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Ecology Evolution & Organismal Biol
Samantha Snodgrass studies the genetic models of hybrid vigor and genome evolution across the genus Zea under Dr. Matthew Hufford. By understanding how evolutionary and population dynamics have affected the genome structure of maize and its wild relatives, and then relate those processes to phenotype, this research will provide important foundational information to plant domestication which can be used to improve existing crops or accelerate domestication of wild plants or orphan crops.