Craig Yencho
William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor
Program Leader Sweetpotato and Potato Breeding and Genetics Programs
Kilgore Hall 214A
Bio
Websites
- https://potatoes.cals.ncsu.edu/
- https://sweetpotatogenomics.cals.ncsu.edu/
- https://plantbreeding.ncsu.edu/
Responsibilities
Dr. Yencho has research responsibilities (100%) in sweetpotato and potato breeding and genetics. Research emphasis is on developing disease and insect resistant table-stock, processing and specialty-type sweetpotatoes and potatoes adapted to North Carolina’s growing conditions with improved root and tuber quality, respectively.
Research interests include plant breeding, plant resistance to insects and pathogens, use of wild and/or related plant germplasm as a source of commercially important traits, applications of genomics, molecular biology and plant biochemistry to plant breeding and the production of renewable, bio-based, value-added products in sweetpotato and potato, and international agricultural development.
General Information
Education
PhD Entomology/Plant Breeding (Minor) Cornell University 1993
MS Entomology Washington State University 1985
BS Bioscience Pennsylvania State University 1982
Publications
- Baked sweetpotato textures and sweetness: An investigation into relationships between physicochemical and cooked attributes , FOOD CHEMISTRY-X (2024)
- Genotype-by-environment interactions and local adaptation shape selection in the US National Chip Processing Trial , THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS (2024)
- Development of NIRS calibration curves for sugars in baked sweetpotato , JOURNAL OF THE SCIENCE OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE (2023)
- Genetic diversity, population structure, and selection of breeder germplasm subsets from the USDA sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas) collection , FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE (2023)
- Heterotic gains, transgressive segregation and fitness cost of sweetpotato weevil resistance expression in a partial diallel cross of sweetpotato , EUPHYTICA (2023)
- Identification of the key morphological sweetpotato weevil resistance predictors in Ugandan sweetpotato genotypes using correlation and path‐coefficient analysis , Crop Science (2023)
- Interrelations of & alpha;- and & beta;-amylase activity with starch, sugars, and culinary and nutritional quality attributes in sweetpotato storage roots , JOURNAL OF THE SCIENCE OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE (2023)
- Qmatey: an automated pipeline for fast exact matching-based alignment and strain-level taxonomic binning and profiling of metagenomes , BRIEFINGS IN BIOINFORMATICS (2023)
- A Win-Win Situation: Performance and Adaptability of Petite Sweetpotato Production in a Temperate Region , HORTICULTURAE (2022)
- Breedbase: a digital ecosystem for modern plant breeding , G3-GENES GENOMES GENETICS (2022)