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Developing Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) Resistant Wheat for the Coastal Plain

Objective

1. Coordinate the mist-irrigated, inoculated Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) nursery in Florence, SC to evaluate advanced nurseries, new DH populations, and Clemson F4:6 breeding lines. 2. Support advanced phenomics methods and genomic selection pipelines to increase predictability and selection accuracy of FHB resistance across collaborative breeding programs in the VDHR-SWW CP.

Investigators
WIDMER T L
Institution
CLEMSON UNIVERSITY
Start date
2022
End date
2024
Funding Source
Agricultural Research Service
Project number
0500-00053-005-074G
Accession number
441791
https://portal.nifa.usda.gov/web/crisprojectpages/441791.html