Dr Andrew Taylor
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TITLEResearch Fellow CONTACT
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RESEARCH PROFILEI currently work on the DEFRA funded project IF0158: Vegetable Genetic Improvement Network (VeGIN): Pre-breeding research to support sustainable farming of carrot and onion. My role within this project is in the screening of an onion diversity set (developed in previous project) for a range of agronomic traits, including: seed and seedling vigour traits and resistance to Fusarium basal rot. My work also involves screening the diversity set for growth and nutritional responses to arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. The diversity set will then be genotypically characterised (using SNP markers) and this data combined with the phenotypic data. |
BACKGROUNDHaving completed a BSc in Applied Biology and an MSc in Biosciences at Nottingham University, I obtained a PhD in Plant and Environmental Sciences here at Warwick HRI. My project title was: Functional Genomics of Photoperiodic Bulb Initiation in Onion. This involved the isolation and characterisation of genes predicted to be involved in onion bulb initiation. |
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