The Division
of Gene Expression an Regulation
at the National Institute for Basic Biology in Japan studies
development and morphogenesis of flowers using Arabidopsis thaliana.
Victor Albert in the New York Botanical Garden
studies MADS-box genes in Asteraceae.
Gynheung An in the Department of Life Sciences
Pohang University of Science and Technology
studies MADS-box genes in rice (Oryza sativa)
Jo Ann Banks
in the Department of Botany and Plant Pathology,
Purdue University
is interested in MADS-box genes in the fern Ceratopteris richardii.
Peter Engström in the Department of Physiological Botany,
Uppsala University, studies MADS-box genes in Norway spruce (Picea abies)
Michael Frohlich and Susan Fuerstenberg at the University of Michigan Herbarium
are interested in the evolution of MADS-box genes and of flowers.
Vivian Irish in the Department of Biology at the Yale University
is especially interested in floral homeotic genes of the B-type.
Hong Ma
in the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory studies MADS-box genes in Arabidopsis.
The Krizek lab
is interested in understanding the developmental processes that are
involved in patterning a flower and uses Arabidopsis as a
model system.
Bill Martin and Jens Pahnke in the Institut für Genetik,
Technische Universitaet Braunschweig, work on MADS-box genes
in the fern Ceratopteris richardii (in cooperation with Theissen group).
The Meyerowitz lab
studies several plant processes, using Arabidopsis thaliana
as a model system.
M. Enrico Pë in the Dept. of Genetics and Microbiology,
works on MADS-box genes in rice, maize and sorghum.
Michael
D. Purugganan at the NCSU genetics department investigates the
molecular evolution of flower development.
Robert J. Schmidt at the University of California - San Diego
works on MADS-box genes in maize (Zea mays)
Bob Teasdale and Aidyn Mouradov at ForBio Ltd
work on MADS-box genes in the pine Pinus radiata.
The Theißen group at the
Max-Planck-Institut
für Züchtungsforschung in Cologne, Germany works
on MADS box genes in Zea mays and in ferns like Ceratopteris
and Ophioglossum.