@article{1f3e884c692741b4b0fc2d4d366b6a47,
title = "Mark E. Sorrells: Plant Breeder, Geneticist, Innovator, Mentor",
keywords = "association breeding, barley, gene cloning, gene mapping, genomic selection, oat, pre‐harvest sprouting, rust, saccharum, seed dormancy, tef, wheat",
author = "Alvina Gul and Diepenbrock, {Christine H.} and Flavio Breseghello and Euclydes Minella and Munkvold, {Jesse D.} and Paterson, {Andrew H.} and Kucek, {Lisa Kissing} and Edward Souza and Rota, {Mauricio La} and Yu, {Long Xi} and Yu, {Ju Kyung} and Zhengqiang Ma and {Van Deynze}, Allen and Jessica Rutkoski and Heffner, {Elliot L.} and Silva, {Jorge da} and Sanchez, {Julio Isidro}",
note = "Funding Information: of the invited outstanding scientists for research and education innovation at Nanjing Agricultural University{\textquoteright}s “111 Project,” supported by the Education Ministry of China. During his various visits to Nanjing Agricultural University, he would discuss research projects with the graduate students and give valuable suggestions and advice. Funding Information: 3. Big Data Management. Dr. Sorrells realized early the importance of big data to plant breeding, and was one of the founders of the GrainGenes database, established in 1992. GrainGenes is a comprehensive database resource for molecular and phenotypic information on wheat, barley, rye, oat, and other related species. It was established and curated for two decades by Dave Matthews, with USDA‐ARS funding. It began as a repository for information on germplasm stocks, pedigrees, genes, and molecular markers. Today, it includes data on QTL, SNPs, SSRs, and genetic and comparative maps, as well as genome browsers and links to other key genomic resources such as Gramene. Sorrells is also one of ten PIs on the Genomic open‐source Breeding Informatics Initiative (GoBII), funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. GoBII has the goal of developing open‐source computational infrastructure and analysis capabilities for breeding programs for staple crops in the developing world. With the advent of genomics and high‐throughput phenotyping datasets, the importance of such curated databases cannot be overstated.",
year = "2019",
doi = "10.1002/9781119521358.ch1",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "42",
pages = "1--38",
journal = "Plant Breeding Reviews",
issn = "0730-2207",
publisher = "John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.",
}