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Our lab at IGCAST, TTU integrates genome engineering and genomics tools to (1) discover novel traits to improve disease resistance, nutrient uptake, and seed composition and (2) develop high-throughput technologies to improve genetic transformation and gene-editing platforms in recalcitrant crop species.

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News and Announcements

Congratulations to Leonidas for winning 2nd place in Oral Presentation at PSS-Symposium-2024

Congratulations to Pallavi for winning 3rd place in Oral presentation at SICNA conference 2024

Congratulations to Micyala Lamb for receiving the USDA – Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Grant to work on ‘Development of Active Root System Architecture of Upland Cotton’

Congratulations to Pallavi and Arjun Ojha for receiving the prestigious Helen DeVitt Jones Graduate Fellowship for 2022-2023

Congratulations to Jessica Kennedy for receiving the Undergraduate Research Grant (URG) from Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources Davis College.

Congratulations to Lois and Leonidas for winning 1st place in Poster presentation and 2nd place in Oral Presentation at 2022-PSS-Symposium

Recent Work

Soybean Root Nuclei Isolation for Single Cell Transcriptomics
(D’Agostino et al. 2023 https://doi.org/10.3390/plants12132466)

Tissue culture-free gene-editing in tobacco (Image: Arjun Ojha, Ph.D. Student)

High-quality protoplast isolation and transformation in soybean
Patil et al. 2022 (https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-2164-6_13)

Isolation of Protoplast from N. benthamiana tobacco leaf

Soybean hairy root transformed with a green fluorescent protein and CRISPR-Cas9 reagents
(Image: Vikas Devkar, Postdoc associate)

Identification of soybean germplasm with improved nutrient uptake

Dhingra et al. 2024 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envexpbot.2023.105643

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Gunvant B. Patil, Ph. D.

Assistant Professor,

Institute of Genomics for Crop Abiotic Stress Tolerance (IGCAST)

Department of Plant and Soil Science

1006, Canton Ave. Experimental Science Building II (Office 210B)

Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409

Phone (O) 806-834-1064