Faculty and Research
The department has 31 Faculty including adjunct and joint members from other Cornell Departments, the USDA Plant, Soil & Nutrition Laboratory and The Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research.
Research in Plant Biology encompasses a broad range of topics, including:
- Plant Systematics, Evolution and Paleobotany
- Plant Development, Structures and Reproduction
- Chloroplast and Mitochondrial Biology
- Plant Interactions with the Abiotic and Biotic Environment and
- Genomics of Plant Diversity
Faculty Spotlight
Kevin Nixon
Professor
I have diverse research interests in the theory and practice of plant systematics. My taxonomic interests include higher level analysis of seed plant and angiosperm relationships, and relationships of Hamamamelid and Rosid ordinal and family relationships. I work at the generic and species level... Read Kevin Nixon's full profile