Accelerate Team
Hi, we are an early career team excited to transfer approaches in major crops to underutilized crops. We are the workforce for G2P breeding in water efficient crops.
Rick is Assistant Professor at Clemson University. Rick focuses on traditional and molecular breeding approaches with high-throughput phenotyping to accelerate crop breeding cycles.
Small Grains Breeding
RICK BOYLES
Marylou is Assistant Professor at Georgia Southern University, GA. Mary is working on the molecular physiology of sorghum to better understand the mechanisms behind tolerance to drought.
Plant Biologist
MARYLOU MACHINGURA
Chad is a Research Geneticist at USDA-ARS in Lubbock, TX. Chad leads one of the largest publicly-funded applied sorghum breeding programs in the US, with special emphasis on abiotic stress tolerance and utilization of diverse and exotic sorghum.
Sorghum Breeding
CHAD HAYES
Melinda Yerka is an Assistant Professor of Plant Breeding and Plant Genetics at the University of Nevada, Reno. Melinda is working on breeding sorghum having specialty endosperm traits, especially traits for human food, animal feed, biofuel, craft brewing, and craft distilling.
Small Grains Breeding