An international team of researchers led by UC Davis plant biologist Siobhan Brady have found genes that control several key aspects of tomato growth and that could function to protect plants from environmental stressors. Further, they demonstrated that these genes have homologs in rice and Arabidopsis. The researchers, including PABGAP alumna and current UC Davis graduate student Bryshal Moore, published this work in the journal Cell, with a UC Davis news highlight too. Bryshal contributed to the research as part of her PABGAP summer research in the Brady lab.