Tenured and Tenure-track Faculty, Senior Research Associates, and Senior Extension Associates
These faculty have primary affiliations with other SIPS sections and Cornell units or with USDA-ARS
Faculty emeriti and other retired academics
Graduate students in the Field of Plant Breeding
Post-doctoral associates, research associates, extension associates, and lecturers
Staff members support research scientists, maintain greenhouses and research fields, and manage administrative functions
Plant Breeding & Genetics News
Spotlight
Shari Romar has joined the School of Integrative Plant Science’s (SIPS) communications team to help elevate awareness of the School’s longstanding engagement efforts with communities across the state, nationally and globally. “Shari brings a...
Spotlight
Academic focus: Breeding for sustainable cropping systems, cover crops, intercropping, polycultures, organic farming systems, Legumes, forages, alfalfa, hemp Research summary: My research focus is on plant breeding for sustainable cropping...
News
The ultimate challenge for crop breeders is to increase genetic gain of a crop: literally, to increase the crop’s yield on farmers’ fields. Wheat and maize breeders from Cornell University, the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center...
News
For the Indigenous Cayuga Nation, who call themselves Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫʼ (pronounced Guy-yo-KO-no), Cornell will use the word Ganędagǫ: (pronounced Gah-NEN-dah-go) – meaning “hill” in the Gayogo̱ hó꞉nǫ' language. This is the ancestral name for the...