Vegetable Breeding, Genetics & Genomics

Aug 10, 2018

The watermelon harvest season of 2018 is coming to a close and the McGregor Lab wants to express our sincere gratitude to our undergraduate workers for putting up with all of the mud, sweat, weeds, and bugbites that make our research possible!

Thank you for all of your hard work Christie, Emma, Jackie, Sam and Becca!

No comments:

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

About the Lab

Our research program focuses on developing molecular tools for watermelon and integrating these tools into our breeding program. Thus we strive to bridge the gap between basic genomic research and applied cultivar development.

Our current research projects endeavor to identify loci and genes associated with important fruit, seed, flower and disease resistance traits in watermelon.

Participants in our research group gain experience in field, greenhouse and laboratory research as well as genomic analysis and bioinformatics. The majority of research is carried out by graduate and undergraduate students, as well as high school students through the Young Scholars Internship Program.