date:Aug 21, 2013
s director of the new center.
Collaborators include K.S.U.s departments of agronomy, plant pathology, entomology and grain science and industry; the U.S. Department of Agricultures plant science and wheat genetics units; the Kansas Wheat Commission; the Kansas Wheat Alliance and corporations, including Bayer CropScience, Syngenta, Limagrain, Dow AgroSciences L.L.C., General Mills, Inc. and the Heartland Plant Innovation Center.
The N.S.F. awarded a seed grant to start the research center, with