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Education B.S. (1988) and M.S (1990) Agronomy, Korea University, Seoul, Korea Ph.D. (1994) Food Science, Washington State University
Research Interests As the Director of the Soft Wheat Quality Laboratory, Dr. Baik leads the program, which evaluates the end-use quality of wheat breeding lines to assist the Eastern US wheat breeders in development of wheat varieties with improved end-use quality. With the goals of improving end-use quality and extending the uses of soft wheat, Dr. Baik's research interests include: development of efficient and reliable wheat quality testing methods; physical and biochemical quality traits of soft wheat; functional and nutritional characteristics of whole grain wheat; genetic markers for end-use quality; and quality of soft red wheat for non-conventional uses.
Education Ph.D. (2003) Genetics, University of Missouri, Columbia B.S. (1995), Life Sciences, University of Missouri, Rolla B.S. (1995), Chemical Engineering, University of Missouri, Rolla
Research Goals My goal is to identify genes and genomic markers associated with soft wheat quality traits. Markers can be used to select for varieties or breed new varieties with improved traits. I also plan to characterize genes that control flour quality in eastern soft wheat to better understand compositional and/or architectural differences in the seed leading to improved quality traits. Knowledge of genes that affect seed composition and architecture could be used to predict alleles that enhance wheat quality for specific applications such as cookie, biscuit, or cake baking.
Education Research and Laboratory Science degree, Ohio State University Research Interests To assist research efforts of the Soft Wheat Quality Lab and evaluate submitted breeder samples for milling and baking quality parameters.
Education B.S. Natural Resources, Ohio State University Research Interest Monitor, organize, and obtain inventory of incoming shipments of wheat samples. Conducts physical and chemical evaluation tests then processes the data into summarized reports.
Taehyun Ji Research Food Technologist taehyun.ji@usda.gov Phone: (330) 641-3423
