Zara York is a Ph.D student in Dr. Kate Evans’s pome fruit breeding program at Washington State University Tree Fruit Research and Extension Center in Wenatchee, WA. She was also a Borlaug Scholar for this year’s meeting of the National Association of Plant Breeders (NAPB) which took place last week. We catch up with her […]

We chat with Ammani Kyanum at the National Association of Plant Breeders virtual meeting about her sorghum research and something called trifluoromethanesulfonamide, which despite being really hard to pronounce is kind of a big deal.

As the 2020 meeting of the National Association of Plant Breeders wraps up today, we chat with David Bubeck of Corteva Agriscience  & Rich Pratt of New Mexico State University about the importance of public-private partnerships in the future of the NAPB and the Plant Breeding Coordinating Committee.

As Day 3 of the National Association of Plant Breeders annual meeting winds down, we talk with Borlaug Scholars William Singer and Clayton Carley about the world of soybeans.

As Day 3 of the National Association of Plant Breeders annual meeting gets underway, we chat with four Borlaug Scholars all working in many different crops, but with a focus on wheat.

The 2020 meeting of the National Association of Plant Breeders continues! Borlaug Scholar Natalie Kaiser is a Ph.D candidate in the Potato Breeding and Genetics Program at Michigan State University. She is employing molecular and genomic tools to understand the genetic architecture of host plant insect resistance and to develop Colorado potato beetle (CPB) resistant […]

The second day of the 2020 National Association of Plant Breeders virtual meeting kicks off shortly. We sit down with this year’s award winners to talk about their breeding accomplishments and what drives them to success in their industry. Winning this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award is Wayne Hanna of the University of Georgia, an internationally […]

The 2020 virtual meeting of the National Association of Plant Breeders began today. We sit down with Borlaug Scholar David Tork to talk about the intricacies of modern flax breeding. Tork is a second-year MS student at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. After gaining initial plant breeding experience as an intern at Dow AgroSciences (now […]

The 2020 virtual annual meeting of the National Association of Plant Breeders (NAPB) begins today! In our ongoing series of podcasts being released this week, we talk to Borlaug Scholar Chandler Levinson — the only one of this year’s scholars whose speciality is peanuts. Levinson is a Ph.D student studying plant breeding, genetics, and genomics under […]

In our new podcast, Alex Martin sits down to talk with Michael Keller about the state of the International Seed Federation during the COVID-19 crisis. In part two of this podcast, Keller discusses a major concern that ISF members are having: whether or not international borders will shut and slow the movement of seed across […]