Katheryn Chen This chapter provides an overview of tepary bean, a pulse crop closely related to common …
Tepary Bean (Phaseolus acutifolius)
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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 …
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 …
Pea PI 180693 – Root Rot Resistance
Clarice J. Coyne, Marilyn L. Warburton, Gayle M. Volk This success story features PI 180693, a pea …
Peanut NPGS Germplasm – Smut Resistance
Kelly Chamberlin, Shyam Tallury, Gayle Volk This success story describes a multi-year study in which 208 peanut …