Young Lab at the University of Minnesota Research focusing on legume genomics and the evolution of plant-microbe interactions

Nevin Dale Young, Principal Investigator
Distinguished McKnight University Professor
Department of Plant Pathology / 495 Borlaug Hall (Mailing address)
Department of Plant Biology / 250 BioScience Center
University of Minnesota
St. Paul, Minnesota 55108

Voice: 612-625-2225 / Lab: 612-625-2221 / Fax: 612-625-9728
Office: 320 Cargill Building for Microbial and Plant Genomics
Lab: 350 Cargill Building for Microbial and Plant Genomics
Email: neviny@umn.edu

Interesting Links

• Solutions magazine: For Ancient Plants, Two Genes Were Definitely Better Than One
• Science Daily magazine: Genome Sequence Sheds New Light on How Plants Evolved Nitrogen-Fixing Symbioses
• Medicagohapmap.org: A Website for the Medicago truncatula Hapmap Initiative
  

• NSF Project: A Medicago HapMap as a Platform for Exploring the Genetics of Legume Symbioses
• NSF Project: Molecular Evolution of Legume Disease Resistance Genes
• NSF Project: Metabolomics and Association Mapping of Saponin Biochemistry in Medicago 

Selected Recent Publications

Ameline-Torregrosa C, Wang BB, Denny RL, O’Bleness M, Despande S, Zhu H, Roe B, Young ND, Cannon SB (2008) Identification and characterization of NBS-LRR encoded genes in the model plant Medicago truncatula. Plant Physiology 146: 5-21.


Ashfield T, Egan AN, Pfeil BE, Chen NWG, Podicheti R, Ratnaparkhe MB, Ameline-Torregrosa C, Denny R, Cannon S, Doyle JJ, Geffroy V, Roe BA, Saghai Maroof MA, Young ND, Innes RW (2012) The impact of polyploidy on the evolution of a complex NB-LRR resistance gene cluster in soybean. Plant Physiology: pp.112.195040.


Branca A, Paape T, Zhou P, Briskine R, Farmer AD, Mudge J, Bharti AK, Woodward JE, May GD, Gentzbittel L, Ben C, Denny R, Sadowsky MJ, Ronfort J, Bataillon T, Young ND, Tiffin P (2011) Whole-genome nucleotide diversity, recombination, and linkage-disequilibrium in the model legume Medicago truncatula. Proceedings National Academy of Sciences USA 108: E864-870.


Cannon SB, Sterck L, Rombauts S, Sato S, Cheung F, Gouzy JP, Wang X, Mudge J, Vasdewani J, Schiex T, Spannagl M, Monaghan E, Nicholson C, Humphray SJ, Schoof H, Mayer KFX, Rogers J, Quétier F, Oldroyd GE, Debellé F, Cook DR, Roe BA, Town CD, Tabata S, Vandepeer Y, Young ND (2006) Legume evolution viewed through the Medicago truncatula and Lotus japonicus genomes. Proceedings National Academy of Sciences USA 103: 14959-14964.

Young ND, Debellé F, Oldroyd GE, Geurts R, Cannon SB, Udvardi MK, Benedito VA, Mayer KFX, Gouzy J, Schoof H, et al. (2011) The Medicago genome provides insight into the evolution of rhizobial symbioses. Nature 480: 520-524.


Young ND, Bharti AK (2012) Genome-enabled insights into legume biology. Annual Review of Plant Biology 63: 283-305.


Young ND, Udvardi M (2009) Translating Medicago truncatula genomics to crop legumes. Current Opinions in Plant Biology 12: 193-201.

For general questions about the project or this web page, please contact: neviny@umn.edu
For questions regarding DNA markers, BAC libraries, or germplasm please contact: denny004@umn.edu
For questions regarding Medicago hapmap and genome sequencing website, please contact: brisk022@umn.edu

© 2012 Nevin Dale Young and the Regents of the University of Minnesota
The University of Minnesota is an equal opportunity educator and employer.