Michael Mazourek, Cornell University
Assistant Professor
Ithaca, New York
mm284@cornell.edu
Office:
(607) 254-7256
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Bio/Research
The overall theme of my program is innovation of vegetables for adaptation for production in the Northeastern US and to be of improved quality and nutrition for consumers. I conduct much of this selection in Organic systems that represent a more natural environment. By working in a natural enviro...
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Bio/Research
The overall theme of my program is innovation of vegetables for adaptation for production in the Northeastern US and to be of improved quality and nutrition for consumers. I conduct much of this selection in Organic systems that represent a more natural environment. By working in a natural environment, I am better able to draw parallels between the artificial selection that takes place in plant breeding with the natural selection that has taken place during the evolution of crop progenitors. This process allows me to create new varieties that are contain otherwise cryptic factors that allow for crop production with fewer synthetic inputs and identify testable hypotheses regarding the genetic nature of these factors
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