Interspecific Reproductive Barriers in Tomato

 
 
 


 
Welcome

Interspecific Reproductive Barriers in Tomato (IRBT) is a collaborative scientific endeavor to identify and understand the biological processes underlying species isolation within the Tomato family.

Our team includes five collaborative laboratories from around the United States that contribute to a multidiscipline research approach. By using the tomato family as a model, specialists in genetics, molecular biology, proteomics, cell biology, and molecular biology are working together to tackling one of the most fundamental scientific question!

What reproductive mechanisms contribute to speciation?

IRBT in Bloomington Indiana 2012

Participants at the 6th Bi-annual IRBT meeting in Bloomington, IN at the University of Indiana, May 2012

Members from left to right:

Top Row - Bruce McClure, Ph.D., Jennifer Petersen, Ph.D., Natasha Sherman, Ph.D.

Middle Row - Barbara Leidl, Ph.D., Roger Chetelat, Ph.D., Wentao Li, Ph.D., Alejandro Tovar-Mendez, Ph.D., You Soon Baek, Amy Ashford, April Randle, Ph.D.

Bottom Row - Patricia Bedinger, Ph.D., Matthew Hahn, Ph.D., Leonie Moyle, Ph.D.,

 

 

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New Release of raw Tomato Style iTRAQ Proteomics Data

To view the data, click here

Raw Tomato Pollen Proteomics and 454 Sequences

We're happy to pre-release raw Pollen Proteomic sequence reads and 454 sequence reads for public access.To view the data, click here

The Tomato Genome Sequence. (December '09)

Sol Genomics Network (SGN) has published the tomato genome. Here is a link to SGN who host this release. The Tomato genome is the first of any solanaceae species. It will now act as a reference for future solanaceous genomes to be sequenced including potato, pepper, and many of the wild Tomato species.

 

India hosts Solanaceae Workshop. (November '09) Read a seminar abstract about using pachytene chomosomes for tomato cytology from Dr. Stack

Pollen tube staining protocol comparison.(November '09)View the interactive ppt.

 

IRBT goes to Peru!(March '09)Check out the symposium abstracts and read the blog posts.

Public release of(Dec '08)

  1. pFCM100 Fish Cassette for Mutagenesis &
  2. Pollen and unpollinated style Proteomic Sequences
  3. S. pennellii aweruoaiwej

Also...

Flower pollination Protocol Movies

 

 

 

Tomato haikus:

I say Solanum

you say lycopersicum

just say tomato

Paul Covey

 

Emasculation

pollination, frustration

where's your anther been?

Ashley Denney

 
 
 
 
 
     

This website is designed and maintained by Amy Ashford . Funding support comes from the National Science Foundation grants DBI-0605200 and MCB-1127059 and hosted by the Department of Biology at Colorado State University.