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News Release Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station Division of Agriculture, University of Arkansas System June 24, 2009 Ken Korth, Department of Plant Pathology, U of A, 479-575-2598, [email protected]. CONTACT: Mountain Home student receives national fellowship FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. -- Faye Holifield, a junior at the University of Arkansas from Mountain Home, received one of 15 fellowships awarded nationally for 2009 by the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB). Holifield is majoring in environmental, soil and water science in the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences. She is the daughter of Lynn and Wanda Holifield of Mountain Home. The ASPB Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) provides a stipend for Holifield to work on a research project with faculty mentor Ken Korth, professor of plant pathology. Her project, “The role of glyoxalase I in abiotic stress tolerance of soybean,” is to determine the role of a specific gene, and the enzyme that it encodes, in helping soybeans tolerate high levels of salt in the soil. SURF fellowships assist promising undergraduate students with meaningful research in plant biology early in their college careers, an ASPB news release says. The 15 awardees will complete 10 consecutive weeks of research and present their results at the national Plant Biology Conference, July 31 to Aug. 4, 2010, in Montreal, Canada. Holifield said, “I am more than excited about being able to do this summer research project. This is an excellent opportunity for me to get my hands ‘dirty’ in plant biology lab work. I am also looking forward to seeing the research completed by my peers in Montreal next summer. I would like to give a big thanks to Dr. Korth, Dr. Duane Wolf, and Dr. David Miller for their encouragement and support.” News releases and photos are available online at http://arkansasagnews.uark.edu/392.htm Holifield Faye.jpg (color): Faye Holifield grinds soybean leaves with a mortar and pestle as the first step in isolating RNA from the leaf material to measure levels of gene expression. She is working in Professor Ken Korth’s plant pathology laboratory at the University of Arkansas.
