Understanding and engineering the logic behind plant decisions
Understanding and engineering the logic behind plant decisions
Investigating stochastic patterns in plant development
Our research examines how the balance of genetic and epigenetic regulation contributes to phenotypic variability in plants. We're particularly interested in:
Understanding sRNA and epigenetic regulation of flower pigmentation patterns
We study how small RNAs and epigenetic marks create and maintain complex patterns of cell identity in flower pigmentation, using ornamental plants as model systems:
Exposing the contribution of epialleles to heritable variation in apomictic dandelions
Investigating how natural epigenetic variation contributes to heritable trait variation in clonally reproducing dandelions, using epigenomic editing to demonstrate causality.