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MOCB Program: Research in Plant Sciences

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Caren Chang - Molecular mechanisms of ethylene signal transduction in plants.

Gary Coleman - Expression and function of vegetative storage proteins in plants.

James Culver - Molecular biology of plant viruses and plant-virus interactions.

Elisabeth Gantt - Assembly of photosynthetic membrane assembly and isoprenoid biosynthesis.

Steven W. Hutcheson - Molecular events in plant-microbe interactions in bacterial pathogenesis and disease resistance.

Zhongchi Liu - Molecular genetics of flower development in Arabidopsis.

Theo Solomos - Biochemistry of plant senescence.

David C. Straney - Molecular interactions between plants and fungal pathogens.

Heven Sze - Biochemistry and molecular biology of ion pumps, cotransporters and channels.

Stephen M. Wolniak - Biology of cell motility, mitotic mechanisms, and signal transduction.