Wagner A. Vendrame

Title - Associate Professor

Department - Environmental Horticulture

Specialty - Ornamental Horticulture and Plant Tissue Culture

Telephone - 305-246-7001 Ext. 210

Suncom - 478-7001 x 210

Web site - http://trec.ifas.ufl.edu/vendrame

Education

Ph.D., 1998: University of Georgia, Athens, GA. - Horticulture
M.S., 1994: University of São Paulo, Piracicaba, SP, Brazil. - Plant Physiology and Biochemistry
B.S., 1987: University of São Paulo, Piracicaba, SP, Brazil - Agronomy/Agricultural Engineering

Assistant Professor (6/2000 to present), Environmental Horticulture Dept., TREC - IFAS/University of Florida
Post-Doctoral Associate (1998 to 2001), D. B. Warnell School of Forest Resources, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
Research Assistant (1994 to 1998), Dept. of Horticulture, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
Research Consultant (1994), Aracruz Cellulose, Aracruz, ES, Brazil
Visiting Researcher (1993 to 1994), School of Forest Resources, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
Research Assistant (1991 to 1993), Department of Forest Sciences, University of São Paulo, Piracicaba, SP, Brazil

Ornamental plant tissue culture - development of tissue culture techniques and protocols for clonal propagation and mass production of ornamental plants and for conservation of rare and/or endangered ornamental species.

Clonal propagation of commercial orchids (Phalaenopsis e Dendrobiums).
Development of a protocol for conservation of Florida native endangered orchid species (Calopogon sp. and Sacoila sp.).
Clonal propagation of endangered palm species (Coccothrinax borhidiana).
Clonal propagation of Delonix regia (Royal Poinciana) var. 'Yellow Kampong'.
Development and clonal propagation of new tetraploid hybrids of Alstroemeria sp.

Vendrame, W.A., Holliday, C. P. and S. A. Merkle. 2004. Clonal propagation of hybrid sweetgum (L. styraciflua X L. formosana) via somatic embryogenesis. Acta Horticulturae (ISHS) 625: 241-247.
Wilson, S. B., Thetford, M. and W. Vendrame. 2004. Restructuring a Plant Propagation Course for Distance Education. Acta Horticulturae (ISHS) 625: xxx-xxx.(in press).
Myers, Alba R. and W. Vendrame Somatic Embryogenesis in Delonix regia (Boger.) Raf (Royal Poinciana). 2004. Journal of Undergraduate Research, University of Florida.
Vendrame, W.A., C.P. Holliday, and S.A. Merkle. 2001. Clonal propagation of hybrid sweetgum (L. styraciflua x L. formosana). Plant Cell Reports, 20: 691-695.
Vendrame, W.A., C.P. Holliday, P.M. Montello, D.R. Smith. 2001. Cryopreservation of yellow-poplar and sweetgum embryogenic cultures. New Forests, 21: 283-292.
Wetzstein, H.Y., B.S. Jeyaretnam, W.A. Vendrame and A.P.M. Rodriguez. 2000. Somatic Embryogenesis in Pecan (Carya illinoinensis). In: Jain, S.M. et al. (ed.) Somatic Embryogenesis in Woody Plants, vol. 6, Kluwer Academics, Dordrecht. pp. 391-414.
Vendrame, W.A., G.D. Kochert, D. Sparks and H.Y. Wetzstein. 2000. Field Performance and Molecular Evaluations of Pecan Trees Regenerated from Somatic Embryogenic Cultures. J. Amer. Soc. Hort. Science, 125(5): 542-546.
Vendrame, W.A., G.D. Kochert and H.Y. Wetzstein. 1999. AFLP Analysis of Variation in Pecan Somatic Embryos. Plant Cell Reports, 18: 853-85

Vendrame, C.P. Holliday, D.R. Smith and S.A. Merkle. 1999. Optimization of a Cryopreservation Protocol for Embryogenic Cultures of Yellow-Poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera). Proceedings of the 25th Biennial Southern Forest Tree Improvement Conference, 47: 172-173. (Abstract)
Vendrame W.A., D. Sparks., G.D. Kochert and H.Y. Wetzstein. 1998. A Phenotypic and Molecular Evaluation of Field-grown Trees derived from Somatic Embryogenic Cultures. HortScience, 33(3): 527. (Abstract)