• Advent of Genomics in Blueberry 

      Die, Jose V.; Rowland, Lisa J. (Springer, 2013)
      Blueberry is a high value crop with recognized nutritional characteristics that has lead to an increase in consumer demand over the last several years. With its increasing agricultural and commercial importance, genetic ...
    • Design and sampling plan optimization for RT-qPCR experiments in plants: a case study in blueberry 

      Die, Jose V.; Román, Belén; Flores, Fernando; Rowland, Lisa J. (Frontiers, 2016)
      The qPCR assay has become a routine technology in plant biotechnology and agricultural research. It is unlikely to be technically improved, but there are still challenges which center around minimizing the variability ...
    • Elucidating cold acclimation pathway in blueberry by transcriptome profiling 

      Die, Jose V.; Rowland, Lisa J. (Elsevier, 2014)
      A fundamental goal of cold acclimation research is to understand the mechanisms responsible for the increase in freezing tolerance in response to environmental cues. Changes in gene expression underlie some of the biochemical ...
    • Global patterns of protein abundance during the development of cold hardiness in blueberry 

      Die, Jose V.; Rajeev, Arora; Rowland, Lisa J. (Elsevier, 2016)
      To gain a better understanding of the cold acclimation progression in blueberry, we investigated the proteome-level changes that occur in flower buds with increasing exposure to chilling temperatures using the 2D-DIGE ...
    • Superior Cross-Species Reference Genes: A Blueberry Case Study 

      Die, Jose V.; Rowland, Lisa J. (Public Library of Science (PLOS), 2013)
      The advent of affordable Next Generation Sequencing technologies has had major impact on studies of many crop species, where access to genomic technologies and genome-scale data sets has been extremely limited until now. ...