University of Delaware Participating Faculty Plant Biology and Biotechnology

John S. Boyer	Professor, Member of National Academy of Sciences	Relationship between turgor pressure and plant growth and development; drought resistance; effects of drought/dessication on photosynthesis
Robert B. Carroll	Professor	Screening for disease resistance in field crops; DNA fingerprinting of Phytopthora isolates
Kirk Czymmek	Associate Professor	Fungal-plant pathogenic interactions and mechanisms of fungal hyphal tip growth
Thomas A. Evans	Associate Professor	Detection, characterization and control of viruses affecting vegetables and soybeans
Jeffry Fuhrmann	Professor	Interaction of nitrogen fixing bacteria with soybean; molecular ecology of soil microbes
John L. Gallagher	Professor	Ecology, propagation and transformation of halophytes; mechanisms of salt tolerance in plants
Pamela Green	Professor	RNA stability, degradation and function in plants
James A. Hawk	Professor	Crop plant breeding with an emphasis on breeding for insect pest, disease, and drought resistance
Sherry Kitto	Professor	Tissue culture-based micropropagation of native plants
Eric B. Kmiec	Professor	Homologous recombination and gene replacement in plants, mammals and microbes; human gene therapy
Jung-Youn Lee	Assistant Professor	Cell-to-cell communication through plasmodesmata in plants
Blake C. Meyers	Assistant Professor	Structure/function studies of plant disease resistance genes, and whole-genome methods to analyze plant gene expression
Allan D. Shapiro	Assistant Professor	Biochemical, molecular genetic and systems biology approaches to plant disease resistance signal transduction
Janine Sherrier	Assistant Professor	Development and function of the Medicago trunculata symbiosome--a combined proteomics, genomics and cell biology approach to understanding an organelle formed in response to infection with Rhizobium
K. Eric Wommack	Assistant Professor	Role of viruses and viral infection within microbial communities; influence of microbial community structure on biogeochemical processes; involvement of bacterial consortia in the degradation of pollutants
Byung-Chun Yoo	Biotech Institute Fellow	Signal transduction at the whole-plant level: Protein and RNA-based signaling through phloem

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