Elizabeth L. Ogden

TL;DR: Efforts to sequence the transcriptome of the commercial highbush blueberry cultivar Bluecrop and use the sequences to identify genes associated with cold acclimation and fruit development and develop SSR markers for mapping studies indicate that this large collection of 454 ESTs will be a valuable resource for identifying genes that are potentially differentially expressed.

TL;DR: Nineteen of the major strawberry cultivars grown in the United States and Canada were examined for AFLP markerpolymorphisms, demonstrating the usefulness of AFLP markers forcultivar identification.

TL;DR: Cold hardiness and deacclimation kinetics under fi eld conditions for 12 Vaccinium genotypes with different germplasm compositions and expected mid-winter bud hardiness levels were investigated and indicated that V. constablaei was particularly late to deacclimate.

TL;DR: Investigation of deacclimation kinetics of blueberry cultivars with different germplasm compositions and mid-winter bud hardiness levels concluded that down-regulation of the 14-kDa dehydrin most closely mirrored the loss in cold hardiness during deacClimation, and, therefore, may be involved in regulation of bud dehardening.