High-Throughput Plant Phenotyping for Developing Novel Biostimulants: From Lab to Field or From Field to Lab?

Seed biology – from lab to field

From the Lab to the Field

Genomic selection in loblolly pine - from lab to field

Background Tree breeding is logistically complex and expensive, and breeders have long sought to use molecular markers to accelerate breeding. A candidate gene approach based on testing for association between the presence of DNA sequence variation in or near candidate genes, and phenotypic variation in a population has long been explored [1,2]. However, using candidate gene approach (QTLs) has...

From the Lab to the Field: Steve Roth - A Memoriam

IN late 2003, one of Steve’s largest projects was going to end in a month. His company, MAYA Viz, was small and a major project ending without followup work would put a strain on the whole organization. Prior to that time, Steve and his team at MAYA Viz had spent five years, on their own and in the DARPA Command Post of the Future (CPOF) program, building a research prototype of a distributedwo...

Peers at Work: From the Field to the Lab

Peers at work: From the field to the lab by Roel van Veldhuizen, Hessel Oosterbeek and Joep Sonnemans* In an in influential study, Mas and Moretti (2009) found that “worker effort is positively related to the productivity of workers who see him, but not workers who do not see him.” They interpret this as evidence that social pressure can reduce free riding. In this paper we report an attempt to...