Interdisciplinary Research Training Group on Mechanisms of Plant Evolution

这是美国能源部/美国国家科学基金会/美国农业部植物生物学合作研究项目的一个单位。研究培训小组的研究主题是植物的分子进化。该计划的长期目标是鼓励在植物分子遗传学、种群遗传学、系统学、植物解剖学和进化生物学方面的教职员工之间加强互动和合作，并培养有能力构思、设计和实施研究的植物生物学家，将植物分子进化的多个方面的概念和技术整合在一起。该项目涉及教职员工、博士后、研究生和本科生。该小组将致力于以下方面的研究：(1)基因组进化：植物基因组的遗传结构；(2)植物物种内部和物种之间的基因组谱系；(3)植物结构和基因组组织的进化解释。

This is a unit of DOE/NSF/USDA Collaborative Research in Plant Biology Program. The research training group focuses its research theme on molecular evolution of plants. The long-range goal of the program is to encourage greater interaction and cooperation among faculty members in plant molecular genetics, population genetics, systematics, plant anatomy, and evolutionary biology, and to develop plant biologists who have the capacity to conceive, design and implement research that integrates the concepts and techniques of multiple facets of plant molecular evolution. The program involves faculty members, postdocs, graduate students and undergraduate students. The group will focus their research efforts on studies of: (1) genome evolution: the genetic architecture of plant genomes, (2) genome genealogies within and among plant species, and (3) evolutionary interpretation of plant structure and genome organization.