NH Agricultural Experiment Station (NHAES) scientists at the University of New Hampshire are among those who have been awarded a $10 million, five-year federal grant to develop and apply modern DNA-based tools to deliver new cultivated varieties of rosaceous crops such as apples, peaches, strawberries, and cherries with superior product quality and disease resistance.
Considered among the leading scientists worldwide conducting this kind of research, geneticist Tom Davis, bioinformaticist Hailong Zhang, and graduate students Lise Mahoney, David Wood, and Yilong Yang, join 35 scientists from 14 U.S. institutions along with numerous international collaborators to work on genomics, genetics, and breeding of rosaceous crops.