Graduate Students
Young Suk Chung
Title:
Graduate Student
Office:
341 Horticulture
Phone:
(608) 8900242
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About You:
Finding a resistant snap bean line to white mold.
Katie Clark
Title:
Graduate Student
Office:
495 Horticulture
Phone:
(608) 2652812
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A high-throughput approach to analyze the functions of the mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) gene family in Arabidopsis.
Michael Copas
Title:
Graduate Student
Office:
482 Horticulture
Phone:
(608) 2626965
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The effects of soil compaction and deep subsoil tillage on yield and quality of potato. In relation, water content is monitored within and beneath potato hills, the effects on rooting, and on storability of potatoes following harvest. Attemping to identify the cause of an increasing occurance of potato pink eye in the vegetable growing region of Central Wisconsin.
Nicholas Goeser
Title:
Graduate Student
Office:
481 Horticulture
Phone:
(608) 2626965
Email:
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The main goals of my research project are to evaluate and determine a sustainable organic fertility management system for an organic processing vegetable rotation. Sustainability is be defined as the minimal impact of an organic fertility system on environment (N leaching), profitability of implementing an organic fertility system, and feasibility across expanded acreages.
Shanna Johnson
Title:
Graduate Student
Office:
209 Horticulture
Phone:
(608) 2620028
Email:
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Mapping fruit quality characteristics in pickling cucumber (Cucumis sativa). Analyzing combining ability and inheritance of two traits related to fruit quality.
Piya Kittipadakul
Title:
Graduate Student
Office:
327B Horticulture
Phone:
(608) 2629543
Email:
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Studying genetic model for tuberization in potato.
Amber Roberson
Title:
Graduate Student
Office:
496 Horticulture
Phone:
(608) 2628332
Email:
About You:
Delayed floral abscission and dehiscence in Arabidopsis thaliana; using the knowledge to reduce seed shatter in canola.
Shih-Heng Su
Title:
Graduate Student
Office:
403 Horticulture
Phone:
(608) 2652812
Email:
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Studying possible proteins interaction of MAP Kinase signaling pathway in Arabidopsis.
Carl Tornqvist
Title:
Graduate Student
Office:
496 Horticulture
Phone:
(608) 2628332
Email:
About You:
Elucidating Functions of Plant Receptor-Like Kinases using Arabidopsis thaliana as a Model System. The proteins of the 600 member family called plant receptor-like kinases (RLKs) have been implicated in growth and development and disease resistance, yet only less than 30 have known function. Using a high-throughput, reverse genetics approach, this project aims to isolate gene knockout lines for the RLKs of unknown function. By characterizing the phenotypes of these mutant lines, one can assess the role of the wild type genes.
Jason Walling
Title:
Graduate Student
Office:
409 Horticulture
Phone:
(608) 2629796
Email:
About You:
I am particularly interested in studying the evolution of genes within plants. To that end I am using a variety approaches including cytogenetics and genomics to study the distribution of and evolution of genes contained within centromeres across several related species of Oryza (rice).
