Plant Breeding Center

NC State University

The plant breeding center at North Carolina State University has one of the largest plant breeding programs in the U.S. The center is interdepartmental, and involves a full range of research programs, courses, and crops. Plant breeders at NC State are based in different colleges (Natural Resources, and Agriculture and Life Sciences), and departments (including Crop Science, Emtomology, Forestry, Genetics, Horticultural Science, and Plant Pathology), as well as the USDA-ARS.

Dr. Charles Stuber is the first director of the Plant Breeding Center. Dr. Stuber reports to Dr. Steven Leath. Initial efforts have been aimed at planning the new center, and raising funds for graduate student fellowships.

• Plant Breeding Center
  • Plant breeding faculty
  • Plant breeding fellowships
  • Plant breeding cultivar and germplasm releases
• Other information
  • Breeder's release board (NC State cultivar release procedures)
  • Databases for plant breeding use
  • Survey: Plant breeding student training
  • Our short address is http://plantbreeding.ncsu.edu/
• Other useful websites
  • Federal Plant Breeding coordinating committee
  • Global Plant Breeding website