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PBIO Alumnus Andrew Kaiser (B.S. 2008), now a botanist at Mojave National Preserve, CA estimates that about 1.33 million Joshua trees, about 25% of all trees, were burned in an August wildfire.

After six years of exemplary leadership, Lisa Donovan handed over the reigns of the Plant Biology Department to John Burke on August 1st, 2020.

Congratulations to Katrien Devos and Anny Chung (UGA Plant Biology) and their collaborators Jeff Bennetzen and Jonathan Arnold (UGA Genetics) and Nancy Johnson (Northern Arizona University) who were awarded more than $11 million from the Department of Energy (DOE) to study sustainable…

Congratulations to Michelle Momany on becoming a fellow of the Mycological Society of America!

John Burke and Lisa Donovan along with colleagues from British Columbia uncovered a set of "supergenes" that help sunflowers adapt to different environments and are contributing to the amazing diversity in sunflower species today. Because the wild species included in this study can be…