Ph.D. candidates in other degree programs who wish to pursue a doctoral minor in plant breeding and plant genetics must complete 10 credits of work with at least 2 credits from the plant breeding area and 2 credits from another area of the core curriculum. Also required are 2 credits of seminar (HORT/​AGRONOMY/​GENETICS  957 Seminar-Plant Breeding ). Contact the program for more information concerning the minor.

Faculty

Agronomy
Jean-Michel Ane
Natalia De Leon (program chair)
Lucia Gutierrez
Heidi Kaeppler
Shawn Kaeppler
Bill Tracy

Biochemistry
Rick Amasino
Sebastian Bednarek

Botany
Hiroshi Maeda
Edgar Spalding

Entomology
Johanne Brunet

Genetics
Patrick Masson
Xuehua Zhong

Horticulture
John Bamberg
Paul Bethke
Julie Dawson
Jeff Endelman
Irwin Goldman
Michael Havey
Shelley Jansky
Patrick Krysan
Jim Nienhuis
Jiwan Palta
Phillip Simon
David Spooner
Yiqun Weng
Juan Zalapa

Plant Pathology
Andrew Bent
Doug Rouse

Statistics
Karl Broman
Brian Yandell