Bioenergy Grasses

The Allen lab is interested in enhancing photosynthetic performance in crops through quantitative descriptions of carbon and nitrogen metabolism.


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The Bart lab is exploring the microbiome of energy sorghum in search of microbial consortia capable of promoting fitness in water and nitrogen limited environments.

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The Baxter lab studies how plants adapt to their environment to identify genes that will allow for growth on more marginal soils with fewer inputs.



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The Brutnell lab focuses on improving photosynthesis in bioenergy grasses such as sorghum and developing genomics tools for the model system Setaria viridis.

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The Chitwood Lab uses multivariate statistics to interpret the plant
phenotype and assists in
studying bioenergy grasses.




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The Eveland lab studies gene networks controlling growth and development of bioenergy grasses and how they respond to changing environments.

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The Kellogg lab studies the grasses of the North American prairies and African savannas, focusing on plant architecture, photosynthesis, and seed production.

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The Mockler lab focuses on developing genomic resources for bioenergy crops and predicting plant performance from genomic datasets.

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The Topp lab focuses on the deposition of energy into subterranean plant structures as well as into the rhizosphere to foster nutrient uptake and plant-microbe interactions.

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