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Glossary > Assistant Plant Breeder
Role Purpose
Performs
research and/or development in collaboration
and support of plant breeding strategies to
create profitable products.
Typical Work
Activities
- Variety
development and evaluation, including
exercising technical discretion in the
design, execution and interpretation of
experiments that contribute to project
strategies.
- Growing,
maintaining and harvesting plants (field and
greenhouse)
- Supervise
specific research projects.
- Work with
Trialing organization and define common
platform for evaluating and grading
varieties
- Growing
plants of all ages (primarily in the
greenhouse)
- Manage
seed inventories
- Develop
and follow sanitation protocols
- Manage
seed movement
- Manage all
planting, pollinating and harvest activities
- Enter and
analyze trial data
Educational
Requirements
- B.S.
in agriculture field with plant breeding
experience
- M.S.
in plant breeding preferred
Skills,
Knowledge, and Experience
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Knowledge of plant breeding, plant
biology, statistics and agriculture.
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Demonstrated knowledge of the whole
plant.
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Knowledge of plant pathology.
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Knowledge of yield testing
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Computer expertise in data handling
both in field and lab
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Familiarity with agricultural
machinery
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