Tomato

The TomatoLab in the Department of Plant Science and Landscape Architecture at the University of Maryland, College Park seeks a postdoctoral associate to lead a project characterising a novel gene that controls flowering time in tomato, a joint effort with USDA ARS. The work uses genetic mapping to characterise the gene and reverse genetics (CRISPR-based mutagenesis) for functional validation, together with functional assays, gene expression profiling and phenotypic characterisation of the mutant and other flowering-time genes. The postdoc manages experimental workflows, data analysis and time

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