Entries by Caroline Dowling

Opinion: We aren’t good at picking candidate genes, and it’s slowing us down (COPB)

March 13, 2020 in /by

Recent advances have facilitated the generation of huge phenotypic datasets from plant populations. However, the means to inexpensively organise such datasets to unequivocally determine causal genes has evaded researchers. Here, Baxter discusses how human bias when selecting candidate genes is compromising research efficiency. When utilising breeding populations for association mapping, a genomic region correlated to […]

Review: Pathways to sex determination in plants: How many roads lead to Rome? (COPB)

March 13, 2020 in /by

Although most angiosperms produce both male and female gametes, in some species an individual is either male or female, a property known as dioecy (literally, two houses). Dioecy exists in ~6% of angiosperms and is hypothesized to have evolved several times independently. While much research has been conducted to comprehend the molecular basis of sex […]