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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 […]

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 […]