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van der Knaap Receives 2020 D.W. Brooks Faculty Award for Excellence in Research
In research funded by the National Science Foundation, van der Knaap and her team have contributed important knowledge about the history of tomato by analyzing the genomes of multiple ancestral tomato varieties. This information is providing valuable insight into how the tomato crop has evolved over the millennia and her findings have implications for the evolution of other plants.
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Long Haul Research
Three new wheat varieties released this year by the University of Georgia’s wheat breeding program are the product of more than a dozen years of work by breeders on the UGA Griffin campus.
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Zooming in from Canberra, Australia, Dr. Lagudah is a chief research scientist at CSIRO and leader of characterizing wheat rust resistance.  He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and co-recipient of the Borlaug Gene Stewardship Award.  His work focuses on identifying cereal rust resistance genes and investigating cereal genomes.  His team isolated one of the first resistance genes against the Ug99 stem rust pathogen and showed how ABC transporters can confer resistance to multiple fungal pathogens. 
Nov 05
4:00PM - 5:00PM PBGG Fall Seminar Series: Durable Disease Resistance: Learning from Wheat by Dr. Evans Lagudah https://zoom.us/j/91742903592
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UGA Plant Breeding, Genetics and Genomics News

UGA Extension peanut entomologist Mark Abney speaks about peanuts during the Midville Field Day in 2019. Faculty will give presentations online for this year's field day. CAES News
UGA Extension peanut entomologist Mark Abney speaks about peanuts during the Midville Field Day in 2019. Faculty will give presentations online for this year's field day.
UGA Southeast Research and Education Center to host annual field day online
University of Georgia faculty will share the latest research on cotton, soybeans, corn and other southeast Georgia crops during the annual Southeast Georgia Research and Education Center Field Day held online Aug. 12.
Professor Esther van der Knaap, who works at the UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Department of Horticulture and Institute of Plant Breeding, Genetics and Genomics, is part of the team that is unlocking the history of ancient tomatoes to breed a more sustainable future for modern crops. CAES News
Professor Esther van der Knaap, who works at the UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Department of Horticulture and Institute of Plant Breeding, Genetics and Genomics, is part of the team that is unlocking the history of ancient tomatoes to breed a more sustainable future for modern crops.
Broad sequencing of tomato genomes will help geneticists breed better varieties
New technology has led to a greater understanding of how gene placement within the tomato genome influences gene expression and, therefore, the characteristics of the resulting plant’s fruit, a discovery that is important for breeders and producers.
Chandler M. Levinson, a doctoral candidate studying plant breeding, genetics and genomics at the University of Georgia Tifton campus, has been named a 2020 Borlaug Graduate Scholar by the National Association of Plant Breeders (NAPB). CAES News
Chandler M. Levinson, a doctoral candidate studying plant breeding, genetics and genomics at the University of Georgia Tifton campus, has been named a 2020 Borlaug Graduate Scholar by the National Association of Plant Breeders (NAPB).
UGA doctoral candidate named Borlaug Scholar
Chandler M. Levinson, a doctoral candidate studying plant breeding, genetics and genomics at the University of Georgia Tifton campus, has been named a 2020 Borlaug Graduate Scholar by the National Association of Plant Breeders (NAPB).
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