Presidential Young Investigator Award

这是一个总统青年研究人员奖，以支持一位才华横溢的年轻玉米遗传学家。她的研究兴趣是高等植物线粒体基因表达领域，她将使用线粒体功能受到影响的玉米(玉米)突变株作为高等植物线粒体遗传分析的材料。她还对核基因组和线粒体基因组之间的相互关系感兴趣，并将利用种间杂交来研究这一问题(例如，携带家用玉米(玉米)核的杂交玉米植株和野生玉米(线粒体基因组)细胞质(线粒体基因组)，以确定这些基因组如何影响彼此在完整植物细胞中的表达。

This is a Presidential Young Investigator Award, to support an extraordinarily talented young maize geneticist. Her research interests are in the area of mitochondrial gene expression in higher plants, and she will be using mutants of maize (corn) which are affected in mitochondrial functions as materials for the genetic analysis of higher plant mitochondria. She is also interested in the interrelationship between nuclear and mitochondrial genomes, and will use interspecific hybrids to study this (e.g., hybrid corn plants carrying domestic corn (maize) nuclei and wild maize (teosintes) cytoplasms (mitochondrial genomes) to determine how these genomes affect each others' expression in the intact plant cell.