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Quentin C.B. Cronk
Academic History
- University of British Columbia Professor of Plant Science and former Director, UBC Botanical Garden and Centre for Plant Research
- Reader in Vascular Plant Systematics at Edinburgh University and RBGE 1999-2002
- Faculty member, Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology (ICMB) Edinburgh University and the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, 1995-2002
- Curator of the Oxford University Herbaria, 1994-95
- Departmental Lecturer in Botany, University of Oxford, 1992-95
- Fellow and Tutor for Admissions, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, 1989-92
- Lecturer in Botany, Trinity College, Dublin, 1988-89
- Research Fellow, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, 1985-88
- PhD Department of Botany, University of Cambridge, 1985
Quentin Cronk's Recent Papers (as indexed by PubMed)
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Chloroplast microsatellite primers for cacao (Theobroma cacao) and other Malvaceae.
Am J Bot. 2011 Nov 23;
Authors: Yang JY, Motilal LA, Dempewolf H, Maharaj K, Cronk QC
Abstract
? Premise of the study: Chloroplast microsatellites were developed in Theobroma cacao to examine the genetic diversity of cacao cultivars in Trinidad and Tobago.? Methods and Results: Nine polymorphic microsatellites were designed from the chloroplast genomes of two T. cacao accessions. These microsatellites were tested in 95 hybrid accessions from Trinidad and Tobago. An average of 2.9 alleles per locus was found.? Conclusions: These chloroplast microsatellites, particularly the highly polymorphic pentameric repeat, were useful in assessing genetic variation in T. cacao. In addition, these markers should also prove to be useful for population genetic studies in other species of Malvaceae.
PMID: 22114220 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Link to abstract on PubMed: Chloroplast microsatellite primers for cacao (Theobroma cacao) and other Malvaceae.
Books
- Quentin Cronk, Richard Bateman and Julie A Hawkins (Eds)(2002)
Developmental Genetics and Plant Evolution
564 pages, 100 b\w illus., 19 tabs. Taylor and Francis, UK; Garland, USA. - Quentin Cronk (2000)
The Endemic Flora of St Helena.
119 pages, 25 col. plates, b/w photos. Anthony Nelson, UK. - Quentin CB Cronk and Janice L Fuller (2001)
Plant Invaders: The Threat to Natural Ecosystems.
241 pages, b/w photos, illus., tabs, maps. Earthscan, UK. (2nd edition, 1st edition 1995).
