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College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

# overview
My research focuses on conventional, cytogenetic, and genomic strategies towards development of improved perennial grasses as biorefinery platforms for biofuels, turfgrasses, forage, ornamentals, phytoremediators and renewable bio-based products.  This includes developing molecular tools to assist marker-assisted breeding programs for value-added traits such as: net primary productivity, carbon sequestration, perenniality, photoperiodism, hybrid sterility, and apomixis.  Feedstocks are further selected for resource use efficiency, stress tolerance, and novel seeded-yet-sterile hybrid systems.

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30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

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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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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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30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

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30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

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Texas A&M University - (College Station, Texas, United States)

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Potential of Ensiling Sorghum without Grain Pretreated with Enzymes or Bacterial Inoculants

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Development and Status of Dedicated Energy Crops in the United States

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Interploid St. Augustinegrass [Stenotaphrum secundatum (Walt.) Kuntze] hybrids recovered by embryo rescue

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Development of novel perennial Sorghum bicolor x S. propinquum hybrids

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Identification of male-specific AFLP markers in dioecious Texas bluegrass

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Ploidy determination of buffel grass accessions in the USDA National Plant Germplasm System collection by flow cytometry

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Segmental allotetraploidy and allelic interactions in buffelgrass (Pennisetum ciliare (L.) Link syn. Cenchrus ciliaris L.) as revealed by genome mapping.

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Estimation of Rhizome Composition and Overwintering Ability in Perennial Sorghum spp. Using Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS)

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Interspecific Hybrids between Pembagrass and St. Augustinegrass

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A high-density genetic recombination map of sequence-tagged sites for sorghum, as a framework for comparative structural and evolutionary genomics of tropical grains and grasses.

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Carbon and evapotranspiration dynamics of a non-native perennial grass with biofuel potential in the southern US Great Plains

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Impediments to Hybridization between Napiergrass and different Pennisetum Species

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Marker-assisted verification of Kinggrass (Pennisetum purpureum Schumach. x Pennisetum glaucum [L.] R. Br.)

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Development and status of dedicated energy crops in the United States

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Targeted mapping of quantitative trait locus regions for rhizomatousness in chromosome SBI-01 and analysis of overwintering in a Sorghum bicolorS. propinquum population.

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Genetic Mapping of Fall Armyworm Resistance in Zoysiagrass

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Irrigation intervals affect dhn1 expression and some physiological parameters in stay green and non-stay-green sorghum

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Variation among hexaploid Paspalum dilatatum Poir. regenerants from tissue culture

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Disomic inheritance, suppressed recombination, and allelic interactions govern apospory in buffelgrass as revealed by genome mapping

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Genetic Diversity among Pentaploid Buffelgrass Accessions

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Seasonal variability of evapotranspiration and carbon exchanges over a biomass sorghum field in the Southern US Great Plains

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Nutritive value, fermentation characteristics, and in situ disappearance kinetics of sorghum silage treated with inoculants.

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Registration of Seed Sterile, Perennial Sorghum spp. [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench x S. halepense (L.) Pers.] Hybrid 'PSH09TX15'

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Registration of Perennial Sorghum bicolor x S. propinquum Line PSH12TX09

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Perennialism and Weediness in the Saccharinae

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Raman-based diagnostics of drought, heat and light-induced stresses in three different varieties of hemp.

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Cytogenetics and fertility of an induced tetraploid Sorghum bicolor x S. propinquum hybrid

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Polyploid Genomics of Perennial Warm-Season Grasses for the Southern United States

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Agricultural Research Service - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)

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Developing GPR For Enhanced Root and Soil Organic Carbon Imaging

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United States Department of Energy - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)

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Induced Polyploidization in the Breeding and Development of Improved Grasses for Forage, Bioenergy, Bioproducts, and Turf

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Agricultural Research Service - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)

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United States Department of Agriculture - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)

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Genetic Analysis of Multiple Eastern Gamagrass Ecotypes

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Agricultural Research Service - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)

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Breeding Perennial Grasses for Sustainable Bioenergy, Turf, Forage, and Renewable Bioproduct Systems

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

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Texas A&M University; Soil & Crop Science; 2474 TAMU

# schools[]
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

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Chen, Zhaoxin (2017-07). Daily Light Integral Requirements for Zoysiagrass and Bermudagrass Cultivars:  Fertility, Mowing Height, and Growth Regulator Interactions. Master's Thesis.

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Washburn, Jacob (2012-10). Trait Correlation and Confirmation of QTLs for Rhizome Growth and Over-wintering in Sorghum. Master's Thesis.

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Tadlock, Jordanna Keri (2015-12). Floral Characteristics and Hybrid Performance of Potential Candidates of a Hybrid Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) Program in Texas. Master's Thesis.

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Whitmire, David Kyle (2012-10). Wide Hybridization, Genomic, and Overwintering Characterization of High-Biomass Sorghum Spp. Feedstocks. Master's Thesis.

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Wilson, Gregory Bryan (2017-08). Evaluation of Herbicides on the Establishment of Pearl Millet [Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br.] x Napiergrass (Pennisetum purpureum Schumach.). Master's Thesis.

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Xu, Yifeng (2017-07). Candidate Lignocellulosic Biorefinery Feedstocks for Biomass, Succinic Acid, and Biosilica. Master's Thesis.

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Dowling, Charlie D. 1986- (2015-12). Characterization of Overwintering Perenniality in Napiergrass: Traditional and Molecular Approaches. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Xie, Runshi (2017-12). EVALUATION OF LEAF PROTEIN CONTENT, EXTRACTION, AND PURIFICATION IN NAPIERGRASS (Pennisetum purpureum SCHUMACH.). Master's Thesis.

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Dowling, Charlie (2012-02). Marker-Assisted Verification of Hybrids in Pearl Millet-Napiergrass (Pennisetum glaucum [L.] R. Br. x Pennisetum purpureum Schumach.). Master's Thesis.

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Chavarria Sanchez, Manuel Roman (2017-07). Salinity Tolerance Mechanisms of Warm-Season Turfgrass Experimental Lines and Cultivars. Doctoral Dissertation.