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Plant Genetic Resources, Genomics and Genetic Improvement
(National Program 301) in PR
Tropical Crops and Germplasm Research
- Screening of the NPGS Tepary Bean Collection for Response to the Common Bean Weevil
- Quarantine, Germplasm Acquisition/Maintenance, Phytopathology Studies and Clone Evaluation of Theobroma Cacao
- PLANT BREEDING PARTNERSHIP: Transforming Phaseolus breeding via genome-enabled interspecific trait discovery and introgression
- Increasing Common Bean Productivity in Tanzania
- Reducing avocado losses to major challenges by improving resistance selection and disease management using next generation technologies
- Evaluation of Cacao Performance Trials in Hawaii
- Evaluation of Improved Cacao (Theobroma cacao) and Coffee Materials for Agronomic Performance and Reaction to Diseases
- Developing High-throughput Phenotyping and Genomic Resources for Adaptation to Dryland Conditions in the USDA Tepary Bean Germplasm
- Coffee leaf rust: establishing groundwork to identify pathogen races, host resistance and Biological control in Puerto Rico.
- Student Career in Agricultural Research, Learning, and Extension Training (SCARLET)
- Identifying Fusarium Species that are Emerging Pathogens of Coffee Fruit Rot
- Accelerating Soybean Variety Development through the User of Winter Nursery Facilities in Puerto Rico
- Seed Increase, Evaluation, and Phytosanitary Assessment of Tropically-Adapted Genetic Resources
- Conservation and Utilization of Tropical and Subtropical Fruit, Cacao, Coffee, and Bamboo Germplasm and Associated Descriptive Information
- Production of Cacao Mild Mosaic Virus-Free Plants from the Cacao Germplasm Collection by Somatic Embryogenesis and Virus Screening
- Identifying Coffee Varieties Resistant to Coffee Fruit Rot and Understanding Disease Progression
- Uncovering New Sources of Disease Resistance in Tropical Sorghum Germplasm
- Enhancing Genetic Resilience of Common Bean through Plant Breeding
- Identifying New Sources of Resistance to Mango Anthracnose
- Release and Dissemination of Promising Common Bean Cultivars to Improve Food Security in Honduras and Guatemala
- Detection and Ecology of Fusarium Oxysporum f. sp. Cubense (= F. Odoratissimum), a Catastrophic Pathogen of Bananas
