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Quantitative Genetics Resources Bruce Walsh’s site at University of Arizona, with extensive links to software, Walsh and Lynch’s upcoming book, and Wyman Nyquist’s quantitative genetics course notes, among other goodies. |
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Related Links |
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Plant Genetics and Breeding |
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The Maize Genetics Database. Home of maps, markers, mapping data, phenotype data, and more. Includes a PDF of Burnham’s classic cytogenetics text. |
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The official website for the NSF-funded “Molecular and Functional Diversity of Maize Project”. |
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National Plant Germplasm System Home of the nation’s plant genetic resources. Searchable catalog of seed stocks, with pedigree information, characterization data, and order form to request seed. |
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The International Center for Maize and Wheat Improvement, Mexico. The leading international center for improving maize for the developing world. |
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North Carolina Official Variety Trials Cultivar performance trials for corn and other crops in North Carolina. |
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Contact information: |
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Phone: 919-513-4198 Fax: 919-515-7959 E-mail: james_holland@ncsu.edu |
USDA-ARS Maize Breeding and Genetics at NCSU Presents: |
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Colleagues |
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Major is the world authority on maize genetic diversity. Everything we know we learned from Major. |
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Peter is a USDA Research Geneticist working on quantitative disease resistance in maize in the Department of Plant Pathology, NCSU.
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Gary is a world authority on Aspergillus and other fungal pathogens of maize. |
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Ed is the leader of the pack on association mapping and diversity-based maize functional genomics. His site has some nice bioinformatics and statistical tools. |
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Internet Radio Sites (not really related, but…) |
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Excellent source for new music. Freeform but concentrating on indie rock stuff. |
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KCRW, Santa Monica, California Another excellent West Coast site. NPR station that plays cool music in the morning. |
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WXYC, Chapel Hill, North Carolina Those kids up in Chapel Hill got it goin on. Tidbit—this is THE first station to broadcast on the internet. |
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Dukie kids got it goin on. |
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Charles is a forage breeder and trouble maker at University of Georgia. Formerly at Iowa State, 2 doors down from my old office. Excellent links to all kinds of stuff at his site. |
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Mike is a maize geneticist at Iowa State. We used to work on oat genetics together, back in the day. |
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NCSU’s campus radio station. Used to be terrible, back in the day (the early ‘90s, I mean), but decent now. Incredible live turntabling shows very very late on Thursday nights/Friday mornings. |
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Shaw University’s jazz station. Ranges from OK in the AM (with some trips down Horrid Smooth Jazz Lane) to outstanding later in the day. John Bouille’s shows are uniformly excellent; Trevor Holland is no relation to me, but also has a good show. Occasionally, one of the late evening DJs will let loose some crazed free jazz, hoo-ray! |
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The granddaddy of freeform radio in the USA. Sometimes too crazy even for me (which, folks, is saying A LOT). |
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This is what I listen to when pollinating corn in our winter nursery in Homestead, FL. A fantastic station. Frank Consola’s AM show is great, and the Latin Jazz Quarter at lunchtime is sweet. Also check out the wild ethnic programming on the weekend. French hip hop? Indian music from the West Indies with tablas and steel drums? Huh? |
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Literature and Film (also not really related, but…) |
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It took them long enough, but finally they have a site up with some free reading. |
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Not to be confused with the NY Times Book Review. More in-depth articles, even occasionally about genetics (thanks Dr. Lewontin!). Lots of free content. |
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Excellent poetry page. Used to be lots of free content, but maybe the good times are over? |
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Many classics free on-line. Could one possibly sit in front a computer screen for the entirety of “The Brothers Karamazov”? I doubt it, but it’s nice to be able to reference a quote from these books easily online. |
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Andrei Tarkovsky Site: Nostalghia,com Tribute to the great Russian director. His film, Andrei Rublyev, is the best ever made, in my opinion. |
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Jonathan Rosenbaum’s weekly and often wonderfully contrarian reviews posted for free here. Great stuff. Good attention to foreign film. |
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So much great stuff. Hit the link to “Open BBC Radio Player” and go nuts. Favorites include Charlie Gillett’s World of Music, Andy Kershaw’s show, the Late Junction show, and the celtic music shows. |
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Amazing range of “serious” music, from baroque to ear-splitting post-modern. Jazz and world music get thrown in occasionally, too. Since I can’t read dutch, I haven’t a clue as to what the schedule is, I just tune in for random surprises. |
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NC Central U.’s mostly jazz station. Very, very good for classic jazz, plus funk, reggae, and world music on the weekends. |
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Our local, community-supported classical music station. Good music, but terribly restrictive to “pleasant music”. It ain’t going to kill anyone to hear music composed after 1915! A little more Bartok, Messiaen, Glass, Ives, Harrison, Golijov, et al. would make things much more interesting. |