External Website:
http://agronomy.unl.edu/waters

My research focus is biofortification of crops by increasing iron and zinc density in edible portions of plants. Understanding plant nutritional physiology and molecular genetics is key to this goal. Research in the lab focuses on plant responses to mineral nutrient limitation, the physiological processes that move minerals from the soil, through the plant, and into the edible portions, and seeks to determine which genes or gene products carry out or regulate these processes. Research in the lab focuses on regulation of plant responses to iron deficiency stress.