In early December, NSF informed us that The Echinacea Project will be funded from April 2011 – April 2016!
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This file, labelInfoForKate.csv, is for making new envelope labels. I only need 680 positions/site, because the seeds will be in between the plug points. So attached is a .doc and an R file w/ the script to create 3 sites with ~680 positions in each. I have also attached the resulting .csv file, 3 columns “site”, “row”, and “pos”. Here’s the breakdown: Next steps:
For creating new labels: KG_Purchased Seed EnvelopesWS.csv Plug Datasheet_D-A_02July2010.csv
For verifying status of plugs: We’re off to a great start this season. We’ve made good progress on our ongoing projects and folks are well on their way with their independent projects. We had better keep moving because the earliest plant in the Common Garden started flowering on the 21st! Here’s a list of independent projects for Summer 2010:
I attached a pdf file of our ongoing projects. Hi, Team Echinacea — Its Diedre and Jake with an update from the lab at the Chicago Botanic Garden. In spite of several setbacks, including a crowded lab and a power failure that shut the lab down for an entire day, we’ve been able to create a lot of data. Currently, we have ten microsatellite primers working which we use for paternity and genetic diversity analysis. Recently we’ve been able to up our extractions to over 150 samples a week and 10 PCR’s a day! Jake and I started extracting the samples that Jennifer and I took in Minnesota several weeks ago. Jake is using these for his poster on population structure. He will be looking at whether there is interbreeding or inbreeding among the nine remenant populations we sampled (East of Riley, Anenson, Steven’s Approach, Landfill, Railroad Crossing, Staphenson Prairie Preserve, KJ, and Ness). Jake has already found some interesting results with the use of Structure and FStat. The poster I am working on will look at the diversity of pollen donors with regard to flowering on individual and population levels. Here are some pictures of our work in the lab:
Jake and I making DNA extractions a little more fun than they already are through use of our artistic talents.
Some preliminary results for Jake’s project. |
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