| Stacy Bonos |
Plant breeding genetic improvement of turfgrass, switchgrass; disease resistance and stress tolerance |
| 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 Gallavotti |
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 |
| Tom Molnar |
Plant breeding, genetic improvement, edible and ornamental tree crops; hazelnuts, dogwoods |
| Gina Sideli |
Plant breeding, genetic improvement, cranberry, blueberry, polyphenolics |
| James Simon |
Plant breeding, genetic improvement, new crop development, herbs, fruits and vegetables |
| Mark Zander |
Plant (epi)genomics, plant immunity, plant hormone signaling, transcriptional regulation, plant stress responses |
