Breeding

Wagyu cattle breeders at WSU reached a milestone this summer, confirming their first homozygous polled heifer.

New wheat varieties emerging from CAHNRS add a growing stream of stable support for breeding advances.

Now paid off, WSU’s expanded Plant Growth facility enables faster, more efficient breeding and more competitive new wheat varieties.

New agreement allows researchers to exchange and study genetic material for high-flavor, next-gen cherries

A new fungus strain bred by WSU researchers could provide a chemical-free method for eradicating mites that kill honey bees.

A team of scientists led by WSU has found that public plant breeding programs are seeing decreases in funding and personnel across the U.S.

We’re featuring outstanding and influential CAHNRS faculty members in a weekly series. This week, we’re profiling Kevin Murphy from WSU’s Department of Crop and Soil Sciences.

DAVENPORT, Wash. — Washington State University Extension is offering a swine artificial insemination school in Moses Lake in September.

PROSSER, Wash. – Nnadozie Oraguzie, a senior scientist at New Zealand’s state-owned horticulture research institution, has assumed duties as stone fruit breeder-geneticist at the Washington State University Prosser Irrigated Agriculture Research and Extension Center. He will focus on development of new sweet cherry varieties suited for production in the Pacific Northwest. “Dr. Oraguzie has an […]

PULLMAN, Wash. – Steven R. Lyon, a senior scientific assistant in Washington State University’s winter wheat breeding program, received the O.A. Vogel Crop Improvement Award Tuesday at the annual meeting of the Washington State Crop Improvement Association in Pasco. The award is given annually to an individual in WSU’s College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural […]