Department of Agronomy
Wheat growing in lab setting.

Crop Ecophysiology Lab

We have expertise in the impacts of abiotic stress on grain crops and are passionate about sharing knowledge with the next generation of agronomists.

The goal of the Crop Ecophysiology Lab (CELab) is to help develop next generation crop varieties with greater resilience to harsh environmental conditions. We aim to:

  • Explore physiological mechanisms and identify promising traits that can help enhance abiotic stress resilience in field crops.
  • Employ classical physiological methods and high throughput phenotyping approaches to capture wide genetic diversity (including landraces and wild accessions) for the traits of interest.
  • Integrate phenome to genome, to identify effective and stable genomic regions that can induce a quantum leap in abiotic stress resilience.
  • Develop outputs that can make quantifiable impact on the growers field, through close collaboration and regular feedback from the breeders and commodity commissioners.