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Understanding how viruses infect insects Gary Blissard Understanding how plant hormones control fruit development Carmen Catala Unraveling the complexity of fleshy fruit transcriptomes Zhangjun Fei Understanding the genetic basis of fruit development and ripening Jim Giovannoni Understanding how soil fungi supply plants with mineral nutrients Maria Harrison Understanding how viruses commandeer plants and insects to promote their own trasmission Michelle Heck Molecular and chemical ecology of plant-insect interactions Georg Jander Understanding how plants acquire immunity to disease Dan Klessig Understanding the origin and evolution of plant diversity Fay-Wei Li How do bacteria infect plants and how do plants defend themselves from such attacks? Greg Martin Understanding how scientists can harness Big Data for research and breeding Lukas Mueller Understanding different aspects of epigenetics Eric Richards Small-molecule signaling in model organisms Frank Schroeder Understanding how plants coordinate genes in different compartments David Stern Applying the techniques of genetics and biotechnology to plant research Joyce Van Eck
