Zachary Jones
ZJ
Former Crop Science - PhD
Bio
- Degree Program: M.S. / Ph.D., Crop Science
- Previous Degree: B.S., Agronomy and Soils, Auburn University
- PhD Advisors: Dr. Major Goodman; Dr. Matthew Krakowsky
- Dissertation: Identification of Useful Traditional and Gametophytic Germplasm for Maize Improvement
- Dissertation Date: 2018-01-26
- MS Advisor: Major Goodman
- Thesis: Screening of Maize Exotic Germplasm for Dominant Gametophyte Factors and Resistance to the Male-Only Variant of Gametophyte Factor 1 (Ga1-m).
- Thesis Date: 2015-02-25
Research
My research focuses on the inheritance of teosinte crossing barrier-1 (tcb-1) and tcb-1-like alleles in maize for use in selective pollination systems. My projects are: 1) Screening maize landraces for the presence of specifically dominant tcb-1 and tcb-1-like alleles. 2) Crossing accessions containing dominant alleles into adapted material and evaluating performance of derived lines. 3) Creation of double-cross hybrids containing these alleles for specialty producers.