National Center for Genetic Resources Preservation

NCGRP Plant Research Unit Laboratories

Cryobiology of Vegetative Tissues | Cryobiology of Cells
Seed Quality and Biophysics | Population Genetics

Population genetics and genomics

Selected Research Projects

• Genetic structure and patterns of selection in natural populations of Beta maritima.
• Garlic genetic diversity
• Conservation genetics of Texas Wild Rice (Zizania texana)
• Genetic diversity of wild Malus collections from Kazakstan
• Colonization dynamics and genetic structure of Bristlecone pine

Publication Highlights

Volk, G.M., C.M. Richards, A.A. Reilley, A.D. Henk, P.L. Forsline, and H.S. Aldwinckle. 2005. Ex situ conservation of vegetatively-propagated species: Development of a seed-based core collection for Malus sieversii. Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science 130: (in press). March issue.

Richards, C.M., M. Brownson, S. Mitchell, S. Kresovich, and L. Panella. 2004. Length polymorphisms of simple sequence repeats in Beta vulgaris. Molecular Ecology Notes. 4:243-245.

Reeves, P. A., P. H. Friedman, and C. M. Richards. 2004. WolfPAC: a distributed computing environment for phylogenetic analysis. Applied Bioinformatics (in press).

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