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The B Bee Lab!
Welcome to our USDA website! Here you can find information about my lab and the exciting projects we work on. On the left sidebar you can see some general lab pages, research pages and others.
Research: Our research examine risk of genetically modified genes in agriculture. We concentrate on the role of bees in moving genes and how various aspects of their foraging behaviors affect gene flow.We also examine how climate change can impact plant resources, affect pollinator foraging behaviors and resulting gene flow. We are interested in introgression of cultivar genes in wild carrot populations and the frequency of the glyphosate resistance gene in feral alfalfa populations. We study the ecology of feral alfalfa, selfing rate and gene flow in alfalfa seed production fields, and other areas.
News
Johanne is moving! Please contact her at jobrunet1@gmail.com.
Check out our new blog about bees! We will update it every few weeks, so be sure to check back soon.
Best of luck to Fabiana! After five years you had become family! We will miss you.
ASA, CSSA, SSSA International Annual Meeting 2021.
We had one virtual presentation:
- Selfing, inbreeding and yield in alfalfa seed production. Johanne Brunet and Molly Dieterich Mabin are both authors of this work and of the talk!
Best wishes to Andy in his new position!
Andrew Flick is now the Scientific Coordinator for Vanderbilt University's Evolutionary Sciences Initiative.
Entomological Society of America 2021.
We had two virtual presentations:
- Fragoso, F. and J. Brunet. Patch fidelity of honey bees and bumble bees differs and is affected by spatial configuration
- Brunet, J. Bee Foraging Behavior as Predictor of Plant Reproduction and Gene flow
Here are some selected publications
See the Publications tab below for links and more publications.
- Dieterich Mabin, M.E., Brunet, J., Riday, H., Lehmann, L.0. 2021. Self-fertilization, inbreeding and yield in alfalfa seed production. Frontiers in Plant Sciences 12.
- Fragoso, F.P., Jiang, Q., Clayton, M.K., Brunet, J. 2021. Patch selection by bumble bees navigating discontinuous landscapes. Scientific Reports. 11.
- Kesoju, S., Kramer, M.H., Brunet, J., Greene, S.L., Jordan, A., Martin, R.C. 2021. Gene flow in commercial alfalfa (Medicago sativa subsp. sativa L.) seed production fields: Distance is the primary but not the sole influence on adventitious presence. PLoS ONE. 16(3).
- Brunet, J., Flick, A., Bauer, A. 2021. Phenotypic selection on flower color and floral display size by three bee species. Frontiers in Plant Science. 11.
- Boyer, K.J., Fragoso, F.P., Dieterich Mabin M.E., and Brunet J. 2020. Netting and pan traps fail to identify the pollinator guild of an agricultural crop. Scientific reports 10:13819.
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