{"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":"<h2>Websites<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/potatoes.ncsu.edu\/\">https:\/\/potatoes.cals.ncsu.edu\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sweetpotatogenomics.cals.ncsu.edu\/\">https:\/\/sweetpotatogenomics.cals.ncsu.edu\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/plantbreeding.ncsu.edu\/\">https:\/\/plantbreeding.ncsu.edu\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Responsibilities<\/h2>\n<p>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&#8217;s growing conditions with improved root and tuber quality, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>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<h2>General Information<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/horticultural-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2021\/11\/Biosketch_Yencho.pdf\">Curriculum Vitae<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ci.lib.ncsu.edu\/profiles\/yencho\">Publications<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":385,"featured_media":9134,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"source":"","ncst_custom_author":"","ncst_show_custom_author":false,"ncst_dynamicHeaderBlockName":"","ncst_dynamicHeaderData":"","ncst_content_audit_freq":"","ncst_content_audit_date":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"group":[311,366,326,325,315,334,319,308],"person_tag":[],"class_list":["post-1214","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","group-genomics","group-breeding-genetics-genomics-and-bioengineering","group-endowed","group-faculty","group-plant-breeding","group-research-appt","group-root-biology","group-vegetables"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/horticultural-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/1214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/horticultural-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/horticultural-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/horticultural-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/385"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/horticultural-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/1214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39837,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/horticultural-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/1214\/revisions\/39837"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/horticultural-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/horticultural-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/horticultural-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/group?post=1214"},{"taxonomy":"person_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/horticultural-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person_tag?post=1214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}