Students have the opportunity to conduct research in diverse areas of contemporary plant biology including plant genomics, gene regulation and silencing, signal transduction, cell biology, developmental biology, metabolism, plant-microbe interactions, paleobotany, physiological ecology, plant community ecology, conservation biology, and biology of aquatic and wetland ecosystems. The plant biology graduate faculty is a diverse, active, collegial, and well-funded group representing vast research approaches in plant biology, from molecules to ecosystems. We engage in interdisciplinary research projects and collaborate with faculty members in many departments across NC State. Our plant biologists (including USDA-ARS scientists) can be found the Departments of Crop and Soil Sciences, Horticultural Science, Molecular and Structural Biochemistry, Entomology and Plant Pathology, and Forestry and Environmental Resources. We also have several associate faculty members from agricultural biotechnology companies located in the Research Triangle.