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Cracking the pear genome: how students helped unlock a new tool for the pear industry
Pears are big business in the United States’ Pacific Northwest. But did you know that traditional pear breeding has remained largely unchanged for centuries? This slow process is difficult and costly, requiring the long-term commitment of labor, materials, and land-space resources. However, traditional pear breeding might get some help from genomics, thanks to a unique…
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Xin Li joins GENETICS as associate editor
New associate editor, Xiajing Tong, joins GENETICS
New study finds corn genome can gang up on multiple pathogens at once
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May the fourth be with you: Drosophila’s dot chromosome is open for business
New tools published in GENETICS enable researchers to study genes on the elusive fourth chromosome.
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Planting a seed for peanut diversity
Crunchy vs. smooth? Try fastigiata vs. hypogae. Mobilizing peanut diversity on smallholder farms can help improve global food production.
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New editor, Chun-Liang Pan, joins GENETICS
A new associate editor is joining GENETICS. We’re excited to welcome Chun-Liang Pan to the editorial team. Chun-Liang PanAssociate Editor Chun-Liang Pan is a Distinguished Professor at the Institute of Molecular Medicine, National Taiwan University (NTU), in Taipei, Taiwan. He received an MD and completed residency in clinical neurology at NTU, and then obtained a…
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Preeminent geneticists recognized with revamped GSA Awards
In 2022, GSA’s Board of Directors launched an audit to review the five major awards conferred by the Society. Today, we are thrilled to announce the recipients of the reimagined GSA Awards, including the new Genetics Society of America Early Career Medal. The scientists honored this year are recognized by their peers for their outstanding…
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New associate editor, Emily Clark, joins G3
A new associate editor is joining G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics. We’re excited to welcome Emily Clark to the editorial team. Emily ClarkAssociate Editor Emily Clark is a research group leader at the Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh, in Scotland. Her research group provides highly annotated genomes for farmed animals as resources to inform genome editing, genomic selection,…
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Steven Munger joins G3 as an associate editor
A new associate editor is joining G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics. We’re excited to welcome Steven Munger to the editorial team. Steven MungerAssociate Editor Steven Munger, PhD, is an Associate Professor at The Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, where he applies a systems genetics approach that integrates multi-scale genomics and genetic data from genetically diverse mice and…