Breeding and Genetics

Christine Diepenbrock

• Assistant Professor, Assistant Plant Scientist
• Faculty

Plant Nutrition and breeding

• chdiepenbrock@ucdavis.edu
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Plant Reproductive Biology

Gail Taylor

• Professor and Department Chair, Department of Plant Sciences
• Faculty
• Department Chair
• Plant Sciences Executive Committee - Chair

Plant adaptation to a changing climate, genetics and genomics of leafy salad crops, non-food woody biomass crops for bioenergy. Sustainability, ecosystem services, plants and the Sustainable Development Goals.

• 530-752-9165
• 530-902-6013
• gtaylor@ucdavis.edu
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1210 PES
UC Davis, One Shields Ave, Davis CA 95616

Dina Ann St. Clair

• Professor Plant Breeding and Genetics
• Faculty

Plant breeding, genetics and genomics of quantitative traits; quantitative genetics; use of wild species in crop and germplasm improvement; QTL introgression; marker-assisted selection and genomics in breeding.

• 530-752-1740
• dastclair@ucdavis.edu
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114 ASMUNDSON
UC Davis, One Shields Ave, Davis CA 95616

Daniel E. Runcie

• Assistant Professor
• Faculty

Computational and statistical plant biology, crop and gene network modeling, quantitative and evolutionary genomics

• 530-746-8829
• deruncie@ucdavis.edu
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278 Robbins
UC Davis, One Shields Ave, Davis CA 95616

Dan E. Parfitt

• Pomologist
• Emeriti

Genetics of fruit crops - genetic diversity, germplasm use, pistachio breeding

• 530-752-7031
• deparfitt@ucdavis.edu
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2025 WICKSON
UC Davis, One Shields Ave, Davis CA 95616

Richard W. Michelmore

• Distinguished Professor and Director of the Genome Center
• Faculty

Comparative functional genomics of disease resistance, lettuce genomics and breeding

• 530-752-1729
• rwmichelmore@ucdavis.edu
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4311 GBSF
UC Davis, One Shields Ave, Davis CA 95616

David James Mackill

• Faculty

• 530-752-4940
• djmackill@ucdavis.edu
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2140 PES
UC Davis, One Shields Ave, Davis CA 95616

Steven J. Knapp

• Professor and Director of the Strawberry Breeding Program
• Faculty

Breeding, genetics, and genomics of strawberry, quantitative genetics, marker-assisted selection, and genomic selection

• 530-752-6884
• sjknapp@ucdavis.edu
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112 ROBBINS
UC Davis, One Shields Ave, Davis CA 95616

Daniel J. Kliebenstein

• Professor
• Faculty

Plant Secondary metabolism, Metabolic networks and quantitative Genetics

• 530-754-7775
• kliebenstein@ucdavis.edu
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129 ASMUNDSON
UC Davis, One Shields Ave, Davis CA 95616

Robert B. Hutmacher

• Cooperative Extension Specialist and Director, UC West Side Research & Extension Center
• Faculty

cotton production and quality issues, plant water stress, microirrigation

• 559-260-8957
• rbhutmacher@ucdavis.edu
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UC Davis, One Shields Ave, Davis CA 95616