RUI: Fine scale phylogenetic relationships in Lycieae (Solanaceae): A multilocus approach for understanding biogeography, polyploidy, and reproductive evolution

RUI：枸杞科（茄科）的精细系统发育关系：了解生物地理学、多倍体和生殖进化的多位点方法

• 批准号: 0843364
• 负责人: Jill Miller
• 金额: $ 40万
• 依托单位: Amherst College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-05-01 至 2018-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0843364&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RUI; Fine; scale; phylogenetic; relationships

The tomato family (Solanaceae) includes many wild species that are excellent models for understanding how plants reproduce, whether they hybridize, and how their genomes evolve. This project will develop new genetic markers and use them to study evolutionary relationships among species and populations in the tomato relative Lycium. Lycium is distributed throughout the world and has evolved many complex ways of breeding. This project combines studies in the field and in the lab to discover the history of species distributions worldwide and the evolution of sexual strategies in flowering plants. This work thus uses genomic resources developed for the economically important tomato family applies those to an evolutionary study. This research will also contribute significantly to undergraduate education and training by involving diverse students at various stages of their careers in all aspects of the project, including travels to collect plant materials and attendance to professional meetings to present their research. Students will be trained in molecular methods and sequence analysis, population genetics, and phylogenetic systematics and reproductive evolution. Contributions will be made to summer programs that provide training in molecular biology, systematics and genomics for high school science teachers, as well as to curricular development at Amherst College.

番茄家族（茄科）包括许多野生物种，它们是了解植物如何繁殖，是否杂交以及基因组如何进化的极好模型。 本项目将开发新的遗传标记，并利用它们来研究番茄近缘种枸杞属植物种间和居群间的进化关系。 枸杞分布在世界各地，并进化出许多复杂的育种方式。 该项目结合了实地和实验室的研究，以发现全球物种分布的历史和开花植物性策略的演变。因此，这项工作使用了为经济上重要的番茄家族开发的基因组资源，并将其应用于进化研究。 这项研究也将大大有助于本科教育和培训，涉及不同的学生在他们的职业生涯的各个阶段，在项目的各个方面，包括旅行收集植物材料和出席专业会议，介绍他们的研究。 学生将接受分子方法和序列分析，群体遗传学，系统发育分类学和生殖进化的培训。 捐款将用于为高中科学教师提供分子生物学、系统学和基因组学培训的暑期课程，以及阿默斯特学院的课程开发。