James McNellie
Former Horticulture - MS
Bio
- Degree Program: M.S., Horticultural Science
- Previous Degree: B.S., Plant Genetics and Breeding, Purdue University; B.A., Economics and History, Indiana University
- Advisor: Dr. Dilip Panthee
- Thesis: Mapping QTLs for Fruit Quality and Horticultural Traits in Fresh Market Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) Using Intra-specific SNP Markers.
- Thesis Date: 2015-12-17
Research
I am working with Dr. Dilip Panthee at the Mountain Horticulture Crops Research and Extension Center on quantitative disease resistance for Bacterial Speck in fresh market tomatoes. The use of a 7,700 SNP array allows for an intraspecific cross to be used for a mapping population, something of a rarity in tomatoes because of low genetic diversity. By not having to contend with deleterious wild type alleles, moving resistance loci into other lines should be significantly quicker.