Education:

Ph.D., Plant Breeding & Genetics, Pennsylvania State University

M.S., Horticulture, Pennsylvania State University

B.S., Horticulture, Pennsylvania State University

Regeneration, vector construction, and transformation strategies for celery, blueberry, and tart cherry.

 

• Song, G.-Q. and K. C. Sink. 2005.  Transformation of Montmorency sour cherry (prunus cerasus L.) and Gisela 6 (P.cerasus x P. canescens) cherry rootstock mediated by Agrobacterium tumefaciens, Plant Cell Reports.  DOI 10.1007/00299-005-0038-9.
• Song, G.-Q. and K.C. Sink.  2005.  Optimizing shoot regeneration and transient expression factors for Agrobacterum tumefaciens transformation of sour cherry (Prunus cerasus L.) cultivar Montmorency.  Scientia Horticulturae 106:60-69.
• Song, G.-Q. and K.C. Sink.  2004. Agrobacterium tumefaciens, - mediated transformation of blueberry (Vaccinium cohymbosum L.) Plant Cell Reports 23:475-484.
• Kuhl, J.C., F. Cheung, Q. Yuan, J. McCallum, W. Martin, Y. Tarekegn, K.C. Sink, M. Jenderek, J. Prince, C.D. Town and M.J. Harvey. 2004.  11,008 unique ESTs of onion (Allium cepa) reveal expressed sequence qand genomic differences between the monocot orders Asparagales and Poales. Plant Cell 16:114-125.

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