David Goad, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center (IMAGE)
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"I am very excited to have received this grant," stated David Goad, Ph.D. candidate in the Washington University Evolution, Ecology, and Population Biology program. "The USGA has a strong history of supporting salt-tolerance research, and halophytic grasses such as seashore paspalum make for great systems to study this. Through the development of high-throughput phenotyping techniques and population genomic analyses, we will provide some of the first necessary steps to turn this turf grass species into a genomic model system. These new tools will open the door for future studies to determine the genetic basis of ecologically and economically relevant traits such as salt tolerance and growth rate."
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