• Mobilizing transgenes into potato cultivars to confer resistance to microbial pathogens.
• Continuous investigation and characterization of agronomically useful genes from wild Solanum species.
• Application of genomics to citrus improvement.
• Down-regulation of undesirable glycoalkaloid toxicants and  tuber bruise reactions using antisense or siRNA technology.

We continue to clone and characterize agronomically useful control elements and vectors for use in the research community.

We seek to discover important mechanisms involved in gene evolution and function by mapping and characterizing repetitive DNA elements within the genome.