Genomics of temperature response in plants. Climate change is predicted to have negative impacts on Australian agriculture. This project will use genomic tools to uncover biological mechanisms for plant response to temperature that will help design crop varieties that are more tolerant to higher temperatures.
Functional analysis of alternative splicing in plants. Higher temperatures affect flowering and seed set in plants. How plants sense and respond to temperature is currently unclear. Here we study alternative splicing, one of the processes affected by temperature. These studies will advance our knowledge and help develop crops that can withstand negative effects of climate change.