Professor of Crop Science, is responsible for peanut cultivar development for North Carolina. His research interests include introgression of unadapted germplasm into adapted populations and development of disease and insect resistant germplasm. He has traveled extensively in Africa.
North Carolina Peanut Varieties
Publications
- Linkage Mapping and Genome-Wide Association Study Identified Two Peanut Late Leaf Spot Resistance Loci, <i>PLLSR</i>-1 and <i>PLLSR</i>-2, Using Nested Association Mapping, PHYTOPATHOLOGY (2024)
- Registration of 'Comrade' peanut, JOURNAL OF PLANT REGISTRATIONS (2022)
- Registration of two peanut recombinant inbred lines (TifGP-5 and TifGP-6) resistant to late leaf spot disease, JOURNAL OF PLANT REGISTRATIONS (2022)
- Variabilities in symbiotic nitrogen fixation and carbon isotope discrimination among peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) genotypes under drought stress, JOURNAL OF AGRONOMY AND CROP SCIENCE (2022)
- Mapping quantitative trait loci (QTLs) and estimating the epistasis controlling stem rot resistance in cultivated peanut (Arachis hypogaea), THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS (2020)
- Pod and Seed Trait QTL Identification To Assist Breeding for Peanut Market Preferences, G3-GENES GENOMES GENETICS (2020)
- Quantitative trait loci sequencing-derived molecular markers for selection of stem rot resistance in peanut, CROP SCIENCE (2020)
- Registration of GP-VT NC 01 peanut germplasm, JOURNAL OF PLANT REGISTRATIONS (2020)
- Introgression Analysis and Morphological Characterization of an Arachis hypogaea x A. diogoi Interspecific Hybrid Derived Population, CROP SCIENCE (2019)
- Major QTLs for Resistance to Early and Late Leaf Spot Diseases Are Identified on Chromosomes 3 and 5 in Peanut (Arachis hypogaea), FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE (2019)