2024 George Rédei Seed Stock Award
Dr. Diana Wolf, University of Alaska, Fairbanks
Contributed 92 North American Arabidopsis kamchatica ssp kamchatica accessions to the ABRC.
The 2024 Awardee is Dr. Diana Wolf of the University of Alaska, Fairbanks for her contribution of 92 North American Arabidopsis kamchatica ssp kamchatica accessions to the ABRC. We thank Dr. Wolf, on behalf of the community, for her generous contribution to the ABRC repository.
The North American Arabidopsis Steering Committee (NAASC) and the Arabidopsis Biological Resource Center (ABRC) established the George Rédei Seed Stock Award in 2023 to recognize the Arabidopsis scientist that has donated the most seed stocks to ABRC the previous year. The Award is named after Dr. George Rédei, a founder of Arabidopsis as the reference flowering plant.
Go to the NAASC Rédei webpage to learn more about George Rédei and his key roles in establishing Arabidopsis thaliana as a primary molecular plant biology model organism.
Diana Wolf:
I am honored to receive the George Rédei Seed Stock Award for my contribution of 92 North American Arabidopsis kamchatica ssp kamchatica accessions to the ABRC. A. kamchatica is a perennial allotetraploid produced through hybridization between A. lyrata and A. halleri ssp gemmifera. The hybridization events are likely to have recently occurred in eastern Asia and/or eastern Russia, followed by its spread across Beringia into Alaska and western Canada. In North America, it primarily lives in disturbed areas along rivers, streams, glacial moraines and roadsides. It is highly cold tolerant. The collections that I donated cover the complete latitudinal range within North America from Fairbanks, AK USA, to Vancouver Island, BC Canada. Wild Arabidopsis species are valuable for the study of genome evolution, traits, and adaptation. The fact that A. kamchatica is self-compatible makes it especially useful in that it is possible to maintain and distribute seed stocks. I am glad to know that these collections are in good hands, and I hope that they can be of use to the scientific community.
