Anthony Baniaga

I am interested in the creative role of hybridization and polyploidy towards the generation and maintenance of plant diversity. My postdoc project was to work on understanding the evolutionary history of the Viburnum dentatum species complex in eastern North America, and how polyploidy has led to anatomical and physiological diversity in the group. I also maintain active research interests in Selaginella systematics, desiccation tolerance, genome size evolution, and conservation biology.