Raleigh, North Carolina
June 2, 2009
Source: Plant Breeding News*,
Edition 200
Contributed by Todd Wehner, 7 May 2009
Dr. Susana Milla-Lewis, Dr. Vasu
Kuraparthy, and Dr. Jeremy Pattison have recently joined
North Carolina State University
(NCSU) in the area of plant breeding.
Dr. Vasu Kuraparthy (PhD, Kansas State University) will
be working in cotton breeding in the department of Crop Science
on the main campus in Raleigh, NC.
Dr. Susana Milla-Lewis (PhD, NC State University) will be
working in turfgrass breeding in the department of Crop Science
on the main campus in Raleigh, NC.
Dr. Jeremy Pattison (assistant professor at Virginia
Polytechnic and State Univ.) will be working in strawberry
breeding in the department of Horticultural Science at the NC
Research Campus in Kannapolis, NC.
They join a team of field plant breeders working at NCSU, now
coordinated through the plant breeding center, directed by
Charles Stuber. The 29 plant breeders at the center include Drs.
Burton, Carter, Holland, and Marshall in the USDA-ARS, Drs.
Bowman, Cardinal, Goodman, Isleib, Kuraparthy, Lewis,
Milla-Lewis, Murphy, Qu, Stalker, and Tallury in Crop Science,
Drs. Dvorak, Frampton, Hodge, Isik, McKeand, and Whetten in
Forestry, and Drs. Ballington, Fernandez, Panthee, Pattison,
Ranney, Wehner, Werner, and Yencho in Horticultural Science.
For more information, see
http://plantbreeding.ncsu.edu
*
Plant Breeding News
An Electronic
Newsletter of Applied Plant Breeding
Clair H. Hershey, Editor
Sponsored by
FAO/AGPC and Cornell University,
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