Dr. Chris Maliepaard is currently an associate professor and research group leader of a group working on ‘Quantitative Aspects of Plant Breeding’. He carries out research… more

  This Project Spotlight goes to Dr. Oscar Riera Lizarazu! He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Horticultural Sciences at Texas A&M University and also serves as… more

  Dr. Jeffrey Endelman is an Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and leads the university potato breeding program. He is a co-developer of 16 potato… more

  Dr. David Huff and his team at Pennsylvania State University were featured in an article on Golf Course Industry's website that discusses Huff's discovery of a variety of turfgrass that has the… more

  Congratulations to Dr. Amanda Hulse-Kemp on receiving the Herbert L. Rothbart Outstanding Early Career Research Scientist from the USDA! She serves on our Advisory Board for the… more

  Dr. Marcelo Mollinari is a Senior Research Scholar at North Carolina State University working with the genetics of complex polyploids. He is the creator and maintainer of the R… more

  Dr. Lindsay Clark is a Research Specialist in Life Sciences at HPCBio at the Roy J. Carver Biotechnology Center at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where she… more

  Dr. Laura Shannon, a potato breeder involved in the polyploids project, published this research article on nitrogen uptake and utilization in red potato breeding lines. You can read the full… more

  Today's Project Spotlight goes to Dr. Guilherme da Silva Pereira! Dr. da Silva Pereira is a biologist with a Ph.D. in Genetics and Plant Breeding from the University of São… more

  One of our project partners, Dr. Greg Porter at the University of Maine was featured in this article for the research he and his team are conducting on developing potato varieties using new DNA-… more