Molecular Genetics

  • NameResearch Abstract

    Xin Li

    Utilizing a combination of molecular genetics, biochemical and genomics approaches to understand plant immunity and biological processes of the soilborne fungal pathogen Sclerotinia sclerotiorum

    Loren Rieseberg

    Adaptation, Domestication, Crop Evolution, Hybridization, Speciation, Weed Evolution

    Lacey Samuels

    Plant cell biology, cellular basis of secretion of plant cell wall components; lignification in xylem development; ABC transporters and cuticle secretion

    Liang Song

    plant genomics, environmental stresses, seed development, gene expression

    Geoffrey Wasteneys

    Plant Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics; organization of the cytoskeleton and its role in cell wall formation, intracellular motility and growth anisotropy in the higher plant Arabidopsis thaliana and the characean algae; plant responses to abiotic and endogenous signals.