Barbara Schaal

Title:	Spencer T. Olin Professor in Arts and Sciences Professor of Biology Professor of Genetics
Degree:	PHD, Yale University MS, Yale University BS, University of Illinois
Dept:	American Culture Studies Biology Environmental Studies
Office:	McDonnell Hall 304
Mailbox:	Campus Box 1229 One Brookings Drive St. Louis, MO 63130-4899 Hide Full Mailing Address
Phone:	(314) 935-6822
E-mail:	schaal@wustl.edu

Courses
Evolution; Plants and American People: Past and Present; Plants, Enviroment and Civilization

Research Interests
Work in Professor Schaal's lab focuses on the evolutionary genetics of plants, often in collaboration with staff and students of the Missouri Botanical Garden. Research projects span the range from molecular evolution of genetics, systematics, and quantitative genetics. Schaal studies plant species native to the U.S., tropical crops and their wild relatives, and Arabidopsis.

Selected Publications:

Miller, A. and B. Schaal. (2005) Domestication of a Mesoamerican cultivated fruit tree, Spondias purpurea. PNAS 102:12801-12806.

Chung, K-f, C-I Peng, S. Downie, K. Spalik, and B. Schaal. (2005) Molecular systematics of the trans-Pacific alpine genus Oreomyrrhis (Apiaceae): phylogenetic affinities and biogeographic implications. Amer. J. Bot. 92: 2054-2071.

Schaal, B. K. Olsen, L. Carvalho. (2006) Evolution, Domestication, and Agrobiodiversity in the tropical crop cassava. In Darwin’s Harvest, T. Motley, N. Zerega and H. Cross, editors, Columbia U. Press, pp 269-284.

Beck, J., I. Al-Shebaz and B. Schaal. (2006) Leavenworthia (Brassicaceae) revisited: Testing classic systematic and mating system hypotheses. Systematic Botany 31: 149-157.

Londo, J. Y-C Chiang, K-H Hung, T-Y Chiang, and B. Schaal. (2006) Phylogeography of Asian wild rice, Oryza rufipogon reveals multiple independent domestications of cultivated rice, Oryza sativa Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 103: 9578-9583.