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Dr. Nyssa Temmel investigated the genomics of gender regulation and the genes involved in unisexual flower development in Populus trichocarpa. She discovered novel, gender biased gene expression for nine genes involved in flower development, and investigated gender biased gene expression in the Poplar genome.
A randomly-selected Doctoral citation each day: today from the Doctor of Philosophy in Botany (PhD) - graduated in 2012