Research

Explore plant adaptation to climate and other stressors by using emerging tools to address interactions between genotype, environment, and management.

Advance expertise in root biology and interactions with symbionts to create resilient crops and improve management of agriculture and landscape systems.

Explore agriculture and landscape systems that can recover from perturbations and improve the ecosystem and human conditions, while increasing yields and ecosystem services.

Advance innovation through integrating models, sensing technologies, and artificial intelligence to assimilate spatial and temporal data, as well as transcriptomics, metabolomics, and genomics to improve agronomic, horticultural, and landscape systems.

Study plant nutritional quality and beneficial secondary metabolites through plant biology, genetics, and crop management, including postharvest physiology.

Research in crop ecology and management emphasizing management practices and technologies that optimize the profitability and sustainability of cropping systems and include variety selection, weed management, tillage, crop rotation and selection, and management of plant nutrients.

Research in biology, genetics, crop management, sustainability, and more on cacao, orchard systems, vegetables, sustainable intensification, and wine grapes.

Cross-disciplinary research on topics related to root biology and genetics and molecular biology.

Research on pest management, soil science and management, nutrition and fertility, breeding and genetics, and more as it relates to turfgrass science and ornamental horticulture.