
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