G. Craig Yencho is the William Neal Reynolds Distinguished
Professor at North Carolina State University. He received his BS in Bioscience from
Pennsylvania State University in 1982 and his MS in Entomology from Washington
State University in 1985, and earned his Ph.D. in Entomology/Plant Breeding
(Minor) from Cornell University in 1993. He is also a member of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Society for
Horticultural Science, the Crop Science Society, the International Society for
Horticultural Science, and the International Society for Tropical Root Crops. His research
interests include plant breeding, plant resistance to insects and pathogens,
use of wild and/or related plant germplasm as a source of commercially
important traits, the application of genomics, molecular biology and plant
biochemistry to plant breeding and the production of renewable, bio-based,
value-added products in sweet potato and potato, and international agricultural
development.
