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• Plant resistance to soil-based abiotic stresses, focusing on low-pH (acidic), aluminum, and heavy-metal stresses
• Plant mineral nutrition with an emphasis on mineral transport and allocation
• Root development under abiotic stresses

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• Fruit crop stress physiology and adaptation
• Graft physiology and phenotypic plasticity
• Comparative genetics and genomics

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• Farmer-centric on-farm experimentation
• Farm data management
• Precision agriculture

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• Predictive understanding of land ecosystem dynamics
• Global change impacts on ecosystem structure and functions
• Climate mitigation via carbon dioxide removal (CDR) strategies

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• Reactions at soil interfaces
• Soil biogeochemistry at the molecular-scale
• Soil carbon, nitrogen and metal cycling

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• Biodiversity & Biogeography
• Alpine flora
• Herbarium and museum science

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• Greenhouse horticulture
• Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA)
• Greenhouse lighting and systems engineering

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• Vegetable breeding (cucurbits, peppers, peas and beans)
• Biochemical genetics for flavor, human nutrition and plant defense
• Applied quantitative genetics

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• Cropping systems ecology
• Climate change adaptation and mitigation
• Agricultural sustainability, food security, water resources, international agriculture, policy, and applied social sciences

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• Plant-microbiome-environment interactions
• Extracellular vesicle-mediated communication
• Plant health and resilience in a changing climate

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• Flower bulbs and floriculture
• Greenhouse and nursery crops
• Physiology and post-harvest management

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• Evolution of plant specialized metabolism
• Use of AI in plant biochemistry and genomics in crop stress resilience
• Synthetic biology for engineering novel metabolic pathways

Interest

• Breeding for sustainable cropping systems
• Cover crops, intercropping, polycultures, organic farming systems
• Legumes, forages, alfalfa, hemp