Craig Yencho
William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor; Program Leader Sweetpotato and Potato Breeding and Genetics Programs
Faculty, Research
Kilgore Hall 214A
Websites
- https://potatoes.ncsu.edu/
- https://sweetpotatogenomics.cals.ncsu.edu/
- https://www.plantbreedingcenter.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
Publications
- Unraveling the Hexaploid Sweetpotato Inheritance Using Ultra-Dense Multilocus Mapping, G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics (2020)
- Development of diagnostic SNP markers for quality assurance and control in sweetpotato [Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.] breeding programs (2019)
- Genetic Covariance of Environments in the Potato National Chip Processing Trial, Crop Science (2019)
- Inheritance of Resistance to Colletotrichum gloeosporioides and C-acutatum in Strawberry, PHYTOPATHOLOGY (2019)
- Unraveling the hexaploid sweetpotato inheritance using ultra-dense multilocus mapping (2019)
- Genetic Diversity and Population Structure of the USDA Sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas) Germplasm Collections Using GBSpoly, FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE (2018)
- Genetic Variance Partitioning and Genome-Wide Prediction with Allele Dosage Information in Autotetraploid Potato, Genetics (2018)
- Genetic variance partitioning and genome-wide prediction with allele dosage information in autotetraploid potato, Genetics (2018)
- Genome sequences of two diploid wild relatives of cultivated sweetpotato reveal targets for genetic improvement, Nature Communications (2018)
- Insights into population structure of East African sweetpotato cultivars from hybrid assembly of chloroplast genomes, Gates Open Research (2018)
Education
PhD, Entomology/Plant Breeding (Minor), Cornell University (1993)
MS, Entomology, Washington State University (1985)
BS, Bioscience, Pennsylvania State University (1982)