Potato Breeding

Tetraploid and diploid potatoes for chips and fresh market

Cucumber breeding 

Seedless triploid hybrid pickling cucumbers.

Genomic selection

Develop new methods and models and their application to important traits, such as yield, resistance to diseases, postharvest and processing quality

HTP – high-throughput phenotyping

Reduces costs and subjectivity when selecting for important traits, such as yield, disease resistance, postharvest quality, and processing quality.

Stochastic simulations

Identifying the most effective breeding schemes and strategies.

Enviromics

Uses historical weather data, soil, and performance data to better explain GxE and allocate field trials

Computational tools

Develop new R packages, algorithms, and apps to support breeding and quantitative genetics activities.