The institute maintains leadership in many promising fields of genetics, breeding, cell and molecular biology, evolutionary and
physiological genetics, systems biology, biotechnology, and biomedicine.
In studies reported in the 2009 book Petunia: Evolutionary, Developmental, and
Physiological Genetics, the scientists indicate that the technique can be used to study as many as five independent genes in a single experiment.
Physiological genetics of the dominant gibberellin-nonresponsive maize dwarfs, Dwarf8 and Dwarf9.