Research

Current Projects:

Gaines Lab

Working with Arabidopsis transporter mutants and the effect on herbicide translocation
Synthetic membrane experiments to predict herbicide transport
Assembling and annotating the Kochia genome
Annotating the Kochia transcriptome
Synthetically increasing gene copy number for increased plant yield
Kochia housekeeping genes for qPCR
Dicamba resistance in Kochia
Miniaturizing plant dose response curves using plate assays
Population genetics of glyphosate resistant Palmer amaranth
2,4-D resistant Indian Hedge Mustard resistance mechanism
Metabolic resistance in dicots by recurrent selection in Palmer amaranth and Kochia
Palmer amaranth and waterhemp normalization genes for qRT-PCR
Sequencing herbicide target site genes in grain sorghum
Survey of winter annual grass weeds for seed retention at harvest and for herbicide resistance
Wheat mutagenesis to develop novel traits
Characterizing resistance to QPE in Wheat
2,4-D resistant waterhemp resistance mechanism
Developing SSR markers for population genetics in Kochia scoparia
Yeast assay to experimentally test candidate herbicide resistance genes
P450 cloning and characterization
ALS resistance in Kochia by point mutation and metabolism
Pathogen resistance in Kochia with the USDA
Somatic propagation of Kochia for copy number variance
Population genetics of glyphosate resistant Kochia
Determine glyphosate resistance mechanism in a Kochia population that has low-level glyphosate resistance but does not have EPSPS gene duplication