Tsai, Chung-Jui
Research Interest
Much of the research in our lab has been sparked by the simple question, what makes a tree a tree? Some of the areas we are interested in include plant biology, tree longevity, gene functionalities, proteins, metabolites, gene family evolution, functional diversification, transgenic manipulation, transcriptomics, and bioinformatics.
We use a variety of experimental approaches ranging from transcriptomics (microarray and RNA-Seq) to metabolite profiling (GC-MS and HPLC-MS) and bioinformatics to the more traditional tools of genetics, biochemistry, plant physiology and transgenics to further our knowledge on these topics.