| My research program focuses on cereal crop molecular genetics and breeding, with emphasis on the small grains cereal crops, oat, wheat, and barley. The long term goal of my project is to improve our understanding of the genetic control of expression of important traits in cereals for use in plant breeding applications. We are working toward that goal by conducting research in the following areas. 1) deciphering the genetic systems underlying expression of important traits in cereals; 2) enhancement of cereal crop transformation for efficient functional genomic research, and 3) conducting cereal crop improvement using both traditional and molecular techniques. Current studies include investigation of RNAi-mediated disease resistance, characterization of tissue/organ-specific and inducible promoters, study of chromatin gene effects on polyploid gene expression and on transgene integration and expression in cereals, continued breeding efforts in oat enhancement, and further development and optimization of cereal transformation systems for use in high-throughput functional genomics studies. |
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