Stacy Bonos |
Plant breeding genetic improvement of turfgrass, switchgrass; disease resistance and stress tolerance |
Chee-kok Chin |
Plant breeding, genetic improvement - Asparagus |
Tiemi Curry |
Plant tissue culture to support the breeding programs |
Juan Dong |
Plant cell and development/molecular genetics: cell polarity, asymmetric cell division, stomatal development; Arabidopsis |
Andrea Gallavoti |
Maize genetics and functional genomics; plant architecture, meristem development |
Joseph Goffreda |
Plant breeding and genetic improvement of peach, apricot, nectarine and apple |
Josh Honig |
DNA fingerprinting, sequencing, genotyping, marker-assisted selection, genetic linkage mapping to support breeding programs |
Bingru Huang |
Turfgrass stress physiology/biochemistry/molecular biology |
Eric Lam |
Epigenetics, duckweed, genomics technologies, programmed cell death regulators |
Michael Lawton |
Functional genomics; mechanisms of stress tolerance |
Tom Leustek |
Metabolic control and engineering of plant metabolism, sulfur assimilation, nutrition, sensing, amino acid biosynthesis and regulation |
Pal Maliga |
Molecular biology, biotechnology, plant breeding, genetic improvement, plastid molecular biology |
William Meyer |
Plant breeding and genetic improvement, turfgrass breeding, |
Tom Molnar |
Plant breeding, genetic improvement, edible and ornamental tree crops; hazelnuts, dogwoods |
Thomas Orton |
Plant breeding, genetic improvement, vegetable crops |
James Simon |
Plant breeding, genetic improvement, new crop development, herbs, fruits and vegetables |
Nick Vorsa |
Plant breeding, genetic improvement, cranberry, blueberry, polyphenolics |