Global climate change has generated significant fluctuations in ambient growth temperature, which can profoundly influence diverse developmental, physiological, and morphological responses, including modulations in plant growth, flowering, immunity, and yield. Understanding how plants adjust their developmental programs in response to temperature variations is central to sustaining crop productivity. Research in my laboratory will use combined genetic, molecular, cellular, biochemical, and genomic approaches to determine how plants sense and respond to changes in ambient temperature.
Qiu Laboratory at Ole Miss 