Research Interests
My
work addresses the evolution and classification of flowering plants,
both their morphological and molecular characteristics. The generation
of evolutionary trees for both genes and species is an important
aspect of this work. Understanding the nature of evolutionary change
requires not only a phylogeny of species, but also detailed study
of development and the underlying genetics of the organism.
Current
projects are 1) a molecular phylogeny of relatives of maize, sugar
cane and sorghum; 2) developmental morphology and gene expression
in unisexual flowers; 3) comparative development of inflorescences,
and 4) molecular phylogeny of the grass family, the latter a combination
of data from seven different genes, plus morphology.
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