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College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

# overview
Using cutting-edge technologies in molecular biology and plant genetics, my Sugarcane Breeding program at Texas A&M AgriLife Research has developed energy cane cultivars with high biomass yield, in partnership with Chevron Technologies Venture and BP Biofuels, that can be grown in a wider region of Texas and the United States, specifically designed for use in the production of bio-fuels. This program has also optimized efficient capabilities for scaling up production of feedstock planting stock.  In addition, applying Next-Generation DNA sequencing techniques my program has identified and isolated genes controlling stress resistance, such as cold, which could prevent losses to the $3.8 billion US sugar industry and is developing DNA markers to tag important genes controlling cell wall composition and disease resistance.

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30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

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3002 Agriculture, Land And Farm Management

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30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

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3002 Agriculture, Land And Farm Management

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30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

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3709 Physical Geography And Environmental Geoscience

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30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

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Cornell University - (Ithaca, New York, United States)

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Author Correction: Genome-wide simple sequence repeats (SSR) markers discovered from whole-genome sequence comparisons of multiple spinach accessions.

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Development of an integrated genetic map of a sugarcane (Saccharum spp.) commercial cross, based on a maximum-likelihood approach for estimation of linkage and linkage phases.

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Relationships between physiological traits and productivity of sugarcane in response to water deficit

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Crossresistance between the Mexican Rice Borer and the Sugarcane Borer (Lepidoptera: Crambidae): A Case Study Using Sugarcane Breeding Populations

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Elimination of a Reproductive Barrier Facilitates Intergeneric Hybridization of Sorghum bicolor and Saccharum

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RFLP linkage map and genome analysis of Saccharum spontaneum.

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Use of bioreactors for large-scale multiplication of sugarcane (Saccharumspp.), energy cane (Saccharumspp.), and related species

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Evaluation of the DSSAT-CANEGRO model for simulating the growth of energy cane (Saccharum spp.), a biofuel feedstock crop

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Energycane growth dynamics and potential early harvest penalties along the Texas Gulf Coast

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The use of UAS-based high throughput phenotyping (HTP) to assess sugarcane yield

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Genome-wide alternative splicing landscapes modulated by biotrophic sugarcane smut pathogen.

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Detailed alignment of saccharum and sorghum chromosomes: comparative organization of closely related diploid and polyploid genomes.

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Agronomic and molecular characterization of wild germplasm Saccharum spontaneum for sugarcane and energycane breeding purposes

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Compendium of Bioenergy Plants SUGARCANE Preface

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Use of physiological parameters as fast tools to screen for drought tolerance in sugarcane

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Exploitation of conserved intron scanning as a tool for molecular marker development in the Saccharum complex

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Sucrose synthase molecular marker associated with sugar content in elite sugarcane progeny

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Constituent levels of phenolic compounds may be related to strength of sugar cane to the leafhopper-of-root

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The Importance of the Wild Cane Saccharum spontaneum for Bioenergy Genetic Breeding

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High-Level Production of Recombinant Snowdrop Lectin in Sugarcane and Energy Cane.

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Development of an in vitro Microtuberization and Temporary Immersion Bioreactor System to Evaluate Heat Stress Tolerance in Potatoes (Solanum tuberosum L.).

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Biomass Accumulation and Cell Wall Structure of Rice Plants Overexpressing a Dirigent-Jacalin of Sugarcane (ShDJ) Under Varying Conditions of Water Availability.

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Mark E. Sorrells: Plant Breeder, Geneticist, Innovator, Mentor

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Forecasting Yield and Lignocellulosic Composition of Energy Cane Using Unmanned Aerial Systems

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Photosynthetic Capacity and Water Use Efficiency in Sugarcane Genotypes Subject to Water Deficit During Early Growth Phase

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Statistical aspects of genetic mapping in autopolyploids.

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Genome-wide simple sequence repeats (SSR) markers discovered from whole-genome sequence comparisons of multiple spinach accessions.

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Saccharum spontaneum L. SES 208 genetic linkage map combining RFLP- and PCR-based markers

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A biolistic-based genetic transformation system applicable to a broad-range of sugarcane and energycane varieties.

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Improving sugarcane for biofuel: engineering for an even better feedstock

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Assessing Drought Stress of Sugarcane Cultivars Using Unmanned Vehicle System (UAS)-Based Vegetation Indices and Physiological Parameters

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Hybridization of Sugarcane and Other Grasses for Novel Traits

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Agronomic performance of the lignocellulosic feedstock crop energy cane in the Texas Rolling Plains

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New Sugarcane Microsatellites and Target Region Amplification Polymorphism Primers Designed from Candidate Genes Related to Disease Resistance

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High-throughput Quality Characterization of Warm Season Lignocellulosic Feedstocks

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Use of Physiological Parameters in Screening Drought Tolerance in Sugarcane Genotypes

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Cold Responsive Gene Expression Profiling of Sugarcane and Saccharum spontaneum with Functional Analysis of a Cold Inducible Saccharum Homolog of NOD26-Like Intrinsic Protein to Salt and Water Stress.

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FREE PROLINE ACCUMULATION IN SUGARCANE UNDER WATER RESTRICTION AND SPITTLEBUG INFESTATION

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Balancing selection contributed to domestication of autopolyploid sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum L.)

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Preliminary analysis of microsatellite markers derived from sugarcane expressed sequence tags (ESTs)

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Estimating Sugarcane Yield and its Components Using Unmanned Aerial Systems (Uas)- Based High Throughput Phenotyping (Htp)

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YIELD COMPONENTS AS INDICATORS OF DROUGHT TOLERANCE OF SUGARCANE

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Sugarcane Improvement through Breeding and Biotechnology

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A Sugarcane G-Protein-Coupled Receptor, ShGPCR1, Confers Tolerance to Multiple Abiotic Stresses.

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Sugarcane and Energycane Genetic Improvement for Subtropical Conditions

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National Institute of Food and Agriculture - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)

# streetAddress
Texas A&M AgriLife Research; Weslaco; 9999 TAMUS

# organizations[]
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

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College of Agriculture and Life Sciences