Bioinformatics Workshop
Luca Comai taught a bioinformatics workshop on Python-empowered genomic exploration, and the outlook for potato inbreeding and true seed propagation. He also wrote a perspective review of progress in inbreeding potato.
Can researchers save the Pacific Northwest mint industry?
September 07, 2023
Berit Thonson, Capital Press
In this article, Berit Thonson from Capital Press summarizes the challenges faced by the mint industry and highlights the efforts undertaken in our laboratory to help develop new mint clones. This work is supported by the Mint Industry Research Council (MIRC).
September, 2023
Victoria Stewart, Livingstone M. Nganga, Isabelle M Henry, Luca Comai
In this article targeted for high school students, we learn about the challenges of breeding new crop varieties and how haploid induction can help speed up this process. This article was published in the context of an NSF-PRGP award (PGRP IOS-2055260 “Mechanisms of haploid induction in potato”).
Flower Power: A Close Look at Plant Reproduction
February 21, 2023
Katherine E Dalhausen, David Coil, Luca Comai, Isabelle Henry
In this article from Frontiers (2020) geared towards middle-school students, we introduce the different kinds of sexual systems in plants, their advantages and disadvantages, how scientists can learn more about them, and why it is important to understand how they work.