Our research provides fundamental knowledge and tools to understand organismal interactions in natural, perturbed, cultivated, and constructed ecosystems at the molecular and biochemical level. Approaches taken include: engineering plants, microbes, and microbial communities to improve resilience and sustainability of bioenergy crops; developing models to understand how organismal interactions drive evolution of ecosystems and predict ecosystem response to perturbations; and devising tools and new approaches to study molecular interactions in ecosystems.
Scheller is a leader in plant cell wall biosynthesis and also studies plant-microbe interactions and their influence on plant productivity. He is focused on advancing research in bioenergy and plant sciences.
