Plant Breeding Coordinating Committee Cassava is a climate resilient staple root crop across the tropics. When developing new …
Fantastic Discoveries in Plant Breeding: Arduous Cassava Trait Tamed by Near Infrared Spectroscopy!
Category: Phenotyping & Genotyping
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 …
USDA TARS Banana and Plantain Collection
Yaleidis Mendez, Katheryn Chen See some of the national collection of Musa (banana and plantain) germplasm housed at …
Pea PI 180693 – Root Rot Resistance
Clarice J. Coyne, Marilyn L. Warburton, Gayle M. Volk This success story features PI 180693, a pea …
Wheat – Resistance to Stem Rust Race Ug99
Patrick Byrne, Gordon Cisar This success story describes the threat of stem rust race Ug99 that appeared …
Plant Breeding and Genetics Seminars
Cornell SIPS Cornell University’s School of Integrative Plant Science runs a seminar for their Plant Breeding & Genetics Section. …
Fantastic Discoveries in Plant Breeding: Intrepid Strawberry Breeders Vanquish Devastating Fusarium Wilt!
Plant Breeding Coordinating Committee This comic book style graphic tells the story of a genome-wide association study that led to …
Harnessing New Technologies to Improve Crop Resilience
Michael Gore and Leah Kucera This infographic poster (available from the Plant Breeding Coordinating Committee) provides examples of new …
Hazelnut ‘Gasaway’ – EFB Resistance
Nahla Bassil, Shawn Mehlenbacher This success story describes how the pollinizer hazelnut, ‘Gasaway’, saved the U.S. hazelnut industry. Plant …