Yu's research integrates knowledge in Plant Breeding, Quantitative Genetics, Genomics, Molecular Genetics, and Statistics, and has the ultimate goal of developing and implementing new strategies and methods in trait dissection and crop improvement. How should we design the current plant breeding methods to make better use of genetic resources and high throughput genotyping and phenotyping technologies? How can we efficiently identify genes underlying quantitative traits so that the resulting empirical findings can help answer fundamental questions? How can we leverage design thinking, genetic design, and experimental design to plan out our research? Guiding questions addressed by this program include: Yu teaches a graduate student class, AGRON 621 - Advanced Plant Breeding, each Spring semester. All members of this research program conduct empirical experiments in plant breeding and genetics and contribute to summer and winter nursery work, and many of them also carry out computer simulations or bioinformatics research to generalize their specific findings to a broad context. The focus of Yu’s program is to address significant questions in quantitative genetics by combining cutting-edge genomic technologies and maize breeding. Phone: 51, Fax: 51, Email: Yu is Professor and Pioneer Distinguished Chair in Maize Breeding in the Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University.
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Jianming Yu, Professor and Pioneer Distinguished Chair in Maize Breeding
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