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Genomics

• Collaboration with Jonathan Lynch in Horticulture and Bill Sharpe in Forest Resources to characterize the effect of manganese soil toxicity on gene expression in forest trees
• Collaboration with The American Chestnut Foundation to help transfer blight resistance from Chinese chestnut species
• Collaboration with Mark Guiltinan to develop genome resources for cocoa (JD Swanson)
• Collaboration with Claude dePamphilis on Floral Genome Project
• GreenBAC Project, University of Washington

Conservation Genetics

• Collaboration with Jay Stauffer in WFS to assess hybridization between fish species using DNA markers
• Collaboration with Mike Steele at Wilkes University on squirrel seed dispersal patterns in oaks (Wilkes undergraduates)

Christmas Tree Biotechnology

• Micropropagation systems for cultivars
• Insect resistance for Fraser fir

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