# overview
The Systems Plant Physiology program is developing crops with enhanced nutritional qualities and identifying new methods to improve environmental attributes. This program focuses on plant biology and its integrations with micro and macro environments, utilizing physiological, molecular, or metabolic traits to understand associated biological processes. Our broad goal is developing crop varieties with enhanced crop productivity, nutritional qualities and tolerance to abiotic stresses for greater adaptability. The critical areas of research we focus on are: Nitrogen use efficiency, nitrogen sensing, transport and assimilation, Molecular and genetic aspects of plant metabolism.

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Citrullus Lanatus (thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai

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Aspartate-Derived Amino Acid Biosynthesis in Arabidopsis thaliana.

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Phenotypic and Genetic Diversity of Texas A&M AgriLife Tomato Breeding Lines

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Interdependence of threonine, methionine and isoleucine metabolism in plants: accumulation and transcriptional regulation under abiotic stress.

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Nitrogen Assimilation and Efficacy of Bio-Stimulants in Organic Spinach Production

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Biosynthesis and Defensive Function of N  Δ-Acetylornithine, a Jasmonate-Induced Arabidopsis Metabolite  

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Selection of nitrogen responsive root architectural traits in spinach using machine learning and genetic correlations.

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Genome-wide association study and genomic prediction of white rust resistance in USDA GRIN spinach germplasm.

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Transcriptomic Analysis of Short-Term Salt Stress Response in Watermelon Seedlings.

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Application of a high-throughput HPLC-MS/MS assay to Arabidopsis mutant screening; evidence that threonine aldolase plays a role in seed nutritional quality.

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Metabolic and Molecular Regulation of Citrulline Biosynthesis In Watermelon

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Genetic dissection of nitrogen induced changes in the shoot and root biomass of spinach.

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Systematized biosynthesis and catabolism regulate citrulline accumulation in watermelon.

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Haplotype Networking of GWAS Hits for Citrulline Variation Associated with the Domestication of Watermelon.

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Comparative analysis of tissue-specific transcriptomic responses to nitrogen stress in spinach (Spinacia oleracea).

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Overexpression of maize ZmLOX6 in Arabidopsis thaliana enhances damage-induced pentyl leaf volatile emissions that affect plant growth and interaction with aphids.

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Regulation of Oxalate Metabolism in Spinach Revealed by RNA-Seq-Based Transcriptomic Analysis.

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Arabidopsis Methionine γ-Lyase Is Regulated According to Isoleucine Biosynthesis Needs But Plays a Subordinate Role to Threonine Deaminase

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Recent progress in deciphering the biosynthesis of aspartate-derived amino acids in plants.

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Two Arabidopsis threonine aldolases are nonredundant and compete with threonine deaminase for a common substrate pool.

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Bitter gourd proteinase inhibitors: potential growth inhibitors of Helicoverpa armigera and Spodoptera litura.

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The catabolic enzyme methionine gamma-lyase limits methionine accumulation in potato tubers.

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Genome-wide association study and population structure analysis of seed-bound amino acids and total protein in watermelon.

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Regulation of Citrulline Metabolism in Watermelon

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Functional Relevance of Citrulline in the Vegetative Tissues of Watermelon During Abiotic Stresses.

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Developing Strategies for Mitigating the Impacts of Freezing on Olive Production in Texas

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Genetic Diversity and Population Structure Analysis of the USDA Olive Germplasm Using Genotyping-By-Sequencing (GBS).

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Comparison of nutritional and nutraceutical properties of Chenopodium quinoa cultivated in Mexico and Ecuador

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SciELO Agencia Nacional de Investigacion y Desarrollo (ANID)

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Seedling Stage Metabolic and Molecular Cues Associated with Stress Tolerance in Watermelons

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Broad-Spectrum Amino Acid Transporters ClAAP3 and ClAAP6 Expressed in Watermelon Fruits.

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Determination of Heat Stress Tolerance of Tomato Genotypes through Physiological and Biochemical Trait Responses

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Comparative Analysis of Root Transcriptome Profiles of Sesame (Sesamum indicumL.) in Response to Osmotic Stress

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Physiological and Biochemical Responses of Tomato Plants Grafted onto Solanum pennellii and Solanum peruvianum under Water-Deficit Conditions.