Friends of Allen Centennial 2023 Winter Series, with Al Kovaleski, Assistant Professor, Hort. Department, UW-Madison

Al Kovalesky studies the physiological processes that determine how plants control cold hardiness and dormancy during the winter and how that leads to budbreak and flowering in spring. This knowledge can then be used to inform models predicting phenology to understand how plants can survive in different environments or future climates. His work explores the question: Can we predict adaptation of a plant to an environment based on winter responses?