Our team is focused on improving crop productivity and nutritional quality simultaneously, including under conditions of drought and/or high temperatures. We do so by measuring plant characteristics in the field and lab, identifying genes related to these characteristics, using DNA sequence information to predict breeding values, and integrating models of plant growth and development.
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https://diepenbrocklab.ucdavis.edu/
Christine Diepenbrock, Assistant Professor, University of California, Davis