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Plant Genetic Resources Unit (PGRU):
The mission of the Plant Genetic Resources Unit is to acquire, maintain, characterize, and distribute plant genetic resources of selected fruit and vegetable crops, including apple, grape, onion, tomato, and vegetable Brassica crops, and to develop new precocious and productive apple rootstocks
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Grape Genetics Research Unit (GGRU):
The mission of the Grape Genetics Research Unit is the advancement of grape production through interdisciplinary research, breeding and technology transfer. The goals of the program are to reduce crop yield and quality losses to diseases, pests, and abiotic stress and improve grape and grape
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Plant, Soil and Nutrition Research:
The mission of the Plant, Soil and Nutrition Research Unit is to improve the security and nutritional quality of plant crop species through interdisciplinary research integrating approaches from molecular biology and genomics, bioinformatics, genetics, physiology, biochemistry and membrane
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Emerging Pests and Pathogens Research:
Our research unit advances comprehensive knowledge of the biological and economic impacts of invasive pest/pathogen populations and develops appropriate sustainable, economical, and environmentally friendly management strategies. Research encompasses insects, weeds, nematodes, fungi, bacteria, and
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