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RICHARD E. VEILLEUX |
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Professor Office
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Research focuses on the genetic improvement of crops, with particular emphasis on inbred line development in potato, strawberry genomics, and thermotolerance in Phalaenopsis
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GRADUATE COURSES: |
HORT 5104: Introduction to Graduate
Studies and Research
Introduction to topics and processes important during and following graduate
study in a Land Grant institution. Topics include philosophy of the Land Grant
institution, the scientific process, experiment station project proposals,
literature reviews and library information retrieval systems, function of
statistics in research, manuscript preparation, oral and poster paper presentation,
peer review of manuscripts, grant proposals, and thesis and dissertation preparation.
Pass/fail only.
HORT 5304: Genetics and Breeding
of Horticultural Crops
Special topics in breeding and genetics, such as incompatibility, unreduced
gametes cytoplasmic male sterility, polyploidy and tissue culture, are covered,
and the impact of each on breeding of horticultural crops is assessed. Laboratories
involve hybridization, anther culture, embryo culture, and cytogenetics. Pre:
CSES 4144; Taught odd years.
HORT 5404: Plant Tissue Culture
The use of aseptic techniques for the culture and manipulation of plant cells,
tissues, and organs with emphasis on developmental, physiological, and genetic
applications. Pre: BIOL 3004, PPWS 3504, 3514. Taught even years.
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SERVICE TO PROFESSION: |
Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ
Culture: Associate Editor
ad hoc reviewer for many journals
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RECENT PUBLICATIONS: |
Oosumi T, HA Gruszewski, LA Blischak, AJ Baxter, PA Wadl, JL Shuman, RE Veilleux and V Shulaev. 2006. High-efficiency transformation of the diploid strawberry (Fragaria vesca) for functional genomics. Planta 223:1219-1230. http://www.springerlink.com/content/f1587822576h61t0/fulltext.pdf
Veilleux RE, H De Jong, 2006. Potato. In: Genetic Resources, Chromosome Engineering, and Crop Improvement, Vol. 3, Ram J. Singh (ed.), CRC Press, Boca Raton pp. 17-58
Lightbourn, GJ and RE Veilleux, 2006. Production and evaluation of somatic hybrids derived from monoploid potato. Amer. J. Potato Res. (in press)
Trader BW, HA Gruszewski, HL Scoggins and RE Veilleux. 2006. Somaclonal variation of Coreopsis regenerated from leaf explants. HortScience 41:749-752.
Chen PY, GR Buss, RE Veilleux and A Tolin. 2004. Establishment and maintenance of Soybean mosaic virus in soybean callus culture. Can J Plant Pathol 26:379-385.
Johnson, A.A.T. and R.E. Veilleux, 2003. Integration of transgenes into sexual polyploidization schemes for potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) Euphytica 133:125-138.
Johnson, A.A.T., B.A. Nault, and
R.E. Veilleux, 2003. Transmission
of a Bacillus thuringiensis cry3Aa transgene from diploid to tetraploid
potato using 4x x 2x hybridization: effect of ploidy increase
on transgene expression
and implications for TPS hybrid production. Plant Breeding 122:223-228.
Boluarte-Medina, T, E Fogelman, E Chani, AR Miller, I Levin, D Levy, RE Veilleux, 2002. Identification of molecular markers associated with leptine in reciprocal backcross families of diploid potato. Theor Appl Genet 105:1010-1018
Chani, E., V. Ashkenazi, J. Hillel, and R.E. Veilleux, 2002. Microsatellite marker analysis of an anther-derived potato family: skewed segregationand gene-centormere mapping. Genome 45:236-242.
Ashkenazi, V. E. Chani, U. Lavi, D. Levy, J. Hillel, and R.E. Veilleux, 2001. Development of microsatellite markers in potato and their use in phylogenetic and fingerprinting analyses. Genome 44:50-62.
Boluarte-Medina, T. and R.E. Veilleux, 2001. Phenotypic characterization and bulk segregant analysis of anther culture response in two backcross families of diploid potato. Plant Cell Tiss Org Cult 68:277-286.
Lough, R.C., J.M. Varrieur and R.E. Veilleux, 2001. Selection inherent in monoploid derivation mechanisms for potato. Theor Appl Genet 103:178-184.
Johnson, A.A.T. and R.E. Veilleux. 2000. Somatic hybridization and application in plant breeding. Plant Breeding Rev 20:167-225.
Veilleux, R.E. 2000. Haploid plant production: Pollen/anther/ovule culture, pp 841-846 in: Spier, R.E. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Cell Technology, Set Volumes 1-3. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York.
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LABORATORY PERSONNEL: |
Suzanne M. Piovano, Laboratory Specialist Senior
Aaron J. Baxter, Research Specialist Senior
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CURRENT GRADUATE STUDENTS: |
Yeun Kyung Chang (Ph.D.
candidate)
Research: Gamete selection in Phalaenopsis
Juan Ruiz (Ph.D. candidate)
Research: Strawberry insertional mutagenesis and genomics
Sarah Hudson Holt (Ph.D.
candidate)
Research: Strawberry flavonoid metabolism and genomics
Sukhwinder Aulakh Singh
(Ph.D. candidate)
Research: Jerusalem artichoke as a bioenergy crop
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RECENT GRADUATE STUDENTS: |
Vishal Arora (M.S. 2006)
Thesis: Characterization of polymorphic microsatellites in strawberry and
their transferability to other genera in the Rosaceae family
Aaron Baxter (M.S. 2005)
Thesis: Regeneration and transformation of Impatiens walleriana using
cotyledonary node culture
Leslie Blischak (M.S. 2005)
Thesis: Gametophytic selection for thermotolerance in Phalaenopsis
Rahul Gupta (M.S. 2005)
Thesis: PCR-based synthesis of codon optimized cry2Aa gene for production
of shoot and fruit borer (Leucinodes orbonalis) resistant eggplant
(Solanum melongena L.) cultivars
Gordon Lightbourn (Ph.D.
2004)
Dissertation: Development of intermonoploid somatic hybrids of potato and
their molecular analysis based on polymorphism for retroelement Tst1
Rosie Palumbo (M.S. 2003)
Thesis: The potential for green fluorescent protein as a screening tool in
the production of haploid potato plants
Jeffrey Skoneczka (M.S.
2004)
Thesis: Inheritance and expression of Cry3Aa and PVY-O coat protein
transgenes in diploid and tetraploid potato
Phillip Wadl (M.S. 2005)
Thesis: Improved regeneration and Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of wild strawberry (Fragaria vesca L.)
John Varrieur,
M.S., 2002
Thesis: AFLP marker analysis of monoploid potato
Alexander
A. Johnson, Ph.D., 2001
Dissertation: Effect of ploidy elevation, copy number and parent-of-origin
on transgene expression in potato
Updated 3/8/07