Eco- and Chemotypes of Arabidopsis thaliana and its relatives: What were and what are the mainsprings of the evolution of its insect resistance?

We seek to understand the evolutionary forces which influence genetic variation of ecologically important traits within and among species. Following our earlier functional genomics studies in the model organism Arabidopsis thaliana, evolutionary inquiries are now focused on wild, perennial species of Arabidopsis and Boechera growing in natural populations in Europe and North America.