Zoe Migicovsky

My research focuses on two main topics: 1) understanding graft-transmissible effects of rootstocks in grapevine, by examining a transect of commercial vineyards in California across multiple years using methods such as RNA-seq, vine physiology and ionomics. 2) linking phenotype to genotype in apple to perform genetic mapping for the purpose of marker-assisted selection, making use of a collection of over 1000+ varieties of apple, located in Nova Scotia, Canada.