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A Telemetric, Gravimetric Platform for Real-Time Physiological Phenotyping of Plant–Environment Interactions
Published on: August 5, 2020
Why are some plants taller? Researchers on the unveiling of genetic variation associated with complex quantitative
Giovanni Marques de Castro1, Felipe Campelo2, Francisco Pereira Lobo3
1Nonhuman Primate Reagent Resource, UMASS Chan Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Abstract:
Francisco Pereira Lobo, Giovanni Marques de Castro, and Felipe Campelo are part of an international team of collaborators that developed CALANGO, a comparative genomics tool to investigate quantitative genotype-phenotype relationships. Their Patterns article highlights how the tool integrates species-centric data to perform genome-wide search and detect genes potentially involved in the emergence of complex quantitative traits across species. Here, they talk about their view of data science, their experience with interdisciplinary research, and the potential applications of their tool.
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