Marcin Nowicki
Specialization: Invasive species
Speciation Inferred using the population genetics approach and evolutionary tools. Comparative genomics Evolutionary inferences using the (cytoplasmic) genomes comparisons. Plant biochemistry Molecular background of the utility traits (color, growth habit, [a]biotic stress resistance).
Invasive species. We analyze diversity of the ornamental callery pear (Pyrus calleryana), as well as several important plant pathogens using population genetics and evolutionary inferences.
- What makes species invasive? We address this question by comparing the species diversity in their native area, with this in the invasive area, using population genetics approaches. How species become? To answer this question, we study closely-related species using population genetics and evolutionary inferences, including the phylogeography details. Both SSRs and sequence data are analyzed for this purpose.
- How plants attune? Biochemical, molecular, and microscopic analyses help us identify, what constitutes the basis for plant desirable response to the [a]biotic stress factors.
2505 E J Chapman Drive
Knoxville, TN 37996-4500
- Doctorate, Plant Sciences, General, Other, 2006
Marcin Nowicki
2505 E J Chapman Drive
Knoxville, TN 37996-4500
- Doctorate, Plant Sciences, General, Other, 2006
Speciation Inferred using the population genetics approach and evolutionary tools. Comparative genomics Evolutionary inferences using the (cytoplasmic) genomes comparisons. Plant biochemistry Molecular background of the utility traits (color, growth habit, [a]biotic stress resistance).
Invasive species. We analyze diversity of the ornamental callery pear (Pyrus calleryana), as well as several important plant pathogens using population genetics and evolutionary inferences.
- What makes species invasive? We address this question by comparing the species diversity in their native area, with this in the invasive area, using population genetics approaches. How species become? To answer this question, we study closely-related species using population genetics and evolutionary inferences, including the phylogeography details. Both SSRs and sequence data are analyzed for this purpose.
- How plants attune? Biochemical, molecular, and microscopic analyses help us identify, what constitutes the basis for plant desirable response to the [a]biotic stress factors.