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College of Agriculture and Life Sciences 
Department of Crop and Soil Sciences

Wheat

USDA-ARS breaks ground on the new Plant Improvement Facility at NC State's Lake Wheeler Road Field Laboratory.

Sep 13, 2023

USDA-ARS Breaks Ground on New Plant Improvement Facility on NC State University Campus

USDA-ARS breaks ground on a state-of-the-art plant improvement facility housing 30-40 experts from ARS and NC State who will conduct research on maize, soybean, wheat, cotton and peanuts. 
SunShow variety plots from the SunGrains breeding collective

Mar 6, 2023

SunGrains Collective Sets The Model For Collaborative Plant Breeding

Small grains breeder Paul Murphy is a founding member of a multi-university breeding program that has become the model for larger producing regions and even other crops.  
Archie Griffin on his farm

Oct 28, 2020

Alumni Spotlight: Archie Griffin Plans Farm of the Future

What keeps Archie Griffin up at night? More often than not, it’s a foreboding sense that he may one day lose the farm that his grandfather started building in the 1960s. 

Feb 23, 2018

Eastern Regional Small Grains Genotyping Laboratory Increases Returns on Wheat Breeders’ Investment

“It’s revolutionizing wheat breeding in the public sector in the south—well, everywhere. This lab is revolutionizing public wheat breeding in the south and eastern United States.”