In episode #27 of Minnesota CropCast, David Nicolai and Seth Naeve sit down with Jim Anderson from the Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics at the University of Minnesota.  Jim is the Spring Wheat Breeder at the UofMN and has released at least 19 cultivars and has been co-developer of 8 others.  Jim is well known in all of the small grains communities.  He speaks regularly with farmers and commodity organizations, and he is a leader in the wheat breeding community.  Jim is a pioneer in breeding technology with research focused on identifying genes underlying economically important traits and implementing marker-assisted and genomic selection for cultivar and germplasm development.  He also leads plant improvement programs focusing on intermediate wheatgrass (Kernza®), and field pennycress.  Jim is also an extremely active advisor for graduate and undergraduate students and teaches in the classroom.  Please join Dave and Seth for a conversation about breeding for established and developing crops for Minnesota on this week’s CropCast.

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