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
• Medicago truncatula sequence poster (pdf)
• Report of the Medicago genomics/informatics workshop (Asilomar 2005) (pdf)
  
• Translating Medicago genomics to crop legumes
• Molecular evolution of legume disease resistance genes (NSF project with RW Innes, JJ Doyle, S Maroof, BA Roe)
• NSF Award: A Medicago HapMap as a Platform for Exploring the Genetics of Legume Symbioses
  

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.


Innes R.W., Ameline-Torregrosa C., Ashfield T., Cannon E., Cannon S.B., Chacko B., Chen N.W., Couloux A., Dalwani A., Denny R., Deshpande S., Egan A.N., Glover N., Hans C.S., Howell S., Ilut D., Jackson S., Lai H., Mammadov J., Campo S.M., Metcalf M., Nguyen A., O'Bleness M., Pfeil B.E., Podicheti R., Ratnaparkhe M.B., Samain S., Sanders I., Segurens B., Sevignac M., Sherman-Broyles S., Thareau V., Tucker D.M., Walling J., Wawrzynski A., Yi J., Doyle J.J., Geffroy V., Roe B.A., Maroof M.A., Young N.D. (2008) Differential accumulation of retroelements and diversification of NB-LRR disease resistance genes in duplicated regions following polyploidy in the ancestor of soybean. Plant Physiology 2008 Oct 8. [Epub ahead of print]


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.


Young, N.D. and Udvardi, M. (2009) Translating Medicago truncatula genomics to crop legumes. Current Opinion in Plant Biology doi:10.1016/j.pbi.2008.11.005.

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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