Jacqueline D. Farrell: Investigating self-incompatibility in perennial ryegrass
PhD defence, Tuesday February 4th, 2014. Jacqueline D. Farrell.
During her studies, Jacqueline D. Farrell developed genetic information about perennial ryegrass. In Denmark, perennial ryegrass seed production and export is an important component of the agricultural economy. Perennial ryegrass is an outbreeding species due to a self-incompatibility (SI) system that is genetically regulated by two independent loci, S and Z. Genetic self-incompatibility (GSI) is a prezygotic reproductive process by which the pistil can reject its own pollen. Jacqueline D. Farrell studied the global gene expression in perennial ryegrass to better understand of the mechanisms involved in self-incompatibility.
Jacqueline D. Farrell’s research contributed to the developed a comprehensive annotated reference transcriptome was developed that can aid in determining genetic variation, expression analysis, genome annotation and gene mapping. Jacqueline D. Farrell’s research also contributed to a better understanding of the mechanisms involved in self-incompatibility.
The PhD degree was completed at the Flakkebjerg Research Center, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Crop Genetics and Biotechnology Section, Intergrated Genomics Group, Science and Technology, Aarhus University.
Time: Tuesday, February 4th 2014 at 13.00
Place: Lecture auditorium, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Flakkebjerg, Aarhus University
Title of dissertation: Characterization of mechanisms involved in self incompatibility of perennial ryegrass
Contact information: Jacqueline D. Farrell, e-mail: Jacqueline.Farrell@agrsci.dk, tel.: +45 8715 4983, mobile: +45 5252 2348
Members of the assessment committee:
Professor Patricia Bedinger, Department of Biology, Colorado State University, USA
Professor Kåre Lehmann Nielsen, Department of Biotechnology, Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, Aalborg University, Denmark
Professor Bo Thomsen (chair), Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University
Main supervisor:
Dr. Torben Asp, Dept, Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University
Co-supervisor:
Dr. Stephen Byrne, Dept, Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University
Language: The PhD dissertation will be defended in English.
The defence is public.