Plant Genomics

With the completion of the Arabidopsis genome project, plant genomics has come of age.

Purdue University has a large group of faculty working on the frontier of genomic science. Faculty interests span a range of topics about how plants respond to biotic and abiotic stresses to the elucidation of biosynthetic pathways to applied research in crop improvement. Several groups collaborate on species-specific projects in:

• Arabidopsis Genomics,
  • Ray Bressan, Clint Chapple, Stanton Gelvin, Angus Murphy, Joe Ogas, Bob Pruitt, David Salt, Dan Szymanski
• Forestry Genomics,
• Maize Genomics,
  • Jeff Bennetzen, Wilfred Vermerris, Clifford Weil
• Tomato Genomics, and
  • Avtar Handa
• Wheat Genomics.
• Cellwall Genomics,
  • Nick Carpita, Wilfred Vermerris, Chris Staiger , Maureen McCann,

In addition to these exciting projects, a new effort to bridge the gap between model systems (Arabidopsis) and crop plants (Maize) is underway using state of the art metabolic profiling techniques.