Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology

Jonathan Wendel

Visit my homepage at: http://www.eeob.iastate.edu/faculty/WendelJ/home.html

Research interests in my lab encompass molecular and genome evolution, phylogenetics, and phenotypic evolution of higher plants.  In our laboratory we use a diverse set of technologies and approaches to explore the manner in which genomes change over evolutionary time, as well as the relationship between these events and morphological change. We have a particular interest in the mysterious and common phenomenon of polyploidy, with a special focus on the cotton genus.

Natural variation in fiber characteristics among wild and cultivated species
Collecting Gossypium bickii in central Australia
With cotton plant at ISU in the greenhouse
Collecting cotton in Texas
Natural variation in fiber traits
Flower of the Hawaiian Islands endemic species G. tomentosum
Flowers of Gossypium nobile, from tropical NW Australia
Feral G. hirsutum from Oaxaca, Mexico