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| Tuesday, May 8th, 2012 | | 10:27 pm |
Recent Raizada Lab paper noted as "Hot New Paper" and "2012 Recommended Reading"
A recent paper from the Raizada Lab from PhD student Amelie Gaudin was recently featured as a "Hot New Paper" and "2012 Recommended Reading" by the maize genetics community. The paper was earlier highlighted by the Crop Science Society of America. Here is the citation by Recommending Member, Dr. Owen Hoekenga, from USDA/Ithaca: http://beta.maizegdb.org/community/hot_new_papers?row=1&sort=0The citation reads: Gaudin, AC; McClymont, SA; Raizada, M. 2011. Crop Sci. 51:2780-2795 The Nitrogen Adaptation Strategy of the Wild Teosinte Ancestor of Modern Maize, Zea mays subsp. parviglumis "While the impact of domestication on the form and function of the maize plant has been considered for many years, the majority of attention has been placed above ground. Roots are not an easy system to study and have largely been ignored. An innovative aeroponics apparatus has been designed to allow plants to be grown to maturity using controlled nutrient environments and to have their roots systems easily visualized and sampled for additional study. This aeroponic approach allowed quantitative traits of root architecture, reporter gene expression and nitrogen use efficiency to be examined in teosinte and the W22 inbred. Teosinte and other wild plants are well adapted to irregular soil environments, making more out of less. Modern maize inbreds have been optimized to grow in uniform and nutrient-dense soil environments. However, with increasing fertilizer costs and a wish to decrease the impact of agriculture on the broader environment, having a better understanding of how wild relatives adapt to low nutrient environments has high value. This study establishes a procedure for collecting accurate and reproducible trait data to guide these future efforts in understanding the molecular genetic, physiological, and developmental underpinnings of nitrogen use efficiency. This information will be extremely useful to enhance the sustainability of agriculture. Owen Hoekenga, 2012" | | Monday, March 12th, 2012 | | 4:03 am |
Congratulations to Cameron Phillips
Congrats to Guelph undergrad Cameron Phillips, who recently won a grant from the Rotary Foundation to travel to India to meet with smallholder farmers. Cameron is a volunteer in the Raizada Lab, helping to develop picture books for illiterate women farmers in India, a component of the Sustainable Agriculture Kit (SAK), IDRC-funded initiative. | | 3:55 am |
Manish Raizada speaks at ICRISAT
Manish Raizada recently gave a lecture at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), a global CGIAR Center, in Hyderabad, India. ICRISAT is responsible for breeding dryland crops in South Asia and Africa. The lecture was entitled, " Useful Microbes for Maize, and Root Hair and Root Architecture Responses to Low Nitrogen", based on the hard work of Raizada Lab graduate students, Amelie Gaudin, Christophe Liseron-Monfils, Hanan Shehata, Michael Tessaro, Sameh Soliman, and David Johnston-Monje, and undergrad student, Sarah McClymont.The lecture followed visits by Manish, Dr. Vijay Bhosekar and undergrad Cameron Phillips, to remote tribal communities in India, to conduct community-based farm surveys, particularly with women farmers. | | 3:48 am |
New Course Offered for International Development Students
Manish Raizada is now offering a new undergrad course for International Development students, entitled "Plant Agriculture for International Development" (AGR2150) with a focus on SubSaharan Africa. The course was first offered in F2011. It is hoped the course will grow to allow distance-education based training for international aid workers in government, aid agencies, NGOs and the private sector, who would like an introduction to subsistence agriculture and smallholder farming. | | 3:31 am |
Manish Raizada testifies in front of Canadian Parliament
Manish Raizada testified in front of the Canadian Parliament in Ottawa (Agriculture Committee) on Feb 9, 2012, on how Canada could develop export products based on sustainable agriculture and inexpensive, appropriate technologies. This strategy would create "green jobs" as well as manufacturing jobs for Canadians, while simultaneously promoting private-sector-based international development overseas, to help the world's 1 billion poor farmers and their families. | | 3:23 am |
Welcome to Vijay Bhosekar
A tardy public welcome to Dr. Vijay Bhosekar who joins the Raizada Lab after extensive research experience including >20 peer-reviewed publications in crop management. Vijay will be the liaison between the Raizada Lab and various South Asian partners, to develop Sustainable Agriculture Kits (SAKs) for minor millet farmers in India, Nepal and Sri Lanka, part of a large food security grant funded by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and CIDA. More info about SAKs can be found at: http://www.SAKglobal.orgWelcome, Vijay! -- Manish | | 3:19 am |
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Congratulations to Michael Tessaro
Congrats to Michael Tessaro for successfully defending his MSc thesis in January 2012. We wish him much success in his future! -- Manish | | 3:12 am |
Welcome to PhD student Walaa Moatey Kaml
I am very happy to welcome a new PhD student to the Lab, Mrs. Walaa Moatey Kaml from Egypt. Walaa comes to the Lab on a prestigious full scholarship from the Government of Egypt. The Lab and I welcome you and your family to Canada and to Guelph! --Manish | | Monday, January 23rd, 2012 | | 3:55 pm |
| | Tuesday, November 15th, 2011 | | 1:53 pm |
Congratulations to lab members with recent publications accepted
Congratulations to the students in the Lab who have had peer-reviewed papers accepted recently: Tessaro, M.J., Soliman, S.S.M. and Raizada, M.N. (2011) A whole cell biosensor for glutamine and applications for quantifying and visualizing glutamine in plants. Applied and Environmental Microbiology (In press, available online) http://aem.asm.org/content/early/2011/11/07/AEM.05261-11.abstractSoliman, S.S.M., Tsao, R. and Raizada, M.N. (2011) Chemical Inhibitors Suggest Endophytic Fungal Paclitaxel Is Derived from Both Mevalonate and Non-mevalonate-like Pathways. Journal of Natural Products (In press, available online) http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/np200303vTaheri, A., Subramanian, J., Cline, J.A., Raizada, M.N. and Pauls, K.P. (2011) A WD-repeat gene from peach (Prunus persica L.) is a functional ortholog of Arabidopsis thaliana TRANSPARENT TESTA GLABRA1. In Vitro Cellular and Developmental Biology – Plant. DOI 10.1007/s11627-011-9390-3 http://www.springerlink.com/content/1n233565681t1022/Gaudin, A.C.M., S.A. McClymont and Raizada M.N. (2011) The nitrogen adaptation strategy of the wild teosinte ancestor of modern maize, Zea mays subsp. parviglumis. Crop Science 51: 2780-2795 https://www.crops.org/publications/cs/abstracts/51/6/2780Gaudin, A.C.M., S.A. McClymont, B.M. Holmes, E. Lyons, and Raizada M.N. (2011) Novel temporal, fine-scale and growth variation phenotypes in roots of adult-stage maize (Zea mays L.) in response to low nitrogen stress. Plant Cell & Environment 34: 2122-2137 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-3040.2011.02409.x/abstractJohnston-Monje D. and Raizada M.N. (2011) Integration of Biotechnologies – Plant and Endophyte Relationships: Nutrient Management. In: Murray Moo-Young (ed.), Comprehensive Biotechnology, Second Edition, volume 4, pp. 713–727. Elsevier. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780080885049002646Johnston-Monje D. and Raizada M.N. (2011) Conservation and diversity of seed associated endophytes in Zea across boundaries of evolution, ethnography and ecology. PLoS One 6: e20396. http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0020396 | | Monday, July 18th, 2011 | | 9:54 am |
Welcome to Jenn Beer and Amit Tah
The Raizada Lab would like to welcome to the lab two summer student research assistants, Jenn Beer and Amit Tah. Thank you for your help in the coming weeks! Manish | | Friday, June 17th, 2011 | | 6:22 am |
Welcome to Hanan Shehata
The Raizada Lab would like to welcome Hanan Shehata to our group to begin PhD studies. Hanan is from Egypt and has won a prestigious 4-year national scholarship to join our group. We would like to welcome you and your family to Canada and to Guelph, Hanan! We hope your time here will be happy and productive. Best wishes, Manish | | 6:18 am |
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Congratulations to David Johnston-Monje
Congratulations to David Johnston-Monje, a PhD student in the Lab, who successfully defended his PhD thesis in May, 2011. David's research concerned discovering and analyzing bacteria that inhabit corn plants, in particular seeds (endophytes). Several of these microbes may be beneficial to corn growth including nutrient management and pathogen control, including in the root zone (rhizosphere) of the plant. Congrats, David! --Manish | | Sunday, January 30th, 2011 | | 3:32 pm |
Congratulations to Amelie Gaudin
Congratulations to Amelie Gaudin, a PhD student in the Lab, who successfully defended her PhD in early January. Amelie's research concerned how corn roots respond to low nitrogen fertilizer. She also undertook pioneering studies to understand how 9,000 years of breeding have altered corn roots and their response to nitrogen fertilizer. Congratulations, Amelie!! --Manish | | Saturday, January 1st, 2011 | | 9:36 pm |
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Raizada Lab to develop Sustainable Agriculture Kits for indigenous farmers in India
The Raizada Lab was recently awarded a grant by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC Canada) to develop Sustainable Agriculture Kits (SAKs) for indigenous women farmers in India growing minor millets. The grant is led by Prof. Kirit Patel from Canadian Mennonite University in Manitoba, and the Guelph PI is Dr. Koushik Seetharaman. The Raizada Lab will also be assisting these women farmers with sustainable nitrogen management strategies. More information on the SAK initiative is available here: http://www.sakglobal.org/ |
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