Prof. Albert Glenn Abbott at Clemson University visited Wuhan Botanical Garden on Oct. 24. His visit was at the invitation of Prof. HAN Yuepeng.

Prof. Albert Glenn Abbott delivered a lecture entitled “The peach genome: a model for fruiting and forest tree genetics and genomics”. He explained how to combine QTL mapping and high throughout re-sequencing with the identification of genes in fruit trees  to the staff and students. This method has been applied successfully in the isolation of peach gene, including ever-growing gene, chilling requirement and pillar trait. According to Prof. Abbott, the gene mapping of peach could be used as the reference map for other fruit trees such as apricot tree, plum tree, and chestnut. In addition, Prof. Abbott also introduces a model of fastrack breeding.

Prof. Abbott is currently working on research problems in molecular biology and molecular genetics in both plants and animal systems. His research mainly focuses on the study of genes important to growth and development in higher plants, molecular mapping and genes important to pathogen resistance in trees, structural and functional genomics of deciduous trees.

Know more about Prof. Abbott, please visit: http://www.clemson.edu/cafls/departments/biosci/faculty_staff/abbott_a.html 

Prof. Abbott delivering lecture (Image by SONG Zhichun)