Collaborating on agricultural climate solutions, from plants to animals

Photo: Dr Doris Wagner

When Doris Wagner looks at her fellow faculty members in the Department of Biology, she sees a strong group of faculty working on plant biology, complementing her own work coming up with an epigenome approach to increasing drought resistance in crops. Brent Helliker and Brian D. Gregory are researching what makes sorghum more drought-resistant than corn, Corlett Wood is working on plants that acquire nitrogen from bacteria, and Scott Poethig is studying changes between young and adult leaves. And there’s Aman Husbands looking at robustness in leaf development and Kimberly Gallagher examining how different parts of the plant communicate with each other to coordinate responses to environmental signals.

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