Physiology, Biochemistry, and Molecular Biology
Physiology, Biochemistry, and Molecular Biology offers a strong graduate curriculum and research program to students interested in how plants work at the whole plant, cellular, or molecular levels. Understanding physiological mechanisms makes it possible to optimize plant growth conditions and manipulate genetic make up to enhance important traits or reduce production costs and environmental problems. Participating faculty offer a diversity of basic and applied research programs.
| Faculty member | Discipline | |
| David Gardner | Turfgrass stress physiology | gardner.254@osu.edu |
| JC Jang | Plant signal transduction | jang.40@osu.edu |
| Michelle Jones | Molecular biology of flower senescence | Jones.1968@osu.edu |
| David Mackey | Molecular mechanisms that dictate the resistance/susceptibility of plants to disease. | mackey.86@osu.edu |
| Margaret (Peg) McMahon | Physiology and production of flowers, photomorphogenesis | mcmahon.43@osu.edu |
| Jim Metzger | Molecular basis for the environmental control of flowering | metzger.72@osu.edu |
| A. Raymond (Ray) Miller | Plant alkaloids and other secondary metabolic products | miller.5@osu.edu |
| Joe Scheerens | Physiological and biochemical basis of fruit and vegetable phytonutritional and sensory quality | scheerens.1@osu.edu |
| Eric Stockinger | Molecular genetics of low temperature and freezing tolerance in plants | stockinger.4@osu.edu |
| Esther van der Knaap | Tomato fruit development, gene expression, molecular biology of fruit shape. | vanderknaap.1@osu.edu |
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Department of Horticulture and Crop Science
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