Soybean Genetics
Bing Stacey Lab
Research Interests
Currently Bing Stacey’s work identifies which genes are responsible for which phenotypes or physical traits in soybean plants. She is studying possible genes that could control plant size and the number of seeds in each pod. Stacey uses fast neutron and CRISPR CAS9 methods to target certain genes and prove they are responsible for causing a certain physical trait. Fast neutron and CRISPR are helpful because they’re able to locate, target and edit specific genes to establish relationships between traits and their genes.
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Bing Stacey
Principal Investigator, Bond LSC
Research Assistant Professor of Plant Science and Technology
phone(573) 884-4799
email staceym@missouri.edu
Bing Stacey is a research assistant professor in the Division of Plant Science and Technology.
LAB MEMBERS
In the news
April 17, 2020
#IAmScience Bing Stacey
By Lauren Hines | Bond LSC Bing Stacey works on her soybean genetics papers in her office with the company of a plant on the windowsill and a large tropical photo of the Philippines on the second floor of Bond LSC. For the past few years, Bing Stacey has been working towards uncovering the secrets of soybean genes. That work aims to identify what different genes do within the soybean genome so that they can be manipulated and create higher crop yields. Soybeans are a major source of cooking oil and protein…
Nov. 2, 2020
Seed size matters: searching for a gene to make a bigger soybean
Bing Stacey | photo by Mariah Cox, Bond LSC By Becca Wolf | Bond LSC Patience is a virtue, at least it is for Bing Stacey. Stacey recently completed a project that took her a total of eight years. It took her five years to develop a fast neutron mutant population and it took an additional three years to screen the population to identify a mutant that showed increase soybean seed size and then identifying the causative gene. This gene, GmKIX8-1, and the seed size QTL, qSW17-1, can potentially be exploited for increasing yield in soybeans. Being able…
Dec. 6, 2017
Inside agriculture’s hottest controversy: dicamba
A soybean plant grows in the Bond Life Sciences Center’s greenhouse. | Photo by Samantha Kummerer, Bond LSC. By Samantha Kummerer, Bond Life Sciences Center Every summer, MU Bond Life scientists Gary and Bing Stacey plant soybeans. In the summer of 2016, they were testing mutant crops’ tolerance to different herbicides. Among the multiple weed killers tested was one called dicamba. The researchers knew this particular chemical was tricky so they turned to an expert to apply it, MU herbicide researcher Kevin Bradley. The next morning, a soybean breeder with a neighboring plot discovered his soybeans…