Wheaties Staff
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Daniel Skinner is the Research Leader for the Wheat Genetics,
Quality, Physiology and Disease Research Unit. He leads a five-scientist
team in developing new advances in cereal chemistry,
physiology, pathology and genetics of wheat with the goal of developing
improved germplasm and varieties. Click here to contact
Dr. Skinner.
Xianming Chen is responsible for initiating, conducting, and coordinating
basic and applied research on rusts and smuts in the western United States,
national research on stripe rust and flag smut, and an international program
on evaluating germplasm for stripe rust resistance. Click here to contact
Dr. Chen.
Craig F. Morris
Craig F. Morris directs the USDA-ARS Western Wheat Quality Laboratory . Due to the breadth and complex nature of the assigned area, Dr. Morris identifies and selects specific topics to pursue based on Agency priorities and objectives, and the needs of consumers, processors, marketers, growers and breeders of wheat and wheat-based foods. Click here to contact Dr. Morris.
Camille M. Steber, a Research Molecular Geneticist, is developing new approaches
for identification and functional analysis of wheat genes. Dr. Steber's lab is
developing a Ac/Ds transposon-based activation tagging system for hexaploid wheat
that will enrich for dominant mutations and allow cloning of tagged genes.
Dr. Steber's lab investigates the mechanisms by which the plant hormone GA controls
plant height and germination. Click here to contact
Dr.Steber.
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Kimberly Garland Campbell is a wheat geneticist and breeder employed by the USDA-ARS at Pullman Washington.
She is an adjunct faculty member of the Dept. of Crop and Soil Sciences at Washington State University.
Dr. Campbell’s program goals are to develop improved cultivars of soft white and club
wheat, and to evaluate, introgress, and distribute improved wheat germplasm. Her program
concentrates on reducing producer risk by incorporating genetic resistance to disease and
environmental stresses such as cold and drought and on improving the end use quality of
wheat. Dr. Campbell received her Ph.D. in Crop Science from North Carolina State University in 1992.
She was a member of the faculty at The Ohio State University from 1992 until 1999 as
a winter wheat breeder. Dr. Campbell has been active in several national committees for
wheat improvement and germplasm collection, preservation, exchange, and enhancement.
Click here to contact Dr. Garland campbell.
R.E. Allan
R.E. (Bob) Allan continues to
work closely with both ARS and WSU on wheat breeding projects.
Dr. Allan developed the variety Madsen, which is currently the
most widely planted variety in Washington State. In 1998 Dr. Allan
in cooperation with Federal-State research programs at Pullman,
WA, released a new soft white club winter wheat variety named 'Coda'.
Coda is adapted to areas of northwestern USA where semidwarf club wheat
varieties can be grown. For a picture of Bob plying his trade,
click here.
Roland F. Line
Rollie Line, who recently retired from ARS,
works with Dr. Xianming Chen, ARS and the WSU Plant Pathology Dept on research of rusts and
smuts of wheat and barley.
Patsy Wood
Patsy Wood, Unit Secretary, is
responsible for the 'smooth' operation of the Wheat Genetics office.
Lynn M. Little
Lynn M. Little, Biological Science
Technician, Plants, participates in planning of field and greenhouse experiments.
She independently tabulates, summarizes, collates, and analyzes data
using standard statistical methods, and prepares reports of progress of
work for supervisor.
David A. Wood
David A. Wood, Biological Science
Technician, Plants, participates with the unit's plant pathologist and
other scientists in planning and conducting research on cereal diseases,
especially the rusts, powdery mildew, and smuts of wheat. He is also
responsible for planning and implementing work operations within the framework of
general and specific assignments, including design of experiments,
planting plans, and leading laboratory, greenhouse, and field
experiments in Pullman, Washington, and at field sites in the western
United States.
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