SeedWorld Podcast

When diving into the vegetable and flower seed sector, what’s one thing you really need to have to succeed? Well, according to Robb Bauman, you need to have a lot of patience ready to go. With trends constantly changing, unexpected events and long wait times for breeding, if you dive into the vegetable seed business […]

When working on importing, exporting or even producing seed outside of the U.S., phytosanitary concerns can pop up. Keeping up-to-date on what other regulatory bodies are concerned with in terms of phytosanitary concerns can help keep businesses and the U.S. ahead of the curve. According to Ric Dunkle, there’s a few things to be aware […]

There’s always going to be a next, big thing in vegetables. But where do the trends lie? In flavor? In shape? In color? For Nathan Pumplin, while trends are wonderful to fall into, he dreams of one thing: a more nutritious and better-tasting tomato. But, it just so happens that better tasting, more nutritious tomato […]

Florida needs alfalfa, but right now can’t really grow it. Anju Biswas is out to change that. Biswas is a Ph.D candidate in the agronomy department at the University of Florida. She works on on alfalfa breeding using phenomics and genomics selection and crop modeling to develop heat-stress tolerant alfalfa cultivars. She has obtained a […]

Did you know waxy sorghum can weather in the field faster than its non-waxy counterpart? Turns out that might not be true after all. Mitchell Kent grew up in central Illinois where he received a bachelor’s degree in crop science from the University of Illinois. Mitchell then moved to Texas where he received a master’s […]

Seed and its intellectual property protection regulations have been put under the microscope — but do IP regulations really hinder the U.S. economy? The USDA announced on May 11 that they were opening a comment period as a result of President Biden’s Executive Order on “Promoting Competition in the American Economy,” to examine competition issues […]

Mary Jane Espina is a Ph.D candidate in applied plant sciences at the University of Minnesota. Her research focuses on identifying the genetic basis underlying the resistance to iron deficiency chlorosis in soybean. Originally from the Philippines, she also has a fascination with a vegetable called jute mallow, a staple for millions. She sits down […]

According to Mental Health America, just prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, 19.86% of adults experienced a mental illness — that is the equivalent of nearly 50 million Americans. Unfortunately, over half of adults with a mental illness do not receive treatments, which totals to over 27 million adults in the U.S. untreated for a mental illness. […]

The National Association of Plant Breeders (NAPB) Private Sector Plant Breeding Award, first established in 2020, recognizes an individual whose accomplishments as ascientist in the private sector have had extraordinary impact in the field of plant breeding in areas such as germplasm development, cultivar release, technological innovation, andleadership. The 2020 recipient is Dr. Thomas C. […]

The virtual meeting of the National Association of Plant Breeders took place last week. In our final podcast from the proceedings we talk with Borlaug Scholar Tia Dunbar about her rice research. Dunbar is obtaining her MS degree in Plant Breeding at Texas A&M University in College Station, TX. Originally hailing from the San Francisco […]