The department has 31 Faculty including adjunct and joint members from other Cornell Departments, the USDA Plant, Soil & Nutrition Laboratory and The Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research. Some 20 postdoctoral fellows and research associates are working in the department.
Research in Plant Biology encompasses a broad range of topics, including:
- Plant Systematics, Evolution and Paleobotany
- Plant Development, Structures and Reproduction
- Chloroplast and Mitochondrial Biology
- Plant Interactions with the Abiotic and Biotic Environment and
- Genomics of Plant Diversity
Over the last years, several new faculty members were hired in the context of the Cornell Genome Initiative.
Melissa A Luckow
Associate Professor
Overview
My research focuses on speciation and phylogeny of flowering plants, particularly the legume family. I am currently working on several interrelated projects in the mimosoid legumes. The first is a study of three genera in the Dichrostachys group. This group has radiated widely throughout... Read More
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