Together they found that the Montmorency tart cherry genome was more intricate than they originally thought. Hollender and Goeckeritz teamed up with professor emeritus Amy Iezzoni, the nation’s only tart cherry breeder Kathleen Rhoades, Iezzoni’s doctoral student Bob VanBuren, an assistant professor in the Department of Horticulture and MSU’s Plant Resilience Institute Kevin Childs, director of the MSU Genomics Core and Patrick Edger, an associate professor in MSU’s Department of Horticulture. “I was complaining about it to everyone and, finally, one of my friends suggested we just sequence the tart cherry genome.” Thanks to funds from MSU’s AgBioResearch Project GREEEN, or Generating Research and Extension to meet Economic and Environmental Needs, they were able to do just that.Ĭharity Goeckeritz and Courtney Hollender. “I was trying to align the tart cherry DNA sequences with the peach genome and they just weren’t aligning very well,” said Goeckeritz. For Hollender’s doctoral candidate, Charity Goeckeritz, an exercise in frustration piqued her curiosity. Sequencing it provides a map for researchers when they are trying to, for example, grow a cherry tree that will bloom later in the season. Genomes contain all the genes and genetic instructions for an organism’s development. “I naively thought that this would be an easy endeavor we would simply sequence a few early and late-blooming cherry trees and align the sequences to the peach genome and get an answer in just a few weeks,” said Courtney Hollender, an assistant professor in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources at MSU.
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