Plant Breeding Coordinating Committee Wheat stem sawfly (WSS) is considered one of the greatest threats to wheat production …
Incredible Feats of Plant Breeding: Wheat Stem Sawfly Stymied by Solid Stemmed Wheat!
Category: Cultivar Stories
Tepary Bean (Phaseolus acutifolius)
Katheryn Chen This chapter provides an overview of tepary bean, a pulse crop closely related to common …
Rice ‘Tiara’ – High in Antioxidants
Trevis D. Huggins and Anna M. McClung This chapter describes the development of ‘Tiara’, a black rice …
Rice ‘Jojutla’ – Parboiling Quality
Trevis D. Huggins and Anna M. McClung This chapter describes ‘Jojutla’, a rice cultivar that produces a …
Rice – Blast Resistance Genes
Yulin Jia, Melissa H. Jia, and Jeremy Edwards This chapter describes the research to develop genetic markers …
Cacao TARS Germplasm – High Yielding
Ricardo Goenaga This chapter describes a large-scale experiment at the USDA-ARS Tropical Agriculture Research Station (TARS) that …
Tepary Bean ‘USDA Fortuna’ – High Yielding, Disease Resistant
Timothy Porch This chapter describes the release of ‘USDA Fortuna’, a high yielding tepary bean with enhanced …
Meet the Plants at the Desert Legume Program
Matthew Johnson Matthew Johnson, curator of the Desert Legume Program (DELEP) at the University of Arizona, discusses some …
This new variety of apple has a $10 million hype machine behind it — and farmers are hoping it can save Washington’s apple industry
Mark Abadi, Marisa Palmer This Business Insider article describes the release of Cosmic Crisp, a sweet and crisp …
Apple ‘Robusta 5’ – Resilient Rootstock
Gennaro Fazio, Terence Robinson This success story features the Cornell University and USDA apple rootstock breeding program …