Job Details. Duties. Develop improved cultivars of forage grasses. Identify breeding methods to break undesirable correlations between forage quality and fitness traits. Identify and evaluate selection criteria (e.g. reduced lignin, fiber digestibility, and physical characteristics during digestion) for improving nutritive value and intake potential of perennial forages, and utility for novel end-uses. Provide leadership and collaborate in the ef...
Summary. The incumbent is a Research Geneticist assigned to the Dairy Forage Research Unit (DFRU) of the U.S. Dairy Forage Research Center, Madison, WI. The workstation for this position is located in Madison, WI. The incumbent serves as research team member for the DFRU and participates in a dynamic, team-based, and collaborative research program designed to address dairy forage production and sustainability goals and objectives among USDA, indu...
Duties. Conduct GWAS, genomic prediction, and population genetic analyses with large genomic datasets and phenotypic information on economically important carrot traits with an emphasis on diseases and pests. Participate in a team that is developing an expanded carrot database to catalog genomic and phenotypic information of interest for researchers. Support the application of genomic tools in breeding programs. Requirements. Conditions of Employ...
