Cultivar and Germplasm Releases

Plant breeders at NC State have released many cultivars and breeding lines for use by the public. The releases are from an array of different crop species of importance to growers in North Carolina and other regions of the U.S. and the world.

Crop Science (College of Agriculture and Life Sciences)

• Barley (Murphy)
• Corn (Goodman)
• Corn (Holland)
• Cotton (Kuraparthy)
• Oats (Murphy)
• Peanut (Dunne)
• Soybeans (Fallen)
• Soybeans (Mian)
• Tobacco (Lewis)
• Triticale (Murphy)
• Turfgrasses (Milla-Lewis)
• Wheat (Murphy)

Forestry (College of Natural Resources)

• Christmas trees (Justin Whitehill)
• Loblolly pine (Acosta)
• Loblolly pine (Hodge)
• Loblolly pine (Isik)
• Loblolly pine (Li)
• Loblolly pine (Payne)

Horticultural Science (College of Agriculture and Life Sciences)

• Blackberries (Fernandez)
• Blueberries (Ashrafi, Spencer)
• Cucumbers (Wehner)
• Grapes (Ashrafi)
• Luffa Gourdes (Wehner)
• Melon / Cantaloupes (Wehner)
• Muscadines (Ashrafi)
• Ornamentals, shrubs (Ranney)
• Potatoes (Yencho, Clough)
• Raspberries (Fernandez)
• Strawberries (Fernandez)
• Sweetpotatoes (Yencho, Pecota)
• Tomatoes (Panthee, Gardner)
• Watermelons (Wehner)