
The over-arching goal of my research program is to elucidate the physiological mechanisms that regulate plant growth and development under normal and stressful environments. In my lab, we apply plant physiology, molecular biology and functional genomics approaches to study how plants respond to water limitation at cellular, tissue, whole-plant scales. The fundamental knowledge developed from our studies, in the long-term, will pave the way to promote stress-responsive growth in plants and to optimize them for sustainable food and energy production.