Southern Vegetable Breeding Focus

Crops (Plant Breeding Faculty):

• Blackberries (Fernandez)
• Blueberries (Ashrafi, Spencer)
• Cucumber (Wehner)
• Grapes (Ashrafi)
• Luffa Sponge Gourdes (Wehner)
• Melons / Cantaloupes (Wehner)
• Muscadines (Ashrafi)
• Ornamentals, shrubs (Ranney)
• Potatoes (Yencho, Clough)
• Raspberries (Fernandez)
• Strawberries (Fernandez)
• Sweetpotatoes (Pecota)
• Sweetpotato (Yencho)
• Tomatoes (Panthee, Gardner)
• Watermelon (Wehner)

Field Days:

• Cucumber Field Day (4th Thursday in June, 1 – 5 pm, Clinton NC)
• Potato Breeding
• Sweetpotato Breeding
• Watermelon Field Day (4th Tuesday in July, 1 – 5 pm, Kinston NC)

Seed Companies with Vegetable Breeding:

• Abbott & Cobb
• East-West
• Emerald
• Green Seeds
• HM Clause
• Hollar
• Known-You
• Nunhems
• PanAmerican
• Sakata
• Seminis (Monsanto)
• Syngenta
• Technisem
• Willhite

Breeding Program Locations:

• Kilgore Hall, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
• Centennial Campus, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
• Plants for Human Health Institute, Kannapolis, NC
• Mountain Horticultural Crops Research and Extension Center, Mills River, NC