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John W. Gronwald

Plant Physiologist

John Gronwald

 

B.S., University of Illinois, Agricultural Science

M.S., University of Illinois, Agronomy

Ph.D., University of Illinois, Biology (Plant Physiology)

 

Research Interests

  • Improving alfalfa as a biofuel feedstock and livestock feed by modifying composition of cell walls.

 

Current or Planned Experiments

  • Using gene overexpression and silencing (RNA interference) to evaluate the role of selected genes in regulating cell wall composition.
  • Characterizing global gene expression in alfalfa using RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) analysis.

     
Last Modified: 09/19/2012