Dr. John Bamberg

• Antioxidant and anti-cancer screening and introgression.
• Tuber calcium genet. phys. screening methods and introgression.
• Selection for top-only glycoalkaloids.
• Frost tolerance genetics and introgression.
• Gibberellin and other mutant discovery, genetics and use.
• Apomixis detection and use.
• Molecular markers used to reveal dynamics of genetic diversity in genebank -
  • as predicted by eco-geographic parameters
  • inadvertent drift due to seedling selection or differential fecundity
  • vulnerability of alleles (i.e. prevalence across species?)
  • sample bulking technique for heterogeneous populations
  • heterogeneity of populations as predicting need for genotype screening
  • comparisons between genebanks' holdings
  • allele mining for nematode resistance.

• The impact of pollinator type and mating system on gene flow.

Dr. A.J. Bussan

• Development of management practices for production of consistently high quality potatoes for fresh market, seed, processing (French fry), and chip industries.
• Understanding the influence of management systems on maturation and storability of potato.
• Understanding the cause and development of potential management strategies for pink eye in potato.
• Development of sustainable potato and vegetable production systems.
• Development of improved management systems for processing vegetables.
• Expansion of the growing season for Fresh Market Vegetable Production in WI.
• Development and refinement of organic vegetable production systems.

• Effects of population bottlenecks on response to divergent selection for cotyledon size in Brassica rapa.
• Genetic analysis of the rp locus and relationship to vitamin E production in carrot.
• Selection for enhanced vitamin E production in carrot.
• Development of a reliable screen for white rot resistance breeding in onion.
• Evaluation of specific cysteine sulfoxides in onion via HPLC for relationship to onion white rot resistance.
• Variation in spatial deposition of betalain pigment in table beet roots following selection for enhanced pigment concentration.
• Relationship of polyphenol oxidase to enhanced betalain pigment production in table beet.
• Comparison of molecular marker-based and classically-based detection systems for identification of F1 hybrids in progeny of fertil x fertile crosses in carrot and table beet.
• Development of early-maturing onion populations via recurrent selection.
• Development of an improved golden (yellow) table beet population and golden inbred lines for the home gardener and seed industry markets.
• Continued enhancement of betalain pigment concentration in table beet.
• Development of sterile and maintainer carrot inbred lines carrying the rp gene in heterozygous condition.

• Genetics of fructan accumulation in onion.
• Late-blight resistance in potato.
• Phylogenetics of EBN groups in potato.
• Molecular characterization of the MSC mitochondrial mutations of cucumber.
• Genetic characterization of mitochondrial transmission in cucumber.
• Onion breeding and genetics program.
• Molecular tagging of virus resistance in cucumber.
• Comparative mapping of rice and the Asparagales vegetables.

• Breeding for Verticillium wilt resistance in potato.
• Inheritance of resistance to cold sweetening in potato.
• Evaluation of flavor components in potato.

• Potato breeding supported by USDA/CSREES and WPVGA.
• Cloning and molecular characterization of plant centromeres.
• Potato functional genomics.
• Molecular cytogenetic analysis of the potato genome.
• Papaya molecular cytogenetics.

• Fertilizer 15N and remobilized N contribution to annual growth of landscape trees.
• Horticulture outreach programs at US botanical gardens.

Dr. Patrick Krysan

• Analysis of MAP kinase signaling pathways using a reverse-genetic approach.
• Genomic resources for generating targeted deletions in the arabidopsis genome.
• Developing novel, high-throughput technology for genotyping large numbers of individual plants.

• Genetic improvement of cranberry for Wisconsin.
• Manipulating resistance to leafminer pests in white-barked ornamental birches.
• Using interspecific hybridization for improvement of viburnums.
• Propagation strategies for new hybrid Prunus germplasm for Wisconsin.
• Genetics of ease-of-propagation in viburnum interspecific hybrids.
• Regional crop breeding strategies in Wisconsin.
• Pesticide risk reduction in Wisconsin apple production.
• Pasture-based farming in Wisconsin.

• Breeding for resistance to soybean transmitted viral complex in snap beans.
• Breeding for resistance to root rot in snap beans.
• Breeding for resistance to white mold in snap beans.
• Development of commercially acceptable nuna (popping bean cultivars).
• Development of instructional materials in genomics.

• Identification and characterization of genes regulating delayed abscission in Arabidopsis.
• Identification and characterization of genes regulating cell separation and cell-cell adhesion in Arabidopsis by studying ectopic cell separation mutants.
• Identification and characterization of cell-wall biogenesis mutants in Arabidopsis.
• Identification and characterization of genes regulating pod shatter in Arabidopsis and canola.

• Reducing phosphorus fertilizer application to cranberry beds.
• Effect of road salt and alternatives on cranberry growth.
• Evaluation of urea polymer as a nitrogen source for cranberries and apples under Wisconsin conditions.
• Evaluation of cranberry herbicides.
• Yield component analysis of HyRed an other cranberry cultivars.
• Multidisciplinary evaluation of new apple cultivars (NE-183).

• Carrot genetics.
• Freshmarket carrot breeding.
• Garlic seed production and genetics.

• Study of the predictive component of taxonomy and biogeography through an association with disease resistance data.
• Study the biogeographic correlates of ploidy variation in wild and cultivated potatoes.
• Study the phylogeny of potatoes using the single-copy nuclear gene nitrate reductase.
• Study the species boundaries of the wild potato species Solanum berthaultii and S. tarijense with AFLP data.

Dr. John Stier

• Cold-tolerance related research
  • Cold tolerance of tall fescue cultivars affected by maturity.
  • Safety of deicers to turfgrass.
• Environmental research
  • Vegetable buffer strips to reduce urban runoff pollution.
  • Inhibiting golf course runoff pollution with turf and prairie buffer strips.
  • Source of nutrient runoff form turf and prairie vegetation.
  • Use of granulated rubber as sublayer in golf course putting greens to reduce nutrient leaching.
  • Fine fescue and colonial bentgrass mixtures for golf course fairways.
• Herbicides and growth regulators
  • Selective control of bentgrass using novel agrochemicals.
  • Broadleaf weed control in turf.
  • Pre-emergent control of crabgrass.
  • Selective control of annual bluegrass.
  • Poa annua control and herbicide resistance on bentgrass putting green turf.
  • Cultivar response of bentgrasses (Agrostis spp.) to glyphosate herbicide.
• General turf management
  • Establishment time and seed mixture dependence for maximizing sports turf traffic tolerance.
  • Aggressiveness of bluegrass (Poa spp.) in fine fescue turf.
  • Fungicide and growth regulator interactions on turf quality in shade.
  • Mowing and fertility requirements of Texas x Kentucky bluegrass hybrids.
  • Turf establishment using seeded cellulose mats.
  • Determining costs of Integrated Pest Management at schools K-12.
• Cultivar evaluations
  • Kentucky bluegrass cultivar evaluation for golf course fairways.
  • Tall fescue cultivar evaluation for lawns and low maintenance turf.
  • Perennial ryegrass cultivar evaluation for lawns.
  • Fine fescue cultivar evaluation for golf course fairways.
  • Bentgrass cultivar evaluation for golf course fairways.
  • Bentgrass cultivar evaluation for putting greens.
• Molecular genetics
  • Identification of putative velvet bentgrass (Agrostis canina) selections using RAPD markers.

Dr. Dennis Stimart

• Genetics and physiological analysis of:
  • cut flower postharvest longevity
  • direct shoot organogenesis.

• Examining design, model selection and data analysis for multiple quantitative trait loci (QTLs) and microarray gene expression in plant and animal genomes.
• Developing new methodology for inferring QTL for microarray experiments in inbred genetic crosses.