Plants cannot escape adverse growing conditions, so must adjust to cold, heat, drought, flood and other adverse conditions to survive
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Rebecca Abney
Assistant Professor
Warnell
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Rebecca.Abney@uga.edu
biogeochemical cycles, post-wildfire erosion, soil C sequestration -
Doug P. Aubrey
Assistant Professor, Plant Biology
Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, Savannah River Ecology Laboratory
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daubrey@uga.edu
Tree ecophysiology, forest biogeochemistry, fire ecology, sustainability of bioenergy production -
Sudeep Bag
Assistant Professor
Plant Pathology
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sudeepbag@uga.edu
plant virology: detection, disease epidemiology, genomics, small RNA, virus-host interaction, and virus disease management -
Marin Brewer
Associate Professor
Plant Pathology
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mtbrewer@uga.edu
plant-pathogenic fungi, population genomics, mating systems, host specialization -
Anny Chung
Haines Assistant Professor
Plant Biology, Plant Pathology
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yyachung@uga.edu
plant-microbe interactions, competition and coexistence, population and community ecology, global change -
Christopher Dundas
Assistant Professor
Plant Biology, Institute of Bioinformatics
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cmdundas@stanford.edu
plant & microbial synthetic biology, microbiome engineering, biological carbon sequestration -
Rhuanito Ferrarezi
Associate Professor
Horticulture
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ferrarezi@uga.edu
irrigation, mineral nutrition, sap analysis, hydroponics, cropping systems -
Dan Johnson
Assistant Professor
Plant Biology, Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources
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danjohnson@uga.edu
tree ecophysiology, water use, drought -
Brian Kvitko
Associate Professor
Plant Biology, Plant Pathology
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bkvitko@uga.edu
mechanisms of plant immune action against bacteria, molecular phytobacteriology -
Soraya Leal-Bertioli
Senior Research Scientist
Plant Pathology; Institute of Plant Breeding, Genetics and Genomics
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sorayab@uga.edu
peanut, wild arachis, introgression, tetraploidization, disease resistance -
Zenglu Li
Professor
Georgia Seed Development Professorship in Soybean Breeding and Genetics
Institute of Plant Breeding, Genetics and Genomics
Website
zli@uga.edu
soybean breeding, genetics and genomics -
Cecilia McGregor
Associate Professor
Institute of Plant Breeding, Genetics and Genomics
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cmcgre1@uga.edu
vegetables, breeding, genetics, genomics, marker-assisted selection, QTL -
Melissa Mitchum
Professor
Institute of Plant Breeding, Genetics and Genomics; Plant Pathology
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melissa.mitchum@uga.edu
molecular plant-nematode interactions, effectors, peptide signaling, host plant resistance, soybean genetics and genomics -
Wayne Parrott
Distinguished Research Professor
Institute of Plant Breeding, Genetics and Genomics
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wparrott@uga.edu
gene editing and transgenic breeding of legumes and grasses -
Shavannor Smith
Associate Professor
Plant Pathology
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shavs@uga.edu
plant-pathogen interactions, structure and evolution of disease resistance loci -
CJ Tsai
Winfred N. Haynes Professor and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar
Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources; Plant Biology; Genetics; Institute of Bioinformatics
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cjtsai@uga.edu
phenylpropanoid metabolism, stress response, wood formation, gene family evolution, gene-metabolite networks -
Breeanna Urbanowicz
Assistant Professor
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Complex Carbohydrate Research Center
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breeanna@uga.edu
structure and function of plant carbohydrate active enzymes -
Caterina Villari
Assistant Professor
Plant Biology, Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources
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cvillari@uga.edu
fungal pathogens, resistance mechanisms of trees, chemical ecology, insect-fungi symbioses -
Jason Wallace
Associate Professor
Institute of Bioinformatics, Institute of Plant Breeding, Genetics and Genomics
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jason.wallace@uga.edu
quantitative genetics and genomics of crops and their microbiomes -
Ian Wallace
Associate Professor
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
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ian.wallace@uga.edu
biosynthesis and regulation of plant cell wall polysaccharides -
Tanisha Williams
Assistant Professor, UGA Herbarium Director
Plant Biology
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Tanisha.Williams1@uga.edu
conservation biology, climate change responses, plant diversity, ethnobotany, genetics/genomics, ecology, phenology, herbaria -
Li Yang
Assistant Professor
Plant Pathology
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Li.Yang1@uga.edu
molecular genetics of plant immunity and development