Specialty Areas
Plant Biology
The green kingdom provides a myriad of opportunities for the study of basic cellular, molecular and developmental processes, and promises discoveries that could revolutionize the field of agriculture. Able to take on a dizzying variety of shapes, driven by intracellular processes and cellular processes of incredible speed, eminently adaptable to its environment, and capable of hurling up physical and chemical bulwarks against attack, the plant is still no superhero. Each year, billions of dollars of crop plants are lost to aggressive fungal, bacterial, and viral pathogens. Purdue researchers are at the vanguard of the new era of plant biology, probing the molecular structure of these pathogens and their unique modes of assault.
