2021
- 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
