Research
Graduate Research
Settles Lab
Aims
Cold Tolerance
- Identify alleles associated with cold tolerance in sweet corn using GWAS.
Sugars & Starch
- Improve plant vigor with a Shrunken2 transgene expressed late in seed development.
- Develop novel mutants in the starch biosynthesis pathway in sweet corn
Physiology
- Draw relationships between pericarp thickness in fresh and mature kernels.
Undergraduate Research
- DiGennaro Lab
- Caughlin Lab
- Vulpe Lab