B. Todd Campbell. The National Plant Germplasm System Cotton Collection includes critical genetic diversity, including roughly 2,500 landraces. …
NPGS Germplasm Provides Valuable Genetic Variation for Cotton Breeding
Category: eBook Chapters
NPGS Hop Germplasm Delivers Novel Resistance to Powdery Mildew
Kayla R. Altendorf, David H. Gent, Nahla V. Bassil. Powdery mildew is one of the most …
Bread Wheat – FHB Resistance
George Fedak, Patrick Byrne. Wheat germplasm resistant to Fusarium head blight (FHB) has been developed by transferring a …
NPGS Germplasm Provides U.S. Lettuce Crop with Disease Resistance
Ivan Simko. USDA-ARS researchers identified critical sources of resistance to multiple races of Bacterial Leaf Spot …
Cotton ‘U1’ – FOV4 Resistance
Don C. Jones. This success story describes how a collaboration formed to address the spreading threat of Fusarium …
Blackberry ‘Hillquist’ – Primocane Fruiting
Alexander Silva, Margaret Worthington, Michael A. Hardigan, and Nahla V. Bassil. This success story discusses how scientists mapped …
NPGS Blackberries – Prickleless Canes
Brian Crawford, Margaret Worthington, and Nahla V. Bassil. This success story describes how an international research team, led …
Banana Shoot Tip Cryopreservation (Droplet Vitrification)
Dianne Skogerboe, Katheryn Chen, Maria Jenderek. The purpose of this chapter is to demonstrate the process of banana …
Potato Shoot Tip Cryopreservation (Droplet Vitrification)
Gayle M. Volk, Bradford D. Hall, Adam Henk, John Bamberg, Katheryn Chen. The purpose of this chapter is …
‘SAF2’ Mint Family – Genetic Research
Kelly J. Vining, Bernd Markus Lange, Nahla V. Bassil, and Carolyn Scagel. NPGS germplasm powers 20 years of …