PLB_PHD - Plant Breeding (Ph.D.)
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PROGRAM INFORMATION
Program Director: E. Rios
Program Coordinator: E. Kampf
Plant Breeding is an interdisciplinary and interdepartmental graduate program that provides comprehensive training to prepare well-rounded and career-ready plant breeders for academic, industry, non-profit and other sectors. Our integrated curriculum equips students with traditional and contemporary breeding methodologies, including analysis of breeding trials, breeding methods and techniques, bioinformatics, gene editing, genomic prediction and quantitative genetics.
The Plant Breeding Graduate Program offers a Doctor of Philosophy degree that provides students with a strong background in experimental design and analysis during the first semester, and plant breeding theory and methods during the second semester. Our plant breeding faculty work with 50 plant species and represent diverse disciplines including: cell biology, genomics, molecular genetics, plant pathology, quantitative genetics & biometrics. For a complete faculty listing, please see the last page of this document.
To graduate in the program, students are required to have a minimum of 40 credits of coursework toward their major. Students must take all the 7 required courses listed below for a total of 20 credits of required courses and must additionally choose a minimum of 20 additional credits from the list of elective courses.
Minimum requirements for this degree are available in the Graduate Degrees section of this catalog. Successful applicants should have a B.S. or M.S. in agricultural, horticultural, forestry, biological or chemical sciences with desirable advanced undergraduate coursework in genetics, statistics, plant breeding, and biochemistry. However, outstanding students from a broad range of science and engineering disciplines will be considered.
All doctoral students must have at least one first author publication submitted to a peer-reviewed journal in their research field before graduation. Our students are strongly encouraged to publish before graduating.
Contact program director Dr. Esteban Rios at estebanrios@ufl.edu or 352-301-2244
Contact program coordinator Eliana Kampf at elianak@ufl.edu​ or 352-273-4760
For more information, please visit https://programs.ifas.ufl.edu/plant-breeding/graduate-program/