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: Pests & Pathogens
Rice – Blast Resistance Genes
Yulin Jia, Melissa H. Jia, and Jeremy Edwards This chapter describes the research to develop genetic markers …
Citrus – California’s Second Gold Rush
A Growing Passion This 26-minute episode explores California’s citrus industry. Nan Sterman visits a family-run orchard in Pauma …
New Lettuce Breeding Lines Show Strong Resistance to Major Pests and Diseases
Seed World USDA-ARS study reveals advanced green leaf, red leaf and romaine lettuce varieties that combat leafminer, corky …
Apple ‘Robusta 5’ – Resilient Rootstock
Gennaro Fazio, Terence Robinson This success story features the Cornell University and USDA apple rootstock breeding program …
Lettuce NPGS Germplasm – Verticillium Wilt Resistance
Barbara C. Hellier, Alex M. Cornwall, Marilyn L. Warburton This success story describes how several accession of …
Peanut NPGS Germplasm – Smut Resistance
Kelly Chamberlin, Shyam Tallury, Gayle Volk This success story describes a multi-year study in which 208 peanut …
Alfalfa NPGS Germplasm – Leafhopper Resistance
Brian M. Irish, E. Charles Brummer, Deborah Samac This success story describes how wild alfalfa in the …
Cryotherapy Using Shoot Tip Cryopreservation
Jean Carlos Bettoni, Gayle Volk This chapter provides an overview of cryotherapy, a technology that uses shoot …
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 …