Director

Rod A. Wing

Director of the Center for Desert Agriculture | Professor of Plant Science | Principal Investigator of the Wing Lab

Research Interests: genetics, genomics, evolutionary biology of crop plants and their wild relatives

Associate Director

Mark A. Tester

Associate Director of the Center for Desert Agriculture | Professor of Plant Science | Principal Investigator of the Salt Lab

Research Interests: salinity tolerance, ion transport, sustainable food production systems

Faculty

Brande Wulff

Associate Professor of Plant Science | Principal Investigator of The Wulff Lab

Research Interests: wheat, wild wheat relatives, wild wheats, wheat rust, genomics, bioinformatics, resistance genes, gene cloning, GWAS, GM crops

Heribert Hirt

Professor of Plant Science | Principal Investigator of the Darwin21 Lab

Himanshu Mishra

Associate Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering | Principal Investigator of Interfacial Lab

Research Interests: biomimetics, superhydrophobic sand mulch, biochar, food–water security, soil physics & chemistry

Iain McEwing Young

Professor | Dean of the Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering Division

Ikram Blilou

Professor of Plant Science | Principal Investigator of the Laboratory of Plant Cell and Developmental Biology (LPCDB)

Jesse A. Poland

Professor of Plant Science | Principal Investigator of the Plant Breeding and Genetics Lab

Magdy M. Mahfouz

Professor of Bioengineering, Bioscience, and Plant Science | Principal Investigator of the Laboratory for Genome Engineering and Synthetic Biology

Monika Chodasiewicz

Assistant Professor of Plant Science | Principal Investigator of the Stress Granule Lab

Salim Al-Babili

Professor of Plant Science and Bioengineering | Principal Investigator of the BioActives Lab | Associate Dean of the Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering Division

Research Interests: plant metabolic engineering, plant hormones, carotenoids and apocarotenoids, root parasitic plants, plant biotic interactions, small molecules, plant growth regulators

Simon G. Krattinger

Assistant Professor of Plant Science | Principal Investigator of the Cereal Genetics and Genomics Lab

Research Interests: cereal crops, genomics, plant-pathogen interactions, quantitative genetics

Yoshihide Wada

Professor of Plant Science and Environmental Science and Engineering

Research Interests: system science, materials modeling, water-food-energy security, biosphere management, earth systems science