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Dr. William MeyerDr. William Meyer
Dr. Meyer serves as the Director of Turfgrass Breeding of Kentucky bluegrass, perennial ryegrass, tall fescue, fine fescue and bentgrass at Rutgers University and New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station. This work has involved conducting population improvement projects on 13 different species of cross-pollinated cool-season turfgrasses. A seedling screening technique has also proven successful in identifying promising hybrids in large populations obtained from crossing apomictic Kentucky bluegrasses.

Dr. Meyer has not restricted his efforts solely to the turfgrass breeding area. He has branched into forage grasses, with emphasis on orchardgrass, where he made very substantial progress. He also conducted a major wildflower evaluation program, and directed some efforts in sugarbeet breeding in conjunction with a European company.
 
 
Dr. David SleperDr. David Sleper
Dr. David Sleper is Professor of Agronomy in the Division of Plant Sciences at the University of Missouri-Columbia. His research area is the breeding and genetics of soybean. Research efforts focus on the discovery of new genes for resistance to the soybean cyst nematode and development of improved seed traits for food grade soybean. He is heavily involved in graduate education and teaches plant breeding at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
 
 

Dr. Jeffrey J. VolenecDr. Jeffrey J. Volenec
Dr. Volenec is professor of plant physiology and assistant head of the Department of Agronomy at Purdue University. His responsibilities include research, teaching, and outreach in forage physiology and management. Volenec's research focuses on identifying and characterizing traits, genes, and gene products that impact growth and abiotic stress tolerance of alfalfa. The pivotal nature of plant physiology and biochemistry in functional studies provides students in Volenec's program an excellent opportunity to interact with scientist conducting research ranging from forage management to plant genomics.

Volenec also teaches two dual-level courses to seniors and graduate students; Crop Physiology and Ecology, and Forage Management.
 
 

 

 

  
         
       
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