2024
- Akshaya Biswal
IPBGG Membership Seminar: Fast Forward Peanut Breeding for Disease Resistance and Seed Quality
- John Bagwell
Deciphering the Genetics of Hessian Fly, Leaf Rust, and Stripe Rust Resistance in Wheat in the Southeastern US (Dissertation Defense)
- Rachel Rackers
MiRNA Ninjas: Overlooked Players to Increase Sorghum Biofuel Production
- Kelly Goode
From Roots to Resilience: Plant Breeding for Nematode Resistance
- Nathaniel Burner
Come Fly With Me: Drone-based Estimation of Soybean Maturity
- Shreena Pradhan
Paint Your Plate Purple
- Amol Nankar
Vegetable Breeding – Breeding Pipeline Development to Variety Release
- Jon Cody
Developing tools for improving the process of plant transformation and gene editing
- Andrew Ogden
Breeding Horticultural Crops for Controlled Environment Agriculture: A New Horizon
2023
- Mylee Mobley
Host Plant Resistance: Cowpea vs. Curculio
- Katie Toomey
Rooting Against the Odds: A Success Story from African Fields
- Samantha Wan
Fiber Quality Improvement of Upland cotton (Gossypium Hirsutum L.) through Interspecific Introgression
- Razi Ibrahim
Developing 2,4-D resistant white clover through mutation breeding and recurrent selection
- Gema Nugraha
Rediscovering a Legacy: Finding Adaptability in Lost Peanut
- Dr. Andrew Wiersma
Plant Breeder, Edible Bean Breeding and Genetics at Archer Daniels Midland
- Guarab Bhattarai
Genetic Analysis of Nut Shape and Scab Resistance in Pecan
- Daniel Matusinec
Bringing together peanut wild relatives to combat stem rot
- Angel Brooks
My Relationship with Renewable Energy and Switchgrass
- Hallie Wright
Full Blast: Overcoming Finger Millet’s Biggest Villain
- Nathaniel Burner
Can Breeding End the War on Tobacco?
- Brandon Tonnis
Peanut Oil Treasure Hunt: Breeding for an Overlooked Peanut Trait
- Saptarshi Mondal
Can Zoysiagrass Beat Salts?
- Namrata Maharjan
Spotting resistance in wild peanut relatives
- Samikshya Rijal
Curiouser and Curiouser About Citrus
- Holly W. Presley
Fortifying the Cereal Aisle
- Razi Ibrahim
Grow Your Own Nitrogen: Improving Seed Yield of White Clover
- Sydney Webb
A Champion in the Making? Improving Peanut's Resistance to Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus
- Antonio Jose Monforte
Genetic basis of fruit morphology and domestication in melon
- Brandon Tonnis
Open Sesame: Creating a Better Password for an Ancient Oilseed
- Samantha Surber
Return of the Forest's Gentle Giant
- Jordan Knapp-Wilson
James (Oglethorpe) and the Giant Peach: A Tale of How Georgia Became the Peach State
- Kendall Lee
Characterization of the Tall Fescue Endophyte
- Manoj Sapkota
Elucidating the genetic basis of flavor volatiles in tomato
- Mark Miller
Predictive breeding to accelerate genetic gain in soybean
- Sam McDonald
Genetic mapping of frogeye leaf spot resistance and breeding for improved seed composition in soybean
- Harshita Saxena
Who’s eating all the chickpeas?
- Samantha Wan
A Dip into Upland Cotton's Secondary Gene Pool for Fiber Quality Improvement
- Brody Deaton
From Row Cropping to Turfgrass, Potential Uses and Impacts of Dinitroaniline Herbicide Resistance
- Ben Culver
Watch out for Ramularia: an emerging cotton leaf disease
- Daniel Matusinec
Bringing Cranberries to the Thanksgiving Table
- Yongjun Yue
Legends, Hunters, and Thieves: The Stories Behind Our Backyard Landscaping
2022
- Vinavi Lakshman
CRISPRing: Gene Editing to Accelerate Plant Breeding
- Amanda Webb
A Seedy Story - Sterility in Bermudagrass Golf Greens
- Austin Hart
Plant Aromatics: For More Than Just the Birds and Bees
- Holly Wright Presley
A Royal Homecoming - Improving Low pH and Aluminum Tolerance in Alfalfa for the Southeast
- Zachary Fleming
Blossom End Rot: A Multi-Species Menace
- Samikshya Rijal
Watermelon's Wild Friends - Introgressing Important Traits in a Favorite Fruit
- Brianna Cheekc
An Analysis of the Tools for Mitigation of Aflatoxin Production in Peanut
- John Bagwell
The Genetic Plan to Save our Bread
- Kendall Lee
We Have History: The Coevolution of Asexual Epichloe Endophytes and Cool-Season Grasses
- Natacha Namphengsone
The Role of OFPs and TRMs in Organogenesis
- Sefa Ayten
Genome Analysis of the Medicinal Plant Teucrium marum (Lamiaceae)
- Alexandra Ostezan
Genetic Improvement of Soybean for Resistance to Soybean Cyst Nematode
- Sam McDonald
Who Let the Frogs Out? Breeding Soybean to Prevent the Next Frogeye Leaf Spot Outbreak
- Ethan Menke
Advancing Soybean Breeding Through Disease Resistance, Climate Resilience, and High-Throughput Phenotyping
- Gaurab Bhattarai
PBGG Spring Student Seminar: An Uncovered Gem of the South: the Muscadines
- Edward Beasley
Navigating Native Traits of Cotton Responsible for Nematode Resistance
- Madhav Subedi
Quinoa: South America's Gift to Your Kitchen
- Alexandra Ostezan
Combatting Soybean Cyst Nematode: Helping Soybeans in the Fight Against Yield Loss
- Manoj Sapkota
Language of Plants: Understanding the Plant Vocabulary and its Possible Implications in Crop Breeding
- Samuele Lamon
Italian Chicory: Experiment with Bitterness and Colors in your Salads
2021
- Dung Tran
Genetic mapping of QTL for and exploring the interaction of root microbiome with soybean cyst nematode resistance
- Isabel Vales
Development of Climate-change-ready Potato Varieties to Overcome Heat Stress
- Matthew Clark
Modern Grape Breeding, using DNA Markers to Enrich the Selection Process
- Caleb Warrington
Sesame: Modernizing an Ancient Oilseed
- Nino Brown
Powerful Peanuts - Leveraging Technology for Peanut Cultivar Development Research
- Lovepreet Singh Chahal
Evaluation of Phylogenetically Distant BABY BOOM Genes for their Potential to Induce Parthenogenesis
- Chandler Levinson
Characterization of Allotetraploids Cross-Compatible to Cultivated Peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.)
- Samuele Lamon
Meiosis as a Causal Mechanism for Genome Variation
- Kendall Lee
The Fungus That Feeds America
- Vinavi Lakshman
Drink Tea and Be Merry: How Tea Keeps Getting Better
- John Bagwell
The Genetic Tug of War to Keep Corn Safe
- Emile Barnes
Breeding Hot Peppers and Why We Love Them
- Qian Feng
How to Make Tomatoes Taste Better
- Ed Beasley
Get Caught with Your Plants Down? Explaining the Science Behind Disease Resistance in Plants
- Evan McCoy
Lucha for Lunch: Chemical Warfare on Your Dinner Plate
2018
- Monica Herrero-Huerta
Soybean High Throughput Phenotyping from UAS-based Visible and Multispectral Imagery
- Liz Prenger
Genetic improvement of Soybean Seed Composition by Liz Prenger
- Connor Ryan
Genetic Diversity and Boxwood Blight Susceptibility of Sarcococca (Sweet Box)
- Laxman Adhikari
Dissecting the Genetic Basis of Various Adaptation Traits in Alfalfa Using QTL Mapping by Laxman Adhikari
- Alexandra Oztecan
The Secret Ingredient to a More Perfect Meal: Soybean Seed Composition
- Sakshi Pathania
Speed Breeding: Fruits on the Fastrack
- Manoj Sapkota
How Tomatoes Got Bland and the Tastier Ones on the Way
- Rion Mooneyham
Improving the Fountain of Youth: Breeding Centella asiatica
- Ethan Menke
Not an Asteroid But Just as Fast: Soybean Sudden Death Syndrome and Breeding for Resistance
- Carmen Kraus
Getting in Shape: Fruits and the Genes that Shape Them
- Thomas Gotilla
The Red Scare: Searching for Resistance to the Ug99 Lineage of Wheat Stem Rust
- Benjamin Lopez
Why Use Fungicides? Use Genetics: the Story of Wheat and Stripe Rust
- Nathan Tatiano
Pick & Pack a Pepper: People, Their Plants, and the Importance of Shape
- Rasyidah Mohamad Razar
Manipulation of Winter Dormancy Duration: Strategy for High Biomass Yield in Switchgrass
- Alexis Ramos
Mining QTL for Fruit Weight Quality Traits in Uncharacterized Tomato Germplasm
- Lucky Paudel
Refining of the egusi locus and mapping of seed coat color genes in watermelon
- Ben Stewart-Brown
Genetic and Genomic Analyses for Improvement of Soybean Yield
- Tofazzal Islam, Fulbright Visiting Scholar, West Virginia University
Novel genomic approaches for detection and mitigation of worrisome wheat blast in South Asia
- Ana Claudia Araujo
Novel genomic approaches for detection and mitigation of worrisome wheat blast in South Asia
- Clint Steketee, University of Georgia
Discovery of Germplasm and Genomic Regions to Improve Soybean Drought Tolerance
- Joann Conner, University of Georgia
Apomixis in crops: An update on progress
- Carolina Chavarro, University of Georgia
Whole genome re-sequencing of cultivated peanut to enable genetic and genomic resources for seed quality improvement
- Shyam Tallury, USDA-ARS
National Peanut Collection: Maintenance and Characterization
- Shreya Shanbhag
CSI - Cotton Screening Inquisition: The Case of the Target Spot
- Chandler Levinson
The Wild Side of Peanut
- Laxman Adhikari
Overcoming cold stress: genetic improvement of alfalfa for cold tolerance
- Carolina Ballén Taborda
When close species get together: Homeologous chromosome exchange in the allopolyploid, peanut
- Davis Gimode
Breed Craft: A conversation on the origin of food
- Suraj Sapkota
Is bread wheat making you sick? The undesirable story of the most desired food, & how genetics will save it
- Yasin Topcu
Mystery in the tomato patch: Solving blossom-end rot
- Lucky Paudel
Eat, don't spit! Modernizing watermelon seeds
- Elizabeth Prenger
Mutagenesis and plant breeding: A weapon of mass production
- Connor Ryan
Not just a pretty flower: Hydrangea breeding in the 21st century
2017
- Kevin Folta, University of Florida
Talking about biotechnology to a concerned public
- Brian Nadon, University of Georgia
Progress and pitfalls on the path toward a pan-genome paradigm
- Suraj Sapkota, University of Georgia
Tomorrow's bread: breeding wheat for leaf & stripe rust resistance in the SE US
- Davis Gimode, University of Georgia
Of models and traits: Is genomic selection the next top diva for peanut breeding?
- Chandler Maddox, University of Georgia
Breeding an allergen-reduced peanut: Progress and obstacles
- Luellen Swayzer, University of Georgia
Can the grass always be greener? The use of molecular tools in turfgrass breeding
- Leigh Ann Fall, University of Georgia
Fusarium wilt resistance in watermelon: modern selection tools for an age-old problem
- Rasyidah Mohamad Razar, University of Georgia
Escaping cold seasons: how summer grasses survive the winter
- Matthew Johnson, University of Georgia
Bridging the genetic gap in crops around the world
- Eric Antepenko, University of Georgia
The search for nematode resistance in peanut: A matter of introgression
- Silas Childs, University of Georgia
Protecting crops against new invaders: The Asian soybean rust story
- Winnie Gimode, University of Georgia
A flower affair: Implications of flowering time for successful fruit set in watermelon
- Alicia Massa, USDA/ARS National Peanut Research Laboratory
Generating Genetic and Genomic Resources to Advance Breeding Efforts
- Jude Grosser, Professor, Plant Cell Genetics, University of Florida
Biotechnology Facilitated Citrus Scion & Rootstock Breeding
- Dung Thuy Tran
Evaluation of soybean germplasm and identification of quantitative trait loci conferring soybean cyst nematode resistance
- Evan McCoy
Hidden in plain sight: untangling an unexpected pyramid of caterpillar resistance QTLs
- Jacob William Hoyle
An Expanded Toolkit for Genome Editing
- Leigh Ann Fall
Marker development for Fusarium wilt race 1 resistance and quantitative trait loci (QTL) mapping of fruit traits in watermelon