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.