Search Results - "Albertsen, Marc C."

Successes and insights of an industry biotech program to enhance maize agronomic traits by Simmons, Carl R., Lafitte, H. Renee, Reimann, Kellie S., Brugière, Norbert, Roesler, Keith, Albertsen, Marc C., Greene, Thomas W., Habben, Jeffrey E.

“…•Single transgenes can improve maize grain yield in elite germplasm grown in the field.•The observed overall gene validation rate was over 1%.•Efficacious…”
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Molecular identification of the wheat male fertility gene Ms1 and its prospects for hybrid breeding by Tucker, Elise J., Baumann, Ute, Kouidri, Allan, Suchecki, Radoslaw, Baes, Mathieu, Garcia, Melissa, Okada, Takashi, Dong, Chongmei, Wu, Yongzhong, Sandhu, Ajay, Singh, Manjit, Langridge, Peter, Wolters, Petra, Albertsen, Marc C., Cigan, A. Mark, Whitford, Ryan

“…The current rate of yield gain in crops is insufficient to meet the predicted demands. Capturing the yield boost from heterosis is one of the few technologies…”
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Male Fertility Genes in Bread Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) and Their Utilization for Hybrid Seed Production by Singh, Manjit, Albertsen, Marc C., Cigan, A. Mark

“…Hybrid varieties can provide the boost needed to increase stagnant wheat yields through heterosis. The lack of an efficient hybridization system, which can…”
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Wuschel2 enables highly efficient CRISPR/Cas-targeted genome editing during rapid de novo shoot regeneration in sorghum by Che, Ping, Wu, Emily, Simon, Marissa K., Anand, Ajith, Lowe, Keith, Gao, Huirong, Sigmund, Amy L., Yang, Meizhu, Albertsen, Marc C., Gordon-Kamm, William, Jones, Todd J.

“…For many important crops including sorghum, use of CRISPR/Cas technology is limited not only by the delivery of the gene-modification components into a plant…”
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Transgenic manipulation of plant embryo sacs tracked through cell-type-specific fluorescent markers: cell labeling, cell ablation, and adventitious embryos by Lawit, Shai J, Chamberlin, Mark A, Agee, April, Caswell, Eric S, Albertsen, Marc C

“…Expression datasets relating to the Arabidopsis female gametophyte have enabled the creation of a tool set which allows simultaneous visual tracking of each…”
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Concurrent modifications in the three homeologs of Ms45 gene with CRISPR-Cas9 lead to rapid generation of male sterile bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) by Singh, Manjit, Kumar, Manish, Albertsen, Marc C., Young, Joshua K., Cigan, A. Mark

“…Key message Hexaploid bread wheat is not readily amenable to traditional mutagenesis approaches. In this study, we show efficient utilization of CRISPR-Cas…”
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Elevated vitamin E content improves all-trans β-carotene accumulation and stability in biofortified sorghum by Che, Ping, Zhao, Zuo-Yu, Glassman, Kimberly, Dolde, David, Hu, Tiger X., Jones, Todd J., Gruis, Darren Fred, Obukosia, Silas, Wambugu, Florence, Albertsen, Marc C.

“…Micronutrient deficiencies are common in locales where people must rely upon sorghum as their staple diet. Sorghum grain is seriously deficient in provitamin A…”
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Developing a flexible, high‐efficiency Agrobacterium‐mediated sorghum transformation system with broad application by Che, Ping, Anand, Ajith, Wu, Emily, Sander, Jeffry D., Simon, Marissa K., Zhu, Weiwei, Sigmund, Amy L., Zastrow‐Hayes, Gina, Miller, Michael, Liu, Donglong, Lawit, Shai J., Zhao, Zuo‐Yu, Albertsen, Marc C., Jones, Todd J.

“…Summary Sorghum is the fifth most widely planted cereal crop in the world and is commonly cultivated in arid and semi‐arid regions such as Africa. Despite its…”
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Developing a rapid and highly efficient cowpea regeneration, transformation and genome editing system using embryonic axis explants by Che, Ping, Chang, Shujun, Simon, Marissa K., Zhang, Zhifen, Shaharyar, Ahmed, Ourada, Jesse, O’Neill, Dennis, Torres‐Mendoza, Mijael, Guo, Yinping, Marasigan, Kathleen M., Vielle‐Calzada, Jean‐Philippe, Ozias‐Akins, Peggy, Albertsen, Marc C., Jones, Todd J.

“…SUMMARY Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp.) is one of the most important legume crops planted worldwide, but despite decades of effort, cowpea transformation…”
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Development of a novel recessive genetic male sterility system for hybrid seed production in maize and other cross‐pollinating crops by Wu, Yongzhong, Fox, Tim W, Trimnell, Mary R, Wang, Lijuan, Xu, Rui‐ji, Cigan, A. Mark, Huffman, Gary A, Garnaat, Carl W, Hershey, Howard, Albertsen, Marc C

“…We have developed a novel hybridization platform that utilizes nuclear male sterility to produce hybrids in maize and other cross‐pollinating crops. A key…”
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Bioaccessibility of Carotenoids from Transgenic Provitamin A Biofortified Sorghum by Lipkie, Tristan E, De Moura, Fabiana F, Zhao, Zuo-Yu, Albertsen, Marc C, Che, Ping, Glassman, Kimberly, Ferruzzi, Mario G

“…Biofortified sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench) lines are being developed to target vitamin A deficiency in Sub-Saharan Africa, but the delivery of…”
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Wheat ms5 male‐sterility is induced by recessive homoeologous A and D genome non‐specific lipid transfer proteins by Pallotta, Margaret A., Warner, Patricia, Kouidri, Allan, Tucker, Elise J., Baes, Mathieu, Suchecki, Radoslaw, Watson‐Haigh, Nathan, Okada, Takashi, Garcia, Melissa, Sandhu, Ajay, Singh, Manjit, Wolters, Petra, Albertsen, Marc C., Cigan, A. Mark, Baumann, Ute, Whitford, Ryan

“…Summary Nuclear male‐sterile mutants with non‐conditional, recessive and strictly monogenic inheritance are useful for both hybrid and conventional breeding…”
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Genetic factors associated with favourable pollinator traits in the wheat cultivar Piko by Okada, Takashi, Jayasinghe, J E A Ridma M, Eckermann, Paul, Watson-Haigh, Nathan S, Warner, Patricia, Williams, Mark E, Albertsen, Marc C, Baumann, Ute, Whitford, Ryan

“…Hybrid breeding in wheat has the potential to boost yields. An efficient hybrid seed production system requires elite pollinators; however, such germplasm is…”
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Trait stacking simultaneously enhances provitamin A carotenoid and mineral bioaccessibility in biofortified Sorghum bicolor by Dzakovich, Michael P, Debelo, Hawi, Albertsen, Marc C, Che, Ping, Jones, Todd J, Simon, Marissa K, Zhao, Zuo-Yu, Glassman, Kimberly, Ferruzzi, Mario G

“…Vitamin A, iron, and zinc deficiencies are major nutritional inadequacies in sub-Saharan Africa and disproportionately affect women and children. Biotechnology…”
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MICROSCOPIC CHARACTERIZATION OF A TRANSPOSON-INDUCED MALE-STERILE, FEMALE-STERILE MUTANT IN GLYCINE MAX L by Thilges, Katherine A., Chamberlin, Mark A., Albertsen, Marc C., Horner, Harry T.

“…Premise of research. A male-sterile, female-sterile mutant was discovered in a w4-m mutable line of Glycine max L. The mechanism of its sterility was not well…”
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Application of T-DNA activation tagging to identify glutamate receptor-like genes that enhance drought tolerance in plants by Lu, Guihua, Wang, Xiping, Liu, Junhua, Yu, Kun, Gao, Yang, Liu, Haiyan, Wang, Changgui, Wang, Wei, Wang, Guokui, Liu, Min, Mao, Guanfan, Li, Binfeng, Qin, Jianying, Xia, Mian, Zhou, Junli, Liu, Jingmei, Jiang, Shuqin, Mo, Hua, Cui, Jinteng, Nagasawa, Nobuhiro, Sivasankar, Shoba, Albertsen, Marc C, Sakai, Hajime, Mazur, Barbara J, Lassner, Michael W, Broglie, Richard M

“…KEY MESSAGE : A high-quality rice activation tagging population has been developed and screened for drought-tolerant lines using various water stress assays…”
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Is there a place for nutrition-sensitive agriculture? by Wambugu, Florence, Obukosia, Silas, Gaffney, Jim, Kamanga, Daniel, Che, Ping, Albertsen, Marc C., Zhao, Zuo-Yu, Ragland, Lonnetta, Yeye, Mary, Kimani, Esther, Aba, Daniel, Gidado, Rose, Solomon, B. O., Njuguna, Michael

“…The focus of the review paper is to discuss how biotechnological innovations are opening new frontiers to mitigate nutrition in key agricultural crops with…”
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The transformation of anthers in the msca1 mutant of maize by Chaubal, Raj, Anderson, John R., Trimnell, Mary R., Fox, Tim W., Albertsen, Marc C., Bedinger, Patricia

“…In normal anther development in maize (Zea mays L), large hypodermal cells in anther primordia undergo a series of proscribed cell divisions to form an anther…”
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Two male-sterile mutants of Zea Mays (Poaceae) with an extra cell division in the anther wall by Chaubal, Raj, Zanella, Carla, Trimnell, Mary R., Fox, Tim W., Albertsen, Marc C., Bedinger, Patricia

“…Two recessive male-sterile mutants of maize with similar patterns of pollen abortion were studied. Genetic studies showed that one of the two mutations was…”
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Flavanone 3‐hydroxylase transcripts and flavonol accumulation are temporally coordinate in maize anthers by Deboo, Gulshan B., Albertsen, Marc C., Taylor, Loverine P.

“…Flavanone 3‐hydroxylase (F3H) activity is necessary for the production of both flavonols and anthocyanins. Flavonols are required for functional pollen in…”
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