In episode #27 of Minnesota CropCast, David Nicolai and Seth Naeve sit down with Jim Anderson from the Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics at the University of Minnesota. As the spring wheat breeder, he has released at least 19 cultivars and co-developed 8 more. Jim is well known in the small grains communities. He speaks regularly with farmers and commodity organizations and is a leader in the wheat breeding community.
Jim is a pioneer in breeding technology with research focused on identifying genes underlying economically important traits and implementing marker-assisted and genomic selection for cultivar and germplasm development.
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