Plant Breeding Graduate Thesis Library
2009 Graduates
| Name | Thesis/Dissertation Title |
Adviser | Career |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yunting Dai MSc |
Multiple aleurone and opaque-2 mutant effects on micronutrient concentration in maize |
M. Smith |
Graduate study |
| Jeffrey Gordon PhD |
Reseeding tomato production in West Africa: Identification and deployment of high yielding cultivars resistant to tomato yellow leaf curl disease |
M. Jahn |
Business |
| Micheal Gore PhD |
Whole-genome patterns of DNA variation in maize |
E. Buckler |
Government - research |
| Kari Perez PhD |
Deployment and characterization of recessive resistance gene Pvr1 in the solanaceae |
M. Jahn |
Postdoctoral research |
| Yongfei Zhang PhD |
Genetic analysis of potato tuber flesh pigmentation and shape |
W. De Jong |
Industry - breeding |
2008 Graduates
| Name | Thesis/Dissertation Title |
Adviser | Career |
| Sokona Dagnoko PhD |
Dissecting heterosis in guinea race sorghum: Simultaneous analysis by conventional breeding |
M. Smith |
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| Hui Jiang MSc |
The evolutionary history of a domestication gene for grain size, GS3, in rice: Fine mapping origin, selection and dissemination of an allele conferring long grain |
S. McCouch |
Research institute |
| Seth Murray PhD |
Genetic and phenotypic diversity in sorghum for improvement as a biofuel feedstock |
S. Kresovich |
Academia |
| Cintia Hotta Orsi PhD |
Genetic, developmental, and molecular dissection of Sw4.1 - the major QTL underlying the evolution of increased seed size that accompanied the domestication of tomato |
S. Tanksley |
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| Ricardo Lobato Ortiz PhD |
Combining marker assisted selection, acylsugar assay and fruit related data in the creation and testing of a new generation of insect resistant tomato line |
M. Mutschler |
Academia |
| Maria Salas Fernandez PhD |
Genetic and phenotypic characterization of carotenoid content in sorghum grain |
S. Kresovich |
Academia |
2007 Graduates
| Name | Thesis/Dissertation Title |
Adviser | Career |
| Liza Conrad PhD |
Activator/dissociation (Ac/Ds) mutagenesis and regulation in maize |
T. Brutnell |
Postdoctoral research |
| J. Arahon Hernandez-Guzman PhD |
Improving maize inbred line selection to develop high yielding and stable single cross hybrids using plant density as a selection criterion |
M. Smith |
|
| Jesse Munkvold PhD |
Mapping of phenotypic and gene expression QTL related to preharvest sprouting and seed dormancy in white winter wheat |
M. Sorrells |
Postdoctoral research |
| Gregory Wilson MSc |
(non-thesis) | S. McCouch |
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| Junyun Yang MSc |
Phenotypic and genotypic investigation of multiple disease resistance in maize |
M. Smith |
Graduate study |
2006 Graduates
| Name | Thesis/Dissertation Title |
Adviser | Career |
| Jason Cavatorta MSc |
Studies of the GSB-1 locus for resistance to gummy stem blight disease of melon and breeding for powdery mildew resistance in cucurbits |
M. Jahn |
Graduate study |
| Anjali Iyer-Pascuzzi PhD |
Cloning and characterization of the rice bacterial blight disease resistance gene XA5 |
S. McCouch |
Postdoctoral research |
| Wing Yee Liu MSc |
Comparative genetics of resistance to phytophthora in pepper and strategies to improve marker resources |
M. Jahn |
Industry - breeding |
| Megan Sweeny PhD |
The cloning and evolutionary history of Rc, a gene controlling red pericarp in rice |
S. McCouch |
Postdoctoral research |
| Isaak Tecle PhD |
Responses from phenotypic selection for cell wall components and correlated responses in digestibility in Alfalfa |
D. Viands |
Postdoctoral research |
| Randall Wisser PhD |
The genetic architecture of quantitative resistance in the cereal |
R. Nelson |
Postdoctoral research |
| Inhwa Yeam PhD |
Functional analysis of a translation initiation factor encoded by recessive potyvirus resistance allele at the PVR1 locus in Capsicum |
M. Jahn |
Postdoctoral research |
2005 Graduates
| Name | Thesis/Dissertation Title |
Adviser | Career |
| Flavio Breseghello PhD |
Genetic analysis of kernel morphology and quality in hexaploid wheat using linkage and association approaches |
M. Sorrells |
Government - research |
| Molly Cadle-Davidson PhD |
Mechanisms of resistance to bean common mosaic virus conferred by the I locus in Phaseolus vulgaris L. |
M. Jahn |
Government - research |
| Kai-Yi Chen PhD |
Genetic, developmental, and molecular characterization of SE2.1: A major stigma exsertion QTL associated with the evolution from allogamy to autogamy in tomatoes |
S. Tanksley |
Postdoctoral research |
| Jeremy Edwards PhD |
Origins and distribution of allelic diversity in populations of wild and cultivated rice and phenotypic consequences of admixture at a complex flowering time locus |
S. McCouch |
Postdoctoral research |
| Chun Suk Jung PhD |
Identities of the P and D loci in potato (Solanum tubersoum L.) |
W. De Jong |
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| Frank Kutka PhD |
New and historical issues concerning open-pollinated maize cultivars in the United States |
M. Smith |
Extension |
| Katy Rainey PhD |
Inheritance and analysis of high temperature tolerance in common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) |
P. Griffiths |
Academia |
2004 Graduates
| Name | Thesis/Dissertation Title |
Adviser | Career |
| Luz Stella Barrero Menses PhD |
Genetic and developmental characterization of locule number of loci in tomato with emphasis on the fasciated locus |
S. Tanksley |
Postdoctoral research |
| Amanda Garris PhD |
A molecular population genetics approach to trait discovery in rice (Oryza sativa L.) |
S. Kresovich |
Government - research |
| Carlos Harjes PhD |
Advanced back cross analysis of Zea mays x Zea diploperennis: Identification and verification of novel QTL with agronomic importance in hybrid maize |
M. Smith |
Postdoctoral research |
| Carlos La Rota PhD |
Comparative analysis of wheat and rice genomes based on DNA sequence |
M. Sorrells |
Postdoctoral research |
| Muhamad Yunus PhD |
QTL associated with rice seed dormancy, days to heading and pericarp color, and comparative analysis of seed dormancy |
M. Sorrells |
Government - research |
| Ahmed Maher Wally PhD |
Association of Lycopersicon pennellii introgressions with acylsugar level or deficiencies in horticultural type in acylsugar breeding lines |
M. Mutschler |
2003 Graduates
| Name | Thesis/Dissertation Title |
Adviser | Career |
| Ayman Ali Diab PhD |
Genomic analysis of drought tolerance in wheat and barley |
M. Sorrells |
Research institute |
| James Frantz PhD |
Resistance studies in pepper (Capsicum spp.) and Melon (Cucumis melo) |
M. Jahn |
Industry - breeding |
| James Gethi PhD |
The striga problem: genetic resistance in maize, diversity, and soil seed banks in Coast, Western and Nyanza provinces of Kenya |
M. Smith |
Government - research |
| Elizabeth Graznak MSc |
Identification of agronomic traits associated with quantitative trait loci in a recombinant inbred line population of tef (Eragrostis tef) |
M. Sorrells |
Business - agriculture |
| Min-Jea Kim PhD |
Characterization of the late blight resistance of Lycopersicon pimpinellifolium accession L3708, and its transfer to elite processing tomato lines |
M. Mutschler |
Postdoctoral research |
| Jiming Li PhD |
QTL analysis of grain quality traits, fine mapping and genetic characterization of a grain weight QTL in rice |
S. McCouch |
Postdoctoral research |
| Mande Semon PhD |
Analysis of evolutionary history, population structure and genetic diversity of Oryza glaberrima Steud based on microsatellite markers |
S. McCouch |
Postdoctoral research |
| Muhammet Tonguc PhD |
Evaluation and introgression of black rot (Xanthomonas campestris PV. campestris) resistance in Brassica oleracea L. and related species |
P. Griffiths |
Postdoctoral research |