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Ty Seely with peanuts in greenhouse

Sep 5, 2023

Ty Seely: Speedy Peanut Breeding

Ty Seely is a master’s student studying peanut breeding under the direction of Assistant Professor Jeff Dunne in the Department of Crop and Soil Sciences at North Carolina State University. Seely recently attended the 2023 American Society for Horticultural Science Annual Conference, where he was awarded second place out of 45 students for the Controlled…
peanuts harvested from field

Mar 17, 2023

Spring 2023 International Plant Breeding Seminar Series

NC State Plant Breeding Consortium is pleased to announce its fifth virtual seminar series in International Plant Breeding, consisting of six seminars beginning March 30th - May 4th on Thursdays from 11:00 am to 12:00 pm EST.

Heeduk Oh with blueberries in field

Mar 13, 2023

Heeduk Oh: Improving Shelf-life Fruit Quality in Blueberry

Heeduk Oh is a doctoral student that researches how to improve shelf-life fruit quality in blueberries as part of a national team to strengthen Vaccinium industry

Sun Show grains test plots

Mar 8, 2023

SunGrains Collective Sets The Model For Collaborative Plant Breeding

Small grains breeder Paul Murphy is a founding member of a multi-university breeding program that has become the model for larger producing regions and even other crops
Anju Pandey

Jan 27, 2023

Anju Pandey: Enhancing Tomatoes for a Better Tomorrow

Anju Pandey is a doctoral student who researches tomato disease resistance breeding, a process by which tomatoes are selected based on their resistance to certain diseases.
Irene Palmer

Jan 12, 2023

Plant Breeding Consortium Graduate Student Fellowship Program

The Plant Breeding Consortium Graduate Fellows (PBC-GF) Program provides financial support and recognition for future plant breeders while pursuing research and training leading toward Master of Science or Doctoral degrees.
Peanut crosses in greenhouse

Nov 9, 2022

Breeding Peanut 3.0

Building on years of NC State research, peanut breeder Jeff Dunne is using wild species genetics to breed disease-resistant varieties in a crop with an inherent fault.
Modesta Abugu in a sweetpotato field

Oct 10, 2022

Modesta Abugu: Improving Sweetpotato Flavor for Nutrition Security

Ph.D. student Modesta Abugu is researching flavor compounds in sweetpotatoes with a goal of increasing consumption and improving global nutrition security.
Pokeweed

Oct 6, 2022

Fall 2022 International Plant Breeding Seminar Series

NC State Plant Breeding Consortium is pleased to announce its fourth virtual seminar series in International Plant Breeding, consisting of six seminars beginning October 6 through November 10, 2022 on Thursdays from 11:00 am to 12:00 pm EST.

Mar 2, 2022

Poster Presentation Winners from Sixth Biennial Plant Breeding Symposium

Hello everyone, I am excited to announce the winners of the poster competition! In third place, Anna Yaschenko of NC State University, for her poster “Leveraging synthetic promoters to control gene expression.” In second place, Cassondra Newman of NC State University, for her poster “De Novo Virginia-Type Peanut Genome Assembly and Variant Discovery Provide the Foundation…