A5028098821- Turfgrass Adaptation and Management
- Plant and fungal interactions
- Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology
- Agriculture, Soil, Plant Science
- Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
- Plant Pathogens and Resistance
- Plant pathogens and resistance mechanisms
- Probiotics and Fermented Foods
- Horticultural and Viticultural Research
- Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics
- Nanoparticle-Based Drug Delivery
- Plant Reproductive Biology
- Immune Response and Inflammation
- Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
- Gut microbiota and health
Bharath University
2023
APC Microbiome Institute
2020-2021
University College Cork
2020-2021
Teagasc - The Irish Agriculture and Food Development Authority
2016-2020
University College Dublin
2016-2018
Background and Aims High density genetic linkage maps that are extensively anchored to assembled genome sequences of the organism in question extremely useful gene discovery. To facilitate this process perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.), a high single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP)- presence/absence variant (PAV)-based map has been developed an F2 mapping population used as reference numerous studies. provide sequence which align genotyping by sequencing (GBS) reads, shotgun assembly one...
Abstract The mechanisms through which cells of the host innate immune system distinguish commensal bacteria from pathogens are currently unclear. Toll-like receptors (TLRs) a class pattern recognition (PRRs) expressed by recognize microbe-associated molecular patterns (MAMPs) common to both and pathogenic bacteria. Of different TLRs, TLR2/6 bacterial lipopeptides trigger cytokines responses, especially Gram-positive Gram-negative pathogens. We report here that TLR2 is dispensable for...
Prior knowledge on heading date enables the selection of parents synthetic cultivars that are well matched with respect to time heading, which is essential ensure plants put together will cross pollinate. Heading individual can be determined via direct phenotyping, has a and labour cost. It also inferred from family means, although spread in days within families demands roguing first generation synthetics. Another option predict molecular markers. In this study we used large training...
Heading and aftermath heading are important traits in perennial ryegrass because they impact forage quality. So far, genome-wide association analyses this major species have only identified a small number of genetic variants associated with date that overall explained little the variation. Some possible reasons include rare alleles large phenotypic affects, allelic heterogeneity, or insufficient marker density. We established panel multiple genotypes from full-sib families. This ensured were...
Self-incompatibility (SI) is a physiological mechanism that many flowering plants employ to prevent self-fertilization and maintain heterozygosity. In the grass family this known be controlled by two locus (S-Z) system; however, SI system intrinsically leaky. Modifier genes of both S Z loci further locus, T, are override leading self-seed production. This has implications for ecological evolutionary success as well commercial breeding grasses. Here we report study where genetic control...
To address the lack of a truly portable, universal reference mapping population for perennial ryegrass, we have been developing recombinant inbred line (RIL) ryegrass derived via single seed descent from well-characterised F2 based on genetically distinct parents in which natural self-incompatibility (SI) system has overcome. We examined whether it is possible to create genotyping by sequencing (GBS) genetic linkage map small F6 generation this population. used 41 genotypes with...
Recent advances in the mapping of biochemical traits have been reported Lolium perenne. Although mapped traits, including individual sugars and fatty acids, contribute greatly towards ruminant productivity, organic acids amino largely understudied despite their influence on ruminal microbiome. In this study, we used a targeted gas-chromatography mass spectrometry (GC-MS) approach to profile levels 25 polar metabolites from different classes (sugars, phenolic other nitrogen-containing...
Recently, nanomedicine has had a great impact on drug discovery and made the way for delivery system therapeutic utility. There are many nanoscale products increasing in research field medical sector. Nanoparticle modified drugs being developed brought into market treatment of cancer. The nanoparticle carrier can improve stability by decreasing cancerous cell involving at disease site. Essential trace elements mostly important physiological biochemical aspects human system. Nowadays...