Ryan Traband

GFI Fellow - Class of 2021

Graduate student, botany and plant sciences
UC Riverside

DESCRIPTION

2021-22 GFI student fellow

Ryan will start an integrated breeding project in the R’Garden collaborating with undergraduate volunteers to create drought tolerant and shade tolerant varieties of tomatoes. This project will involve undergraduate students through the help of the R’Garden a community garden on campus located near parking Lot 30. Instead of renting space on any of the gated and locked research sites available Ryan wishes to create an opportunity for undergraduate students to be part of a larger project that is both accessible and collaborative by utilizing a small portion of space in the R’Garden. https://rgarden.ucr.edu/