangoes. Integrated untargeted metabolomics and proteomics were employed to explore in three different polyembryonic mango cultivars ("Ah Ping," "Rosa," "Rosigold"). A total 87 compounds identified using SPME–GC–MS. Untargeted resulted identification 508 metabolites 4481 proteins, respectively. Integrative analysis revealed that was influenced by fatty acids, amino pentose, hexose, as well terpenoid...
Endophytic bacteria from pea (Pisum sativum L.) plants play important roles in regulating plant growth, health, and nutrition. To enhance the understanding of endophytic peas, twenty cultivars, two chickpeas, broad bean cultivars were planted into artificial soils for 4 weeks. Leaves roots collected sterilized. bacterial DNAs isolated sterilized materials (leaves, roots, seeds) used as templates to detect diversity by amplifying 16S V3–V4 region. The Remel Tryptose Soya Agar (TSA) medium,...
Abstract The Hydrangea genus belongs to the Hydrangeaceae family, in Cornales order of flowering plants, which early diverged among Asterids, and includes several species that are commonly used ornamental plants. Of them, macrophylla is one most valuable nursery trade, yet few genomic resources available for this crop or closely related Asterid species. Two high-quality haplotype-resolved reference genomes hydrangea cultivars ‘Veitchii’ ‘Endless Summer’ [highest quality at 2.22 gigabase...
The pea (Pisum sativum L.) is one of the most important crops in temperate agriculture around world. In tropics, highland production also common with multiple harvests nearly mature seeds from climbing plant types on trellises. While leafless variant caused by afila gene widely used developing row-cropped field peas Europe, its use for trellised garden has not been reported. this study we describe a breeding program high-elevation tropical environment Department Nariño Colombia, where over...
Two major QTLs associated with low seed coat deficiency of soybean seeds were identified in two biparental populations, and three SNP markers validated to assist low-SCD natto breeding selection. Soybean (SCD), known as cracking during soaking the production process, is problematic because split or broken beans clog lines increases costs. Development cultivars SCD crucial support growth industry. Unfortunately, information on genetic control soybean, which desperately needed facilitate...
Currently, domestic production of vegetable soybean (aka “edamame”) lags well behind consumer demand, with approximately 70% U.S.-consumed edamame imported each year. A major barrier for growth the U.S. industry is an overall lack varieties adequate acceptability and adaption to climate environment. In this study, we evaluated eleven genotypes (including one commercial check) differences in yield, pod size, resistance local insect, bacterial, fungal pressures order identify greatest...