Ph.D. student April Wallace (Life Sciences) has been awarded a Graduate Student Research Award from the Botanical Society of America for her proposal, "Exploring shikimate pathway disruption as a possible intrinsic isolating barrier in trees." This $1,500 award will be used to determine if disruption of a key biochemical pathway in plants is responsible for low survivorship and fertility of inter-varietal hybrids of the landscape-dominant tree, Metrosideros polymorpha, on Hawaii Island (advisor: Elizabeth Stacy).
