Annis Richardson

I am Senior Lecturer in Molecular Crop Science at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

My lab, The Plant Shape Lab (www.theplantshapelab.org), studies the gene regulatory networks (GRNs) that underpin plant growth and development, and the link between morphology and crop resilience, quality and yield. We have a particular focus on cereal crops (working on barley, maize, and Erogrostis tef currently). Through better understanding the GRNs controlling cereal crop development, we aim to improve the predictability of engineering and breeding approaches to produce specific plant architectures for specific end uses, agronomic practices and environments. We also use comparative evolutionary approaches to enable rapid translation of fundamental knowledge between species.