NC State Plant Breeding Consortium
NC State Plant Breeding Consortium is interdepartmental and focuses on a full range of research programs, courses, and crops. Our faculty are extensively involved in breeding programs for field crops, horticultural crops, and trees. In addition, faculty members who provide strong support are located in the departments of Statistics, Molecular and Structural Biochemistry, Plant Biology, and Genetics.
Learn more at https://plantbreeding.ncsu.edu
Dr. Hela Chikh Rouhou: Melon Breeding Journey: From Germplasm to High-Performing Hybrids
Dilip Panthee: Breeding Tomatoes for Foliar Disease Resistance
Dr. Peter Cousins: Improving Grape and Wine Quality through Plant Breeding and Genetics
Dr. Paula Silva: Pre-breeding in Action: Unlocking Genetic Potential in Wheat and Barley
Dr. Juliana Cheboi: Harnessing Climate-Smart Solutions for Smallholder Farming in Kenya’s Drylands
Dr. Jolien Swanckaert - The art of potato innovation: breeding diploid hybrid potato
Dr. Gayle Volk: Preserving plant genetic diversity: from ideas to impact
Dr. Natalia De Leon - Plant Breeding & the Infinitesimal Model: Cause or Consequence
Dr. Ana Maria Heilman: Modernizing Public Breeding Programs with Novel Analytical Technologies
Dr. Soraya Bertioli: The wild side of peanut: origin, domestication and improvement
Dr. Rony Swennen: Going bananas with bananas: Breeding a sterile crop for African Smallholders
Dr. Patrick Cumbie: Gain vs Risk: Making genetic improvements in forest trees.
Dr. Ram Nair: Learning from Breeding Mungbeans within an International Network.
Dr. Gustavo Rodriguez: Exotic Genes to the Major Horticulture Crop
David Marshall: Forty Years of Breeding Wheat Internationally
7th Biennial NC State Plant Breeding Symposium
Hamid Khazaei: Advances in Faba Bean Breeding and Genomics
Lukas Mueller: Breedbase, the digital ecosystem for breeding
Hudson Ashrafi: Sustaining high-quality blueberries supply with breeding, genetics and genomics
Emily Bellis: Understanding crop landrace evolution to accelerate breeding for environments
Fekadu Dinssa: Traditional Vegetable R&D at WorldVeg in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)
Robert Henry: Domestication of species using molecular means
Alexandre Aono: Plant Genetic Diversity: Integrated Strategy to Understand, Exploit and Conserve
Guillaume Bauchet: Flax breeding, from past to future, adapting to a changing environment
Jean Luc Jannink: The road to genomic prediction in cassava
Samar Sheat: Identifying resistance in cassava against viruses causing cassava mosaic & brown streak
David Marshall: Seeing is believing – data visualisation in genetics and breeding