Graduate Students
André Lucas Simões Araujo
Ph.D., Weed Science
Advisor – Todd Gaines
Research Area
I am investigating auxin herbicide resistance in kochia populations from Colorado, focusing on both metabolism and the genetic basis of resistance, as well as herbicide recurrent selection using a mixture of auxin herbicides.
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Sofía Marques Hill
Ph.D., Weed Science
Advisor – Todd Gaines
Research Area
Weed Molecular Biology. Understanding herbicide resistance to synthetic auxins. Genetic mapping of herbicide resistance to pre-emergents in Lolium rigidum. Building the reference genome of Cirsium arvense and understanding sex determination.
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William Kramer
Ph.D., Weed Science
Advisor – Dr. Todd Gaines
Research Area
My current research focuses on understanding the cause of quizalofop herbicide injury in CoAxium winter wheat using a variety of molecular biology techniques.
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Amber Pelon
M.S., Weed Science
Advisors – Franck Dayan and Todd Gaines
Research Area
Understanding quizalofop metabolism in CoAxium wheat and troubleshooting problems that farmers are seeing in the field with CoAxium wheat.
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Catherine Traxler
Ph.D., Weed Science
Advisors – Franck Dayan and Todd Gaines
Research Area
The role of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in herbicidal activity by exploring herbicidal modes of action that involve the production of ROS and oxidative damage to gain a better understanding of plant stress and the possibility of utilizing this knowledge in the development of new her
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Curtis Lefler
M.S., Weed Science
Advisor – Lovreet Shergill
Research Area
Studying Herbicide resistance within different populations of kochia.