Research

Complex interactions

  • Bacteriophage-rhizobium-legume interactions

Organismal responses to environmental change

  • Microbial phylogeography and dispersal
  • Microbial symbiont responses to invasive hosts
  • Annual lupines across California

Evolutionary maintenance of mutualisms

  • Legumes & rhizobia
  • Fig trees & fig wasps

Antagonistic interactions

  • Granivore effects on plant density
  • Evolution of resistance to consumers
    • Fitness costs of plant resistance to pathogens
    • Fitness costs of plant resistance to insect herbivores

Adaptation

      • Seed coat color polymorphisms in lupines
      • QTL mapping of Arabidopsis plasticity

Dormancy

    • Adult dormancy in terrestrial orchids
    • Seed dormancy in lupines