Brenda Esperanza Garcia

Brenda came to the Maxwell lab in the Summer of 2006 as a part of a group of researchers from San Carlos University in Guatemala. She used PCR-based methods to characterize the introgression in chromosome 6 of breeding lines from Guatemala. She then returned in January 2007 for three months and June 2008 for 6 weeks. She also assists with the field work in Guatemala and has participated in the evaluation of germplasm for resistance to begomoviruses and Ralstonia solanacerarum. Currently, she is working on a project to determine the effectiveness of Ty3a, Ty2 and Ty4 in resistance to begomoviruses.

Publications:

Garcia, B.E., Graham, E., Jensen, K.S., Hanson, P., Mejía, L., and Maxwell, D.P. 2007. Co-dominant SCAR marker for detection of the begomovirus-resistance Ty2 locus derived from Solanum habrochaites in tomato germplasm. Tomato Genetic Cooperative Report 57:21-24.

Martin, C.T., Salus, M.S., Garcia, B.E., Jensen, K.S., Montes, L., Zea, C., Melgar, S., El Mehrach, K., Ortiz, J., Sanchez, A., Havey, M.J., Mejía, and Maxwell, D.P. 2007. Evaluation of PCR-based markers for scanning tomato chromosomes for introgressions from wild species. Tomato Genetic Cooperative Report 57:31-34.

Seah, S., Williamson, V.M., Garcia, B.E., Mejía, L., Salus, M.S., Martin, C.T., and Maxwell, D.P. 2007. Evaluation of a co-dominant SCAR marker for detection of the Mi-1 locus for resistance to root-knot nematode in tomato germplasm. Tomato Genetic Cooperative Report 57:37-40.

Garcia, B.E., Mejía, L., Melgar, S., Teni, R., Sánchez-Pérez, A., Barillas, A.C., Montes, L., Keuler, N.S., Salus, M.S., Havey, M.J., and Maxwell, D.P. 2008. Effectiveness of the Ty-3 introgression for conferring resistance in F3 families of tomato to bipartite begomoviruses in Guatemala. Rept. Tomato Genetic Coop. 58: (in press)

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Created: August, 2008 by Douglas Maxwell

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