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Department of Horticultural Science
Blueberry Genetics & Genomics Laboratory

Danny Reiland

  • 1st Year Masters Student
  • Program: Horticultural Science
  • Education: M.S., Horticultural Science, North Carolina State University, in progress (began August 2025); B.S., Environmental Science; Brazilian & Global Portuguese, Duke University, 2016
  • About: Danny brings six years of close collaboration with the Blueberry Genetics and Genomics Laboratory, during which he contributed to foundational work on blueberry tissue culture and regeneration. He currently works full time as a Plant Pathology Research Scholar at the NC State Micropropagation and Repository Unit while pursuing his M.S. degree. His graduate research continues and extends the transformation work pioneered in the lab, with a focus on optimizing blueberry transformation systems and an emerging interest in blueberry protoplast development — a frontier area with significant potential for precision genome editing in this recalcitrant crop.
  • Publications
    • Kelso, F., Da, K., Dewey, R. E., Reiland, D., Almeyda, C., Liu, W., & Ashrafi, H. (2025). Optimization of Adventitious Shoot Regeneration Protocols for Six Vaccinium corymbosum Cultivars. HortScience, 60(7), 1109–1117.
    • Shepard, F., Liu, W., Dewey, R. E., Da, K., Reiland, D., Almeyda-Becerra, C., & Ashrafi, H. (2025). Optimizing regeneration systems for highbush blueberries. Acta Horticulturae, 1440, 369–376.
  • Contact: dsreilan@ncsu.edu