De Storme Nico
University of Ghent, Belgium
Biography
Nico De Storme obtained his Master Degree in Bioscience Engineering - Agricultural Sciences at the University of Ghent - Belgium in the year 2006. During his PhD (FWO grant) he focused on the identification of genetic and environmental factors underlying 2n gamete formation in plants. After completing his PhD at the Department of Plant Production in 2013, he received an FWO PostDoc scholarship to continue his research on the regulation of meiotic recombination and (a)sexual reproduction in plants. Nico has published more than 15 papers in high-ranking peer-reviewed A1 journals, including Plant Physiology and The Plant Cell.
Abstract
Abstract : MALE APOMIXIS - Towards the synthetic engineering of clonal seed formation in plants