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Written by Kayce Clark
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Monday, 22 October 2007 |
 Governor Rick Perry has made prominence in the technology industry a high priority for the future of Texas, and through a grant from the Emerging Technology Fund (ETF), Texas Tech University is on the cutting edge of plant genomics research and development. Texas Tech received $1.94 million as the first superior research award from the Governor’s ETF program to develop the International Center for Excellence in Agricultural Genomics and Biotechnology. The ETF award was instrumental in recruiting renowned cotton researcher Dr. Thea Wilkins to head the newly created center at Tech.
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Written by Kayce Clark
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Wednesday, 24 October 2007 |
 In the middle of the largest cotton patch on the planet, Texas Tech is looking at cotton in a whole new way – a way that could change the world.
Cottonseed oil, a by-product of the cotton plant, is the focus of coordinated research on the Tech campus to develop a source of renewable energy in the form of biofuel.
Because there is already existing demand for cotton production in the high plains area, as well as an existing infrastructure, cotton could have an advantage as a Texas solution to energy problems.
Dick Auld, a Rockwell professor of plant genetics and breeding at Tech, has worked to develop biofuels for 29 years, the last 16 of those in Lubbock. Auld said renewable fuels are his passion.
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Written by Kayce Clark
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Wednesday, 24 October 2007 |
The Functional Genomics Center (FGC) has created a stimulating environment to bring researchers together to discuss and debate issues related to genomic technology at Texas Tech. The Microarray Discussion Group is part of the education and outreach arm of the FGC under the leadership of Dr. Thea Wilkins. It currently meets every two weeks with Dr. Magdy Alabady, a senior researcher in Wilkins’ lab, to discuss topics and applications of microarray technology. Since its inception in January 2007, membership has steadily grown and now includes more than 20 participants. Most of the current participants are faculty, although several students and post-doctoral associates are in regular attendance.
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Written by Kayce Clark
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Wednesday, 24 October 2007 |
Dr. Dick Auld was named the Texas Tech recipient of the Big XII Hero award at the Big XII Center for Economic Development, Innovation and Commercialization (CEDIC) Conference on March 1, 2007, in Kansas City, Missouri.
Auld, a Rockwell Endowed Professor in the Department of Plant and Soil Science at Tech, was one of the first 12 “Heroes”, one from each university in the Big XII, to be recognized
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Written by Thea Wilkins
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Monday, 22 October 2007 |
To implement long-term strategies to enhance cotton fiber yield and quality, we need to understand how many genes are required to make a fiber (the “transcriptome”), and what role each gene plays in determining fiber quality.
The cotton fiber transcriptome, which is currently the most studied of any single cell in the plant kingdom, requires about 22,000 genes!
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