Donna Bond

Biography

  Dr. Donna Bond is an Research Fellow in Department of Biochemistry at University of Otago School of Biomedical Sciences, New Zealand. Her research focuses on on plant development, specifically understanding how plants know when to flower. By using molecular genetics and genomics she is working to determine the genes involved in flowering and how they are regulated. In particular, she is interested in how epigenetic mechanisms control expression of genes throughout plant development and in response to environmental cues. She primarily work with Medicago truncatula, the model legume species. She is also developing novel methods for plant transformation, and protocols for genome editing of crop plants. She is the author of several articles published in many reputed journals.

Research Interest

 Dr. Donna Bond's research focuses on on plant development, specifically understanding how plants know when to flower. By using molecular genetics and genomics she is working to determine the genes involved in flowering and how they are regulated. In particular, she is interested in how epigenetic mechanisms control expression of genes throughout plant development and in response to environmental cues. She primarily work with Medicago truncatula, the model legume species. She is also developing novel methods for plant transformation, and protocols for genome editing of crop plants.