Graduate faculty
Deborah Allan Department of Soil, Water and Climate
Root dynamics and rhizosphere chemistry, plant adaptations to nutrient stress
Neil Anderson Department of Horticulture Science
Flower breeding/genetics, reproductive biology, invasive species research
David Biesboer Department of Plant Biology
Ecophysiology and anatomy of angiosperms
Paul Boswell Department Horticultural Science
Chemistry, biochemistry, and software/hardware engineering
James M. Bradeen Department of Plant Pathology
Potato pathology and genomics
Robert Brambl Department of Plant Biology
Molecular and cellular biology
Clay Carter Department of Biology (UMN-Duluth)
Jeannine Cavender-Bares Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior
Physiological ecology of plants; Phylogenetic structure of communities, particularly within oak forests; Plant-mycorrhizal interactions; Impacts of glocal change on plants
Jerry Cohen Department of Horticultural Science
Plant hormone
Ford Denison Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior
Evolution of legume-rhizobium mutualism; nodule physiology; crop ecology
Julie Etterson Department of Biology (UMN-Duluth)
Ecological genetics of native plants
Stephen Gantt Department of Plant Biology
Plant molecular biology, legume functional genomics
Gary Gardner Department of Horticultural Science
Plant growth and development; photomorphogenesis; and plants and human health
David Garvin Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics
Molecular genetic and genomic dissection of wheat disease resistance, and the analysis of genetic factors in wheat that increase disease susceptibility
Sue Gibson Department of Plant Biology
Using genomics and genetics to characterize the effects of sugar levels on plant metabolism and development
Jane Glazebrook Department of Plant Biology
Genomics of plant defense responses
Florence Gleason Department of Plant Biology
Physiology of cell division and carbon metabolism in cyanobacteria. Natural products in aquatic plants
William Gray Department of Plant Biology
Molecular basis of auxin-regulated growth and development; ubiquitin-mediated proteolysis
Adrian Hegeman Department of Horticultural Science
Systems biology and biotechnology
Fumiaki Katagiri Department of Plant Biology
Systems biology of disease resistance mechanisms
Paul (Pete) Lefebvre Department of Plant Biology
Genetics of the Chlamydomonas flagellar apparatus; the Chlamydomonas genome project
Igor Libourel Department of Plant Biology
Systems analysis of metabolism, metabolic adaptation and environmental relationships
Albert (Bud) Markhart Department of Horticultural Science
Physiology of plant response to environmental stress
M. David Marks Department of Plant Biology
Molecular genetic control of cell fate in plants
Georgiana May Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior; Department of Plant Biology
Evolution of fungal populations, molecular evolution of plant resistance and plant-pathogen interactions
David McLaughlin Department of Plant Biology
Evolution and systematics of higher fungi; mycorrhizal community structure
David Moeller Department of Plant Biology
Evolutionary biology, adaptation in natural plant populations, species' geographic range limits, speciation, and mating system evolution
Peter Morrell Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics
Computational Biology
Gary Muehlbauer Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics
Barley and wheat molecular genetics
Min Ni Department of Plant Biology
Light signal transduction and photomorphogenesis
Neil Olszewski Department of Plant Biology
Molecular mechanisms of hormone action; molecular genetics of DNA viruses
Jennifer Powers Departments of Ecology, Evolution & Behavior; Plant Biology; and Soil, Water and Climate
Terrestrial biogeochemistry, ecosystem processes, microbial ecology, tropical ecology and landscape ecology
Peter Reich Department of Forest Resources
Plant physiological ecology, forest ecology, and global change biology
Michael Sadowsky Department of Soil, Water and Climate
Molecular genetics of plant-microbe symbioses
Deborah Samac Department of Plant Pathology
Molecular strategies for disease resistance and novel crop uses in alfalfa; functional genomics of Medicago truncatula
Ruth Shaw Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior
Evolutionary genetics of plant populations
Carolyn Silflow Department of Plant Biology
Molecular genetic analysis of plant genes.
Alan Smith Department of Horticultural Science
Molecular genetics and manipulation of plant reproduction.
Nathan Springer Department of Plant Biology
Molecular basis of epigenetic phenomena
Robert Stupar Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics
Defining the transcriptional variation present in soybean at both the intragenomic and intraspecific levels
Peter Tiffin Department of Plant Biology
Evolutionary and ecological genetics; molecular and phenotypic evolution of plant defenses
Cindy Tong Department of Horticultural Science
Anthocyanin biosynthesis, fruit ripening and softening
Michael Travisano Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior
Understanding how life forms have come to exist, what causes biological diversity and complexity, starting with very simple biological systems
Carroll Vance Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics
Biochemistry and molecular biology of N2 fixation, N metabolism, and P stress
Daniel Voytas Department of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development
Plant genome engineering through homologous recombination; Retrotransposable elements and genome organization
John Ward Department of Plant Biology
Membrane proteins and transport physiology
George Weiblen Department of Plant Biology
Plant systematics, molecular phylogenetics, coevolution, plant/insect interactions
Susan Wick Department of Plant Biology
Plant cell, molecular and developmental biology.
Nevin Young Department of Plant Pathology and Department of Plant Biology
Genomic analysis of plant-pathogen interactions and genome organization
