Faculty in Soil and Crop Sciences
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Byron Burson Reasearch Plant Geneticist USDA-ARS b-burson@tamu.edu |
Cytogenetics, reproductive biology and Crop Germplasm Research (USDA/ARS). |
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Tom Cothren Professor JCothren@ag.tamu.edu |
Crop Production / Physiology |
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Harry Cralle Associate Professor hcralle@tamu.edu |
Crop Sciences |
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Scott A. Finlayson Assistant Professor sfinlayson@tamu.edu |
Mechanisms of megagametogenesis (with emphasis on apomixes), and the control of plant development by environmental cues. |
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Dirk B. Hays Assistant Professor dbhays@ag.tamu.edu |
Developing a better understanding of the mechanisms that regulate seed development and associated end-use quality in wheat, related cereals, and model Brassicaceae. |
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Jim Heilman Professor JHeilman@ag.tamu.edu |
Environmental Physics |
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Jim R. Kiniry Research Agronomist, Natural Resources Systems Research jkiniry@spa.ars.usda.gov |
Research related to crop modeling for use in agricultural management models. |
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William A. Payne Associate Professor w-payne@tamu.edu |
Water Use Efficiency, Crop Stress Physiology, Soil & Crop Modeling, International Agriculture, etc. |
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Giovanni Piccinni Assistant Professor g-piccinni@tamu.edu |
Modeling plant growth to identify optimum threshold of irrigation frequency. |
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Keerti Rathore Assistant Professor, TAES rathore@tamu.edu |
Crop Transformation |
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Scott A. Senseman Associate Professor s-senseman@tamu.edu |
Weed science; pesticide fete and transport. |
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David M. Stelly Professor stelly@tamu.edu |
Plant cytogenetics, cyto-genomics, germplasm introgression, reproductive genetics and apomixis, especially cotton and its relatives. |
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Lee Tarpley Assistant ProfessorM ltarpley@tamu.edu |
Plant Physiology |
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Terry J. Gentry Assistant Professor of Soil & Aquatic Microbiology tgentry@ag.tamu.edu |
Soil & Aquatic Microbiology |
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Donald M. Vietor Professor dvietor@tamu.edu |
Developing and evaluating systems for cycling and conserving nutrients in livestock and municipal biosolids through production and transplanting of turfgrass sod. |
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Richard White Associate Professor RWhite@ag.tamu.edu |
Turfgrass |
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Hongbin Zhang Associate Professor hbz7049@tamu.edu |
Conduct research in genomics and molecular genetics of crop plants and develop integrated genomic tools for enhanced and continued crop genetic improvement and variety breeding. |