{"id":1214,"date":"2017-03-27T16:23:12","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T20:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/horticultural-science-new\/people\/yencho\/"},"modified":"2024-11-15T13:25:45","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T18:25:45","slug":"yencho","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/horticultural-science\/people\/yencho\/","title":{"rendered":"Craig Yencho"},"content":{"rendered":"
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n