Dr. Donald James

Dr Donald James’s research focuses on utilizing sustainable biotechnologies for improving health and productivity of forests. His broad area of research interests includes molecular basis of stress adaptation in forest plant species; plant microbial interactions and metagenomics; endophyte-plant interaction in forest trees; utilizing conventional and new breeding techniques (NBTs) including marker assisted selection, genomic selection and genome editing for improvement of planted trees and medicinal species; bioprospection and synthetic biology for sustainable production of high value-secondary metabolites.