The NitroGenes Team
Participants on the NitroGenes project from both Cornell and Illinois, during the Cornell group's visit to Illinois in July.
The Moose and Below lab after sampling plants for NUE measurements
The Moose Lab after pollinating mapping populations for NUE.
Faculty
University of Illinois
Co-Principal Investigator
Physiology and field evaluations of N response
Abebe Menkir
International Institute for Tropical Agriculture
Collaborator
Postdoctoral and Staff Scientists
Han Zhao
Univ. Illinois
RNA expression responses
to long-term selection for
plant N accumulation
Juliann Seebauer
Univ. Illinois
Plant physiology, metabolite analysis, root architecture
Jim Kleiss
Univ. Illinois
Phenotyping for agronomic NUE traits.
Nengyi Zhang
Cornell Univ.
Association genetics and
mapping variation in enzyme
activities associated with N
metabolism
Mark Harrison
Univ. Illinois
Phenotyping for agronomic NUE traits.
Brad Bandy
Univ. Illinois
Phenotyping for agronomic NUE traits.
Kateri Duncan
Univ. Illinois
Protein and metabolite responses to N
Graduate Students
Devin Nichols
Genetic mapping of agronomic,
metabolic, and RNA expression traits
associated with maize N responses.
Abe Ayodeji
Univ. Ibadan, Nigeria
Agronomic evaluation and gene
expression profiling of African
germplasm selected for improved NUE
Wei Zhang
Univ. Illinois
Regulation of microRNA expression.
Jeff Church
Gene expression responses in the primary N assimilation pathway
Ayna Salas
Univ. Illinois
Transgenic maize line
