NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biology FY 2020: Developing a maize meristem model to assess the impact of CLAVATA signaling on yield traits

2020 财年 NSF 生物学博士后奖学金：开发玉米分生组织模型以评估 CLAVATA 信号对产量性状的影响

基本信息

批准号：
2010642
负责人：
Penelope Lindsay
金额：
$ 21.6万
依托单位：
Lindsay, Penelope L
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Fellowship Award
财政年份：
2021
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2021-01-01 至 2023-12-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2010642&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship Biology FY

项目摘要

This action funds an NSF National Plant Genome Initiative Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology for FY 2020. The fellowship supports a research and training plan in a host laboratory for the Fellow who also presents a plan to broaden participation in biology. The title of the research and training plan for this fellowship to Dr. Penelope Lindsay is “Developing a maize meristem model to assess the impact of CLAVATA signaling on yield traits". The host institution for the fellowship is Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and the sponsoring scientist is Dr. David Jackson.The U.S. is the world’s largest producer of maize, producing 384 million tons annually. With a changing environment and burgeoning global population, we need to maximize maize yield while minimizing agricultural land use. One way to increase maize yield per plant is to increase the amount of seed produced per ear. The maize ear arises from a group of undifferentiated stem cells called the apical meristem. Subtle genetic changes between maize lines affect meristem growth and can have big impacts on yield. This project will build a computational framework to understand how genes function together to regulate the meristem and to form the ear and seeds. Maize lines are very diverse, and this will be used to our advantage to find how differences in these gene networks contribute to making the maize ear. This project will provide the fellow with training in maize genetics and genomics, coupled with bioinformatics and mathematical modeling techniques gleaned through collaborative research. Outreach in plant genetics will occur through High School student and teacher training in plant biology at GenSpace, a community lab space in Brooklyn, NY.This project aims to understand the complex regulation of maize ear development through analysis of the nested association mapping (NAM) founders, a diverse panel of maize lines which vary in both meristem and inflorescence size. Precise phenotypic and transcriptomic analysis of these lines will inform the development of a maize inflorescence meristem model. The model will be used to modulate spatial and quantitative gene expression in silico to generate predictions for effects on maize yield. These predictions can be applied in precision breeding to maximize yield per plant, reducing land use and minimizing agricultural environmental impact. Data generated from this project will be shared in peer-reviewed publications and be presented at national scientific conferences. In addition, transcriptomic data generated from this project will be uploaded to the NCBI Gene Expression Omnibus (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/). Code generated from modeling the genetic control of the maize inflorescence meristem will be shared on GitHub (https://github.com/).This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该行动为2020财年的生物学博士研究金提供了NSF国家植物基因组倡议。该奖学金支持该研究员的主机实验室研究和培训计划，该研究员还提出了扩大生物学参与计划的计划。佩内洛普·林赛（Penelope Lindsay）博士的该奖学金的研究和培训计划的标题是“开发玉米生组织模型，以评估克拉瓦塔信号对产量特征的影响”。奖学金的主持机构是冷泉港实验室，赞助科学家是戴维·杰克逊（David Jackson）博士。美国是世界上最大的玉米生产国，每年生产3.84亿吨。随着环境变化和迅速增长的全球人口，我们需要最大程度地提高玉米产量，同时最大程度地减少农业用地的利用。每植物增加玉米产量的一种方法是增加每耳朵产生的种子量。玉米的耳朵来自一组未分化的干细胞，称为顶部分生组织。玉米线之间的细微遗传变化会影响分生组织的生长，并可能对产量产生重大影响。该项目将建立一个计算框架，以了解基因如何共同起作用以调节分生组织并形成耳朵和种子。玉米线非常多样化，这将用于查找这些基因网络中的差异如何有助于制造玉米耳朵。该项目将为研究员提供玉米遗传学和基因组学的培训，再加上通过协作研究收集的生物信息学和数学建模技术。植物遗传学的外展活动将通过高中生和纽约布鲁克林的社区实验室空间的植物生物学培训进行，该项目旨在通过分析嵌套关联创始人（NAM）创始人的复杂调节，这是一种玉米线的分析，这是一种玉米潜水者小组，它们在纳入物质和繁殖和花序大小中都不利。这些线的精确表型和转录组分析将为玉米花序分生组织模型的发展提供信息。该模型将用于调节硅中的空间和定量基因表达，以产生对玉米产量影响的预测。这些预测可用于精确育种，以最大程度地提高每植物的产量，减少土地使用并最大程度地减少农业环境影响。该项目产生的数据将在同行评审的出版物中共享，并在国家科学会议上介绍。此外，该项目生成的转录组数据将上传到NCBI基因表达综合（https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/）。通过建模玉米花序分生组织的遗传控制产生的代码将在GitHub（https://github.com/）上共享。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响评估标准来评估值得支持。