The Mason and Goolsby Labs presented a flurry of research projects at Botany 2022 in Anchorage, Alaska, the first in-person meeting of the Botanical Society of America since 2019. Postdoctoral scholar Dr. Keivan Bahmani, PhD students Sambadi Majumder, Megan Conway, and Rebekah Davis, undergraduate researcher Anisa Khalid, laboratory manager Orion Blevins, and Dr. Mason and …
Mason lab undergraduate researcher Marvin Mendoza was recently awarded the Distinguished Undergraduate Researcher Award by the UCF Office of Undergraduate Research for his outstanding research on mycorrhizal fungal symbiosis.
The Mason Lab was pleased to host visiting undergraduate researchers Charlene Hernandez and Samantha Maupin and post-baccalaureate student Shauntara Good during Summer 2022. Students assisted with research projects quantifying plant phytochemistry, documenting variation in photosynthetic efficiency, and assessing the toxicity of terpenoids against a model herbivore. Students presented their results in both poster and oral …
This summer we have been establishing a new experimental garden in the UCF Biology Horticulture and Ecology Research Area in support of multiple research projects! When fully planted out, this 15,000 sqft garden will contain dozens of varieties of crop sunflower (Helianthus annuus) along with dozens of species of wild relatives (genus Helianthus) from across …
Former undergraduate researcher Mari Irving talks terpenes and plant defense with ScienceIRL’s own Molly Edwards!
Dr. Mason was recently awarded a 2020 New Innovator Award from the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research, one of only eight such early-career grants awarded nationally. This funding will permit the Mason Lab to bioprospect for useful inducible chemical defenses in cultivated sunflower and wild relatives, develop improved hyperspectral reflectance phenotyping tools for plant …
Read a new paper to which I contributed, out recently in Environmental Research: “New insights into cadmium tolerance and accumulation in tomato: dissecting root and shoot responses using cross-genotype grafting.” – full PDF here. Continue reading
Read a new paper to which we contributed, out recently in Castanea: “The effects of varying nutrient availability on females and hermaphrodites of the gynodioecious Geranium maculatum.” – full PDF here. Continue reading
Read our new paper, out recently in Mycorrhiza: “Genetic control of arbuscular mycorrhizal colonization by Rhizophagus intraradices in Helianthus annuus (L.).” – full PDF here. Continue reading
Read a new paper to which we contributed, out recently in Plant Cell Reports: “Comparative phosphoproteomic analysis of tomato genotypes with contrasting cadmium tolerance” – full PDF here. Continue reading
Read our new paper, out recently in Plant Disease: “Evolution of disease severity and susceptibility in the Asteraceae to the powdery mildew Golovinomyces latisporus: major phylogenetic structure coupled with highly variable disease severity at fine scales” – full PDF here. Continue reading
Read our new paper, out recently in Chemoecology: “Covariation in plant volatile metabolites: physiochemical properties as a proxy for enzymatic pathways and an alternative metric of biosynthetic constraint” – full PDF here. Continue reading
Read our new paper, out recently in American Journal of Botany: “Evolutionary trade-offs in the chemical defense of floral and fruit tissues across genus Cornus” – full PDF here. Continue reading
Read our new paper, out recently in Annals of Botany: “Impact of genome duplication on secondary metabolite composition in non-cultivated species: a systematic meta-analysis” – full PDF here. Continue reading
Read our new paper, out recently in International Journal of Plant Sciences: “Learning from dynamic traits: seasonal shifts yield insights into ecophysiological tradeoffs across scales from macroevolutionary to intra-individual” – full PDF here. Continue reading
Read our new paper, out recently in the Journal of Heredity: “Genome-wide association mapping of floral traits in cultivated sunflower (Helianthus annuus)” – full PDF here. Continue reading
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