Plant Breeding Faculty

By Crop Assignment (Within Department or Group)

Crops and commodities being studied by our plant breeding faculty are listed below. In some cases, there are two or more faculty working on a crop. Links are provided to the web page of the faculty member(s) assigned. This list can also be viewed alphabetically by faculty name.

• USDA/ARS
  • Corn (Holland)
  • Soybean (Burton)
  • Soybean (Carter)
• Crop Science (College of Agriculture and Life Sciences)
• Barley (Murphy)
• Corn (Goodman)
• Cotton (Bowman)
• Cotton (Kuraparthy)
• Cultivar testing (Bowman)
• Oats (Murphy)
• Peanut (Isleib)
• Peanut (Milla-Lewis)
• Peanut (Stalker)
• Peanut (Tallury)
• Peanut (Weissinger)
• Soybean (Cardinal)
• Soybean (Dewey)
• Tobacco (Dewey)
• Tobacco (Lewis)
• Tobacco (Weissinger)
• Tobacco (Wernsman)
• Triticale (Murphy)
• Turfgrasses (Qu)
• Wheat (Murphy)
• Forestry and Environmental Resources (College of Natural Resources)
• Christmas trees (Frampton)
• Subtropical pine (Dvorak)
• Tropical pine (Hodge)
• Tree genetics (Isik)
• Tree genetics (Li)
• Loblolly pine (McKeand)
• Tree genetics (Whetten)
• Tropical pine (Zobel)
• Genetics (College of Agriculture and Life Sciences)
• Quantitative genetics (Atchley)
• Horticultural Science (College of Agriculture and Life Sciences)
• Bean (Kornegay)
• Blackberry (Ballington)
• Blackberry (Fernandez)
• Blueberry (Ballington)
• Cantaloupe / Melon (Wehner)
• Cucumber (Wehner)
• Lettuce (open)
• Luffa gourd (Wehner)
• Nursery crops (Ranney)
• Nursery crops (Werner)
• Peach / Nectarine (Werner)
• Potato (Clough)
• Potato (Yencho)
• Raspberry (Ballington)
• Raspberry (Fernandez)
• Strawberry (Ballington)
• Strawberry (Gardner)
• Strawberry (open)
• Sweetpotato (Pecota)
• Sweetpotato (Sosinski)
• Sweetpotato (Yencho)
• Tomato (Gardner)
• Watermelon (Wehner)
• Plant Pathology (College of Agriculture and Life Sciences)
• Barley (Marshall)
• Oats (Marshall)
• Sweetpotato (Pesic-VanEsbroeck)
• Wheat (Marshall)