Ph.D. Candidate

Division of Plant Science and TechnologyTyler McCubbin, PhD Candidate, Plant Sciences, University of Missouri

(Co-Advised with David Braun, Divisions of Plant Science and Technology and Biological Sciences)

Email: tm284@mail.missouri.edu

Education
  • MS, Plant BiologyWith emphasis in Biochemistry, Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of California, Davis (Advisor: Eduardo Blumwald)
  • BS, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of California, Davis
Research Interests

I am interested in all aspects of how plants grow and respond to their environment. In particular, my research focuses on response of maize nodal roots to water deficit stress, the impact of drought on source-sink dynamics, and investigating the genetic control of resource partitioning.

Posters/Invited Presentations/Publications
  • McCubbin T, King S, Greeley L, Mertz R, Sen S, Casy K, Niehues N, Becker C, Zeng S, Stemmle J, Joshi T, Peck S, Oliver M, Fritschi F, Braun D, Sharp R. Transcriptomic Response of Maize Nodal Root Growth under Precisely Controlled Water Deficit. Interdisciplinary Plant Group Symposium, U. Missouri, 5-19
  • McCubbin T, King S, Greeley L, Mertz R, Sen S, Casy K, Niehues N, Becker C, Zeng S, Stemmle J, Joshi T, Peck S, Oliver M, Fritschi F, Braun D, Sharp, R. Transcriptomic response of maize nodal root growth under precisely controlled water deficit. Soc. Root Research, Jerusalem, Israel, 7-18