Interdepartmental Plant Biology Program

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Faculty

    • Professor
    • Horticulture
    rarora@iastate.edu
    Dr. Rajeev Arora's research is focused on plant hardiness, with crop hardiness in winter being his main focus.
    • Distinguished Professor
    • Walter E. and Helen Parke Loomis Professor of Plant Physiology
    • Genetics Development and Cell Biology
    bassham@iastate.edu
    Dr. Diane Bassham's research interests focus on understanding the function and regulation of autophagy in plant stress responses.
    • Professor
    • Plant Pathology
    tbaum@iastate.edu
    Dr. Thomas Baum's research focuses on the compatible interaction between cyst nematodes and their hosts. Dr. Baum's is particularly interested in characterizing the changes in soybean and nematode gene expression during the different phases of parasitism.
    • Professor
    • Agronomy
    mbhattac@iastate.edu
    Dr. Madan Bhattacharyya teaches the Plant Genetics course (Agron 527) for graduate students. His main focus of research is soybean sudden death syndrome, though he is also interested in other plant-pathogen interactions.
    • Professor
    • Horticulture
    nchris@iastate.edu
    Dr. Nick Christians' area of research interest is in the development of naturally-occurring herbicides for the turf industry. He also conducts research on reducing the pesticide and fertilizer input for the management of quality turf in the golf, lawn-care, and sports-turf industries.
    • Professor
    • Horticulture
    sfei@iastate.edu
    Dr. Shui-zhang Fei's research is mainly focused on crop hardiness, such as stress responses of crops and the impact of cold weather on crops.
    • Professor
    • Ecology Evolution and Organismal Biology
    mhufford@iastate.edu
    Dr. Matthew Hufford's research involves the adaptation of crops to various climates. Dr. Hufford is interested in examining adaptations of domesticated crops as compared to their wild relatives.
    • Assistant Professor
    • Genetics Development & Cell Biology
    dkelley@iastate.edu
    Our lab studies auxin regulated plant growth and development in maize and Arabidopsis using genetic and genomic approaches.
    • Professor
    • Biochemistry Biophysics & Molec Biology
    rjpeters@iastate.edu
    Biosynthesis and physiological functions of plant natural products, particularly labdane-related diterpenoids, including gibberellin phytohormones
    • C.F. Curtiss Distinguished Professor
    • Iowa Corn Endowed Chair in Genetics
    • Director, Plant Sciences Institute
    • Director, Center for Plant Genetics
    • Baker Scholar of Agricultural Entrepreneurship
    • Agronomy
    schnable@iastate.edu
    Genetics, Phenomics, Bioinformics
    • Professor
    • Agronomy
    singhak@iastate.edu
    I am a professor of Agronomy [Plant Breeding] with particular interests in soybean and millets improvement. My professional interest is to help improve agricultural production through research and crop breeding activities for the benefit of farmers and agriculture industry. I am interested in cyber-agricultural systems and their deployment in breeding and crop production.
    • Professor
    • Agronomy
    kanwang@iastate.edu
    Explore and develop novel technologies for plant genetic transformation and genome editing; study under-investigated plant species for basic and applied purposes; investigate the functional roles of Agrobacterium non-coding RNAs.
    • Associate Professor
    • Chair and Director of Graduate Education, Interdepartmental Plant Biology Graduate Program
    • Genetics Development and Cell Biology
    myn@iastate.edu
    Plant Genetics, Molecular Biology
    • Professor
    • Department Chair
    • Genetics Development & Cell Biology
    yin@iastate.edu
    We use genetics, genomics, computational modeling, phenomics as well as molecular and biochemical approaches to study the regulation of plant growth and drought stress responses by steroid hormone Brassinosteroids (BRs).
    • Professor and Pioneer Distinguished Chair in Maize Breeding
    • Director of Raymond F. Baker Center for Plant Breeding
    • Agronomy
    jmyu@iastate.edu
    The focus of Yu’s program is to address significant questions in quantitative genetics by combining cutting-edge genomic technologies and plant breeding.
    • Professor
    • Biochemistry Biophysics & Molec Biology
    zabotina@iastate.edu
    Mechanisms of cell wall polysaccharide biosynthesis and functional organization of glycosyltransferase complexes in Golgi. Polysaccharide compositional dynamics and cell wall-mediated stress responses.

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