Transposons, so-called jumping genes, are a threat to genomes, so plants work hard to prevent them from mobilizing and re-inserting into the genome. Spirodela polyrhiza, the most ancient member of the ...

Duckweed is a tiny floating plant that's been known to drive people daffy. It's one of the smallest and fastest-growing flowering plants that often becomes a hard-to-control weed in ponds and small ...

We study the processes of plant adaptation. We address fundamental questions in plant evolutionary ecology using an integrative approach that includes techniques and theories from comparative genomics ...