Wallace, Jason
Research Interests:
My research focuses on using quantitative genetics, genomics, statistics, and bioinformatics to improve crops. My lab has a small field and wet-lab component and a large computational one; our work includes genome-wide marker development, trait mapping, population genetics, and genome assembly. Maize is the lab workhorse, and we also have collaborations in other crops. Recently we also started using our toolsets to investigate the relationship between crop plants and their microbiome (the collection of all microbes living on and inside the plant), with the eventual goal of using this knowledge to improve crop breeding and management.