- David Braun: Carbon partitioning in plants
- Heike Bücking: Beneficial plant-microbe interactions
- Christine Elsik: Computational biology and bioinformatics
- Walter Gassmann: Host-pathogen interactions and plant disease resistance
- David Mendoza-Cózatl: Molecular mechanisms of trace and heavy metal uptake and transport in plants
- Blake Meyers: Small RNA evolution in plants and their role in stress responses
- Ron Mittler: Reactive oxygen species and omics responses to abiotic stress
- Henry Nguyen: Abiotic stress adaptation and tolerance in soybeans
- Soyon Park: Plant-Microbiome interactions and plant-plant Interactions
- James Schoelz: Genetic factors that determine the pathogenicity of plant viruses
- Gary Stacey: Molecular biology of symbiotic nitrogen-fixation, soybean genomics and biotechnology, plant pathology
- Minviluz (Bing) Stacey: Molecular mechanisms and gene editing of plant architecture and seed development
- Bing Yang: Molecular biology of disease susceptibility in plants and genome editing technologies for crop improvements