Once a seed germinates, it is committed to one location. Plants are sessile—stuck where they started out—forced to cope with ...

Doris Wagner, the DiMaura Professor of Biology, serves as the inaugural director of the Penn Plant Adaptability and Resilience Center. Her work explores how plants adjust their growth in response to ...

Doris C. Wagner, 95, of Millersville, formerly of Lancaster, passed away peacefully Sunday, October 19, 2025. Born in Lancaster, she was the daughter of the late Francis J. and Catherine L. (Rawhauser ...

Doris Wagner (right), the DiMaura Professor of Biology in the School of Arts & Sciences, and Tian Huang, a graduate a graduate researcher in the Wagner Lab.

Key TakeawaysSome plants have a reproductive strategy at the cellular level that can adapt to changing environments. As part of that strategy ...