Vegetable Breeding, Genetics & Genomics
Jul 19, 2022
Jun 17, 2022
Highlights of the CROPS conference 2022 at Huntsville, Alabama
Jun 10, 2022
McGregor lab at the annual IPBGG retreat
May 10, 2022
Apr 19, 2022
Apr 4, 2022
Mar 11, 2022
Jan 29, 2022
Samikshya Rijal featured in UGA CAES Cultivate Student Spotlight
Read all about Samikshya in CAES Cultivate. Samikshya joined our lab at the beginning of 2021 and is already making a big impact!
Jan 20, 2022
Our paper "Field Evaluation of Cucurbita Germplasm for Resistance to Whiteflies and Whitefly-transmitted Viruses" published
Our paper, "Field Evaluation of Cucurbita Germplasm for Resistance to Whiteflies and Whitefly-transmitted Viruses" has been published in HortScience.Alex Luckew was the lead on this research an it was a big effort by researchers at UGA, the University of Florida, Auburn University and the University of Guelp. Congratulations Alex and the whole team!
Dec 20, 2021
Congratulations Douglas Vines
Congratulations to Douglas Vines who won 3rd prize for his undergraduate poster at the annual Plant Center Retreat. The title of the poster was "ClSUN25-26-27a Allelic Variation Associated with Watermelon Fruit Shape". Sammy Josiah is co-author on this poster.
Oct 25, 2021
Orange Bulldog pumpkin featured in Caes Newswire
The CAES Newswire recently did a story about growing fall pumpkins in Georgia and Orange Bulldog pumpkin was prominently featured. Read the story here.
Sep 18, 2021
Orange Bulldog seed production
The lab has been very busy over the past couple of weeks harvesting and processing Orange Bulldog seed. It was a big team effort. Thanks to all lab members and the farm crew for all their hard work.
Aug 15, 2021
Jul 14, 2021
Plant Breeding Practicum visits Watermelon Breeding Program
Students from the Plant Breeding Practicum (PBGG 6000), accompanied by Dr. Wayne Parrott, visited the watermelon breeding program today. The practicum give graduate students the opportunity to visit different UGA breeding programs in Athens, Griffin and Tifton to see first-hand the practical aspects of breeding different crops. And every visit to our program must end with tasting some delicious watermelon!
Thanks for the visit! It was a lot of fun!
Jun 8, 2021
May 24, 2021
Summer has begun!!
The 2021 watermelon field evaluation has been transplanted today, marking the official start of Summer!
In a short time, this field will be thriving with delicious fruit.
May 7, 2021
Seeking Graduate Student
A graduate student position (MS or PhD) is available in our lab to do research on whitefly-transmitted virsus resistance in cucurbits. Interested parties should contact Dr. McGregor.
Feb 22, 2021
New Lab Member
Welcome Samikshya Rijal!
Samikshya graduated with a B. S in Agriculture Sciences from Tribhuvan University, Nepal in 2017 and a master’s degree in agricultural sciences from the University of New Hampshire in 2020. Her previous work involved marker-assisted breeding, and tissue culture. Her focus was QTL mapping for the flowering trait in strawberries.
She will be continuing work on gummy stem blight resistance in watermelon, as part of the CucCap 2 project (National Institute of Food and Agriculture, U.S. Department of Agriculture, award number 2020-51181-32139).
Nov 17, 2020
QTL and markers for selection of Gummy Stem Blight resistance in watermelon
We just published a new paper in Theoretical and Applied Genetics describing QTL mapping of gummy stem blight resistance in watermelon. You can read more about it here.