Initiator and active collaborator with research programs from the University of Minnesota, Michigan State University, University of Wisconsin, Cornell University, NRGENE, and the University of Illinois that led to the recent release of the second assembled and genotype specific annotated maize genome, that of the Iodent progenitor PH207.
Assessment of genetic diversity within crop breeding programs and concomitant impact of pervasive breeding by recycling closely related germplasm.
Genealogy, and discovery and characterization of progenitor cultivars of contemporary vegetable and field crop cultivars
Studying differences in genomic architecture between maize lines to characterize genic copy number variation and the influence of these dispensable genes on phenotype.
