Month: October 2019

Kathleen Pryer visits Laval University, Oct. 31

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Kathleen Pryer is visiting Laval University and the Louis-Marie Herber this week. Kathleen has an impressive career working on the phylogeny and evolution of seed-free vascular plants, especially ferns.   A short list with some of her prominent papers: Eily, A.N, K.M. Pryer, and F.-W. Li. 2019. A first glimpse at genes important to the Azolla–Nostoc symbiosis. Symbiosis 77. Yang, E.J., C.Y. Yoo, J, Liu, H. Wang, J. Cao, F.-W. Li, K.M. Pryer, et al. 2019. NCP activates chloro...
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One thousand plant transcriptomes and the phylogenomics of green plants

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The onekp project  is an international transdisciplinary consortium made up of 200 top scientists from all over the world and led by Gane Wong (U. of Alberta), Jim Leebens-Mack (U. of Georgia), Mike Barker (U. of Arizona) among many others. The project has generated large-scale transcriptomes for over 1200 plants (from glaucocystophytes, red algae and green plants). The oneKP initiative has published landmark papers on plant evolution (Wicket et al., 2014, PNAS), horizontal gene transfer (Li, Vi...
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Fieldwork in Panama – an update

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The Panama grant on cycads is taking shape with most collections being done by our great team. Lilisbeth has organized all the field trips and collected leaves and roots of many Zamia species. Lilisbeth is also doing molecular lab work. Gustavo Salado has done most of the metagenomic and population genetic work on two Zamia species. Omayra Meléndez has done all the culture work and we have a nice collection of endophytes from Zamia nana and Zamia pseudoparasitica. In the summer, Sandri...
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