Young Lab at the University of Minnesota Research focusing on legume genomics and the evolution of plant disease resistance genes

Nevin Dale Young, principal investigator
Distinguished McKnight University Professor
Department of Plant Pathology / 495 Borlaug Hall (Mailing address)
Department of Plant Biology / 250 BioScience Center
University of Minnesota
St. Paul, Minnesota 55108

Voice: 612-625-2225 / Lab: 612-625-2221 / Fax: 612-625-9728
Office: 320 Cargill Building for Microbial and Plant Genomics
Lab: 350 Cargill Building for Microbial and Plant Genomics
Email: neviny@umn.edu

Interesting Links

• Medicago.org: Website for the Medicago truncatula sequencing initiative
• Molecular evolution of legume disease resistance genes
• Medicago truncatula sequence poster (pdf)
• Report of the Medicago Genomics/Informatics workshop (Asilomar 2005) (pdf)
  
• Sequencing the genespace of Medicago truncatula and Lotus japonicus. Plant Physiology 137: 1171-1181

Selected Recent Publications

Ameline-Torregrosa, C., Wang, B.-B., Denny, R.L., O’Bleness, M., Despande, S., Zhu, H., Roe, B., Young, N.D., Cannon, S.B. (2008) Identification and characterization of NBS-LRR encoded genes in the model plant Medicago truncatula. Plant Physiology 146: 5-21.


Cannon, S.B., Sterck, L., Rombauts, S., Sato, S., Cheung, F. Gouzy, J.P., Wang, X., Mudge, J., Vasdewani, J., Schiex, T., Spannagl, M., Monaghan, E., Nicholson, C., Humphray, S.J., Schoof, H., Mayer, K.F.X., Rogers, J., Quétier, F., Oldroyd, G.E., Debellé, F., Cook, D.R., Roe, B.A., Town, C.D. Tabata, S., Van de Peer, Y., Young, N.D. (2006) Legume evolution viewed through the Medicago truncatula and Lotus japonicus genomes. Proceedings National Academy Sciences USA, 103:14959-14964.


Choi, I.-Y., Hyten, D.L., Specht, J.E., Matukumalli, L.K., Song, Q., Quigley, C.V., Lee, M.S., Chase, K., Lark, K.G., Reiter, R.S., Yoon, M.-S., Hwang, E.-Y., Yi, S.-I., Young, N.D., Shoemaker, R.C., van Tassell, C.P., Cregan, P.B. (2007) A soybean transcript map:  Discovery and mapping of single nucleotide polymorphisms in soybean genes. Genetics 176: 685-696.


Mun, J.-H., Kim D.-J., Choi, H.-K., Gish, J., Debellé, F., Mudge, J., Denny, R., Endré, G., Saurat, O., Dudez, A.-M., Kiss, G.B., Roe, B.A., Young, N.D., Cook D.R. (2006) Distribution of microsatellites in the genome of Medicago truncatula: A resource of genetic markers that integrate genetic and physical maps. Genetics 172: 2541-2555.


Wang, B.B., O’Toole, M., Brendel, V., Young, N.D. (2008) Novel and conserved alternative splicing events are revealed by cross-species EST alignments in legumes. BMC Plant Biology 8:17.

For general questions about the lab or this web page, please contact: neviny@umn.edu
For questions regarding DNA markers or BAC libraries, please contact: denny004@umn.edu
For questions regarding the Medicago truncatula genome sequencing website, please contact: wang0174@umn.edu

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