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The Matthews' Laboratory
The United States Department of Agriculture
Agricultural Research Service
Plant Science Institute
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Welcome to Dr.
Ben Matthews' laboratory, part of the Soybean Genomics and
Improvement Laboratory (SGIL)
at the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA-ARS)
Beltsville Agricultural Research Center (BARC),
Beltsville, Maryland.
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The
Soybean G’nome Home |
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Soybean
is the major grain legume crop in the United States with an estimated
value of over 10.6 billion dollars. The main
pest of soybean in the United States is the soybean cyst nematode (SCN).
SCN causes up to one billion dollars in loss off soybean each year in the
United States. Soybean rust is a new
disease in the U.S. found in November, 2004. It may become as important as
SCN in the U.S. Our laboratory’s
focus is to broaden the resistance of soybean to the soybean cyst nematode
and to soybean rust. |
Microarrays are being used at the USDA, Beltsville to study
the response of soybean to the soybean cyst nematode and soybean rust.
The primary goals of the Matthews' laboratory are:
1) to identify soybean genes important to resistance to the
soybean cyst nematode and soybean rust using microarrays
and functional genomics. A number of microarray
experiments have already been completed.
2) to design and test new strategies to broaden resistance of
soybean to SCN and soybean rust.
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Contact Information:
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| Dr. Benjamin Matthews |
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USDA-ARS Soybean Genomics and
Improvement Laboratory,
Bldg 006, Room 118
Beltsville, MD 20705. |
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| Telephone: 301-504-5730 |
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| Fax number: 301-504-5728 |
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| E-mail: matthewb@ba.ars.usda.gov |
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Created by Nadim
Alkharouf
Webmaster: alkharon@ba.ars.usda.gov
Last Updated: 08/16/05
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