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
