Plant Breeding and Genetics Lab

The Plant Breeding and Genetics Lab is led by Professor Jesse Poland. The group's research focuses on the formidable questions of how to develop climate resilient crops to address the grand challenges of food security in the coming generations. It leads work on important crops including wheat and date palm to better understand the dynamic plant genomes and increasing genetic gain in crop breeding. Looking at the grand challenges facing agriculture, the lab also focuses on species with extreme stress tolerance such as saltgrass (Distichlis spp.) that can grow in salinity at the level of seawater. Neodomestication, breeding, and cultivation of such species could provide a trajectory change for agriculture in the face of hotter climates and rapidly shrinking water reserves.

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