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.
Peter John Davies
Professor
Overview
Peter Davies has a prime appointment in teaching plant physiology to students of agriculture and horticulture, though he has also taught plant growth and development, plant hormones, and spent three years teaching introductory biology to non majors. In 2007 he was planning a new course "Issues in... Read More
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