Serena Gjesvold IPREFER 2020 Integrated Plant Systems–Undergraduate Research Experience Presentation
Channel: IPREFER Pennycress
Date: 2020-09-11

IPS-URE Research Fellow Serena Gjesvold (University of Minnesota) presents her work on pennycress genetics at the 2020 IPREFER annual meeting.

Serena’s project, mentored by  IPREFER Co-PI Prof. David Marks focused on increasing seed size in pennycress through forward and reverse genetics approaches. She assessed the pod fill and seed weight of several mutant lines derived through chemical mutagenesis and induced ploidy and compared them to the control, MN106. Additionally, she studied the ARF and SWEET gene families to determine if and how the mutations of those genes impact seed size in pennycress.

IPREFER is supported by Agriculture and Food Research Initiative Competitive Grant No. 2019-69012-29851 from the National Institute of Food and Agriculture