Research
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Molecular Plant Sciences Faculty
 John
Browse
Lipid and membrane
biochemistry; pathways and regulation of lipid synthesis and membrane
formation in higher plants; chilling and freezing tolerance in plants.
Asaph Cousins
Plant metabolism and physiology; plant energy metabolism; carbon and oxygen isotope exchange in plants.
Rod
Croteau
Terpenoid natural products chemistry;
pathways and enzymes of terpenoid biosynthesis and catabolism in
plants.
Amit
Dhingra
Horticultural genomics, plastid transformation,
organelle genomics, photobiology and photosynthesis.
Gerald
Edwards
Photosynthesis, including effects of
environmental stress and potential global climate change; mechanism
and evolution of carbon assimilation
John
K. Fellman
Phytochemistry, chemistry and biochemistry
of fruits and their products; postharvest plant physiology.
Kulvinder
S. Gill
Molecular basis of chromosome pairing
control; genome organization and amplification; distribution of genes
and recombination; characterization of agronomically important traits.
Howard
D. Grimes
Biochemistry, molecular biology, and
genetic engineering of sucrose transport and selective proteolysis
in plant cells.
Lee
Hadwiger
Molecular biology of plant disease resistance;
plant gene regulation by elicitors from fungi and bacteria.
Hanjo
Hellmann
The ubiquitin proteasome pathway; vitamin
B6 biosynthesis.
Scot Hulbert
Molecular genetics and evolution of the interactions between pathogens and plants.
Michael
Kahn
Nitrogen fixation; interactions between
plant and bacterial metabolism to support symbiotic nitrogen fixation.
Ananth
Kalyanaraman
Computational biology and bioinformatics;
high-performance computing; combinatorial pattern matching.
ChulHee
Kang
Protein and DNA X-ray crystallography.
Andris Kleinhofs
Molecular genetics of plant disease resistance genes; gene isolation, characterization and interaction with other proteins and with pathogens; signaling pathways leading to disease resistance.
Michael
Knoblauch
Cell biology and the physiology of plant
tissues, especially the phloem.
N.
Richard Knowles
Physiological and biochemical changes
associated with aging; development of oxidative stress and associated
effects on intermediary metabolism; mechanisms of membrane deterioration
and protein catabolism during aging.
David
Kramer
Energetics and control of photosynthesis;
electron transfer reactions; coupling of electron transfer reactions
to proton pumping and to ATP synthesis; evolution of bioenergetics;
photosynthesis in extreme environments.
Mark
Lange
Use and development of tools for the
integration of post-genomic technologies (microarrays, proteomics,
metabolite profiling) to study the global regulation of metabolic
pathways; particular interest in isoprenoid metabolism.
Norman
Lewis
Biochemistry of plant phenolics; biochemistry
of plant cell-wall synthesis and unique plant constituents; effects
of gravity on metabolic pathways in plants.
Dorrie
Main
Bioinformatics; plant genome databases;
comparative genomics of rosaceous crops.
Andrew
G. McCubbin
Pollen-pistil interactions; floral growth
and development.
Roy Navarre
The molecular basis of disease resistance mechanisms and inducible defenses, such as systemic acquired resistance, in potato.
Michael
Neff
Interactions between various signaling
pathways that modulate plant development.
Tom
Okita
Biochemistry of starch synthesis and
protein localization; metabolic genetic engineering of plants for
increased productivity; mRNA localization and the role of the cytoskeleton
and endoplasmic reticulum.
Patricia
Okubara
Host molecular responses to beneficial and pathogenic soil microbes; molecular diagnoses of and host resistance to soilborne pathogens.
Hanu R. Pappu
Virus genomics and proteomics, plant-virus interactions, molecular epidemiology, crop biotechnology/virus resistant transgenic plants.
B.
W. Poovaiah
Molecular and biochemical aspects of
calcium/calmodulin-mediated signaling in plants.
Kerry Ringer
Impacts of winemaking techniques and viticulture techniques on the volatile compounds and volatile precursors found in grapes and wine, particularly the fruity and floral terpenes.
Sanja
Roje
Metabolism of tetrahydrofolate-bound
one-carbon units in plastids; biosynthesis of riboflavin in plants.
Camille
Steber
Hormonal regulation of seed dormancy
and germination.
Mechthild
Tegeder
Molecular and physiological mechanisms
of nitrogen transport; regulation of transport; flower/seed development;
plant productivity.
Linda
S. Thomashow
Genetics, biochemistry and physiology
of plant-microbe interactions; plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria;
rhizosphere microbiology and ecology; mechanisms of gene regulation
and expression; microbial genomics.
Diter
von Wettstein
Molecular biology of cereals;
breeding by mutation and functional genomics.
John
J. Wyrick
Functional genomics; regulation
of gene expression; chromatin structure; covalent histone
modifications.
Bud
Ryan
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