Faculty (by crop assignment within department)

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.

Crop Science
(College of Agriculture and Life Sciences)

• Barley (Murphy)
• Corn (Goodman)
• Corn (Holland)
• Cotton (Bowman)
• Cultivar testing (Bowman)
• Oats (Murphy)
• Peanut (Isleib)
• Peanut (Stalker)
• Peanut (Weissinger)
• Soybean (Burton)
• Soybean (Cardinal)
• Soybean (Carter)
• Soybean (Dewey)
• Tobacco (Dewey)
• Tobacco (Sisson)
• Tobacco (Weissinger)
• Tobacco (Wernsman)
• Triticale (Murphy)
• Turfgrasses (Qu)
• Wheat (Murphy)

Forestry
(College of Natural Resources)

• Christmas trees (Frampton)
• Loblolly pine (Hodge)
• Loblolly pine (Li)
• Loblolly pine (McKeand)
• Loblolly pine (Zobel)

Genetics
(College of Agriculture and Life Sciences)

• Quantitative genetics (Atchley)
• Corn (Buckler)

Horticultural Science
(College of Agriculture and Life Sciences)

• Blackberry (Ballington)
• Blueberry (Ballington)
• Blueberry (Rooks)
• Cucumber (Wehner)
• Landscape plants (Ranney)
• Luffa gourd (Wehner)
• Ornamental crops (Werner)
• Peach/Nectarine (Werner)
• Potato (Yencho)
• Raspberry (Ballington)
• Strawberry (Ballington)
• Sweetpotato (Pecota)
• Sweetpotato (Yencho)
• Tomato (Gardner)
• Watermelon (Wehner)