Andrew Cosgrove
Andrew obtained his PhD in molecular biology from the University of Dundee in 2005. He joined Genome Biology in 2009 after a post doctoral research position at the University of Sheffield investigating chromosome positioning during meiosis in yeast.
The fascination of plant genomes
At Genome Biology we are as fascinated with plants as the next botanist and over the last couple of months we've seen some excellent plant research publish in the journal. Here, Senior Editor Andrew Cosgrove highlights a few of his favorites.
Lin Zeng and colleagues sequenced the genomes of 93 different pistachio cultivars and 49 wild trees.
Images taken from article.
As a genomics journal, genome sequencing is our bread and butter, and we have had a couple of large-scale genome sequencing studies in crops. Lin Zeng and colleagues looked at pistachio. They sequenced the genomes of 93 different pistachio cultivars, and 49 wild trees, including some from different species of Pistacia. By comparing the genomes, they were able to date the domestication of the species to around 8000 years ago, and find that, perhaps unsurprisingly, farmers have selected trees with larger seed size.
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