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Microarray
Collaborations:
In nature plants are exposed to a variety of biotic and abiotic stresses. In collaboration with several USDA scientists, we are studying the expression of genes found in resistant and susceptible soybeans in response to viral, bacterial, and fungal pathogens in addition to those expressed upon invasion by the soybean cyst nematode. Soybean mosaic virus, bacterial blight (Pseudomonas), sudden death syndrome (Fusarium) and soybean cyst nematodes are common pathogens and pests of soybean. For more information click here. The Matthews laboratory collaborates with Dupont the United Soybean Board in a project to study gene expression in soybean cultivars resistant and sensitive to race 1 and race 14 of the SCN. For more information click here. We also have in-house collaborations to study (1) Ascaris-swine
interactions and (2) Coccidiosis-chicken
interactions. The Matthews laboratory encourages collaborations with other scientists interested in soybean and soybean-pest/pathogen interactions. We print microarrays from a collection of cDNAs currently focused on soybean roots and root-pest/pathogen interactions. This collection is expanding to include cDNAs form libraries prepared using other tissues exposed to pests and pathogens. Collaborators provide tissue samples or extracted RNAs. They may also provide cDNAs. We print and hybridize microarrays and prepare data in a password-protected, web-based format so it can be viewed on-line and used by collaborators. |
