Complex interactions

• Bacteriophage-rhizobium-legume interactions

Organismal responses to environmental change

• Microbial phylogeography and dispersal
• Microbial symbiont responses to invasive hosts
• Annual lupines across California

Evolutionary maintenance of mutualisms

• Legumes & rhizobia
• Fig trees & fig wasps

Antagonistic interactions

• Granivore effects on plant density
• Evolution of resistance to consumers
  • Fitness costs of plant resistance to pathogens
  • Fitness costs of plant resistance to insect herbivores

Adaptation

• • • Seed coat color polymorphisms in lupines
    • QTL mapping of Arabidopsis plasticity

Dormancy

• • Adult dormancy in terrestrial orchids
  • Seed dormancy in lupines