Crop and Ecosystem Sciences

Foraging behavior, range management, spatial heterogenicity, and geostatistical applications. Agricultural ecologist.

biofuels, bio-energy, sugar and oil crops, salinity management, sustainable agriculture

vascular plant structure, development and evolution; crop plant anatomy and morphology; development and evolution of shoot apical meristem organization; shoot branching, especially dichotomous branching

cotton production and quality issues, plant water stress, microirrigation

Herbicide-based weed management in perennial crops, herbicide-resistant weeds, IR-4 pesticide program, and soil fumigation

Genetics and breeding of Prunus species

Mechanisms of photosynthetic and stomatal variation; water use efficiency

Biodiversity and genetic resources conservation; crop domestication and evolution; structural genomics and molecular evolution; bean and chickpea breeding

Agroecology; cropping system diversity and resilience; ecological intensification; soil health; root ecophysiology

Pistachios, olives, figs, citrus, persimmons, pomegranates