James M. Bradeen

TL;DR: The cloning of the major resistance gene RB in S. bulbocastanum is reported by using a map-based approach in combination with a long-range (LR)-PCR strategy, demonstrating that LR-PCR is a valuable approach to isolate genes that cannot be maintained in the bacterial artificial chromosome system.

TL;DR: Humanity depends on fewer than a dozen of the approximately 300,000 species of flowering plants for 80% of its caloric intake and capitalize on only a fraction of the genetic diversity that resides within each of these species.

TL;DR: It is suggested that methylation in the MYB10 promoter is more variable in 'Honeycrisp' than in 'Royal Gala', leading to more variable color patterns in the peel of this cultivar.

TL;DR: Examination of soil bacterial community composition and diversity in relation to plant "host" species, plant community richness, bacterial antagonists, and soil edaphic characteristics suggests that plant species influences on soil bacterial communities depend on plant community diversity and are mediated through the effects of plant-derived resources on antagonistic soil microbes.

TL;DR: Somatic hybrids between potato and Solanum bulbocastanum, a wild diploid Mexican species, are highly resistant to late blight, caused by Phytophthora infestans, by noting randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) and restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) markers that are closely linked to the resistance.