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College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

# overview
Dr. Vales leads the Texas A&M Potato Breeding and Variety Development Program. The goal of the Program is to develop high yielding potato varieties, mainly for the fresh and chipping markets, adapted to Texas growing conditions. She combines conventional and molecular tools to enhance the efficiency of potato breeding efforts and to maximize genetic gains from selection.

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30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

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3002 Agriculture, Land And Farm Management

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30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

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3002 Agriculture, Land And Farm Management

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30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

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30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

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30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

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3002 Agriculture, Land And Farm Management

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30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

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30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

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3002 Agriculture, Land And Farm Management

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30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

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30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

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3002 Agriculture, Land And Farm Management

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30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

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30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

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30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

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30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

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30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

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30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

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30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

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30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

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30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

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30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

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30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

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James and Mildred Oldfield/E.R. Jackman Team Award

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Sage Russet: a New High Yielding Russet Potato Variety with Cold-Sweetening Resistance, High Vitamin C and Protein Contents and Excellent Fresh Pack and Processing Potential

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Pyramiding and dissecting disease resistance QTL to barley stripe rust.

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"AmaRosa," a Red Skinned, Red Fleshed Fingerling with High Phytonutrient Value

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MarkerAssessed Retention of Wheat Chromatin in Wheat (Triticum aestivum) by Jointed Goatgrass (Aegilops cylindrica) Backcross Derivatives

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Owyhee Russet: A Variety with High Yields of U.S. No. 1 Tubers, Excellent Processing Quality, and Moderate Resistance to Fusarium Dry Rot (Fusarium solani var. coeruleum)

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Waterlogging tolerance in pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.): genotypic variability and identification of tolerant genotypes

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Molecular mapping of the Oregon Wolfe Barleys: a phenotypically polymorphic doubled-haploid population

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Premier Russet: A Dual-Purpose, Potato Cultivar with Significant Resistance to Low Temperature Sweetening During Long-Term Storage

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Alpine Russet: A Potato Cultivar Having Long Tuber Dormancy Making it Suitable for Processing from Long-term Storage

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Maize centromere mapping: a comparison of physical and genetic strategies.

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Development and Commercialization of CMS Pigeonpea Hybrids

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Non-invasive identification of potato varieties and prediction of the origin of tuber cultivation using spatially offset Raman spectroscopy.

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Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) Based Fingerprinting of the Texas A&M Potato Breeding Collection

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Production and characterization of maize chromosome 9 radiation hybrids derived from an oat-maize addition line.

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Six cycles of selection for adaptation in two exotic populations of maize

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Effective and economic storage of pigeonpea seed in triple layer plastic bags

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Map-based analysis of genes affecting the brittle rachis character in tetraploid wheat (Triticum turgidum L.).

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Cultivar heterosis between sweet and Spanish field corn

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Development of an in vitro Microtuberization and Temporary Immersion Bioreactor System to Evaluate Heat Stress Tolerance in Potatoes (Solanum tuberosum L.).

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Chloroplast and nuclear microsatellite analysis of Aegilops cylindrica.

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Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Based High Throughput Phenotyping (HTP) to Assess Correlations between Potato Crop Growth and Yield

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Phased, chromosome-scale genome assemblies of tetraploid potato reveal a complex genome, transcriptome, and predicted proteome landscape underpinning genetic diversity.

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Genetic diversity and population structure of advanced clones selected over forty years by a potato breeding program in the USA.

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High-resolution radiation hybrid map of wheat chromosome 1D.

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Isolation of A/D and C genome specific dispersed and clustered repetitive DNA sequences from Avena sativa.

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Echo Russet: A Russet Potato Variety with a High Yield of Marketable Tubers, High Processing Quality, and Few Tuber Defects

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Genomic selection and genome-wide association studies in tetraploid chipping potatoes.

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Purple Pelisse: A Specialty Fingerling Potato with Purple Skin and Flesh and Medium Specific Gravity

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Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Genotyping for Breeding and Genetics Applications in Chickpea and Pigeonpea using the BeadXpress Platform

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Inheritance of resistance to ear damage caused by Sesamia nonagrioides (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) in maize.

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Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) Based Fingerprinting of the Texas A&M Potato Breeding Collection

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Radiation hybrid mapping of the species cytoplasm-specific (scsae) gene in wheat.

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Incorporation of Mannitol in Tissue Culture Media to Reduce In Vitro Potato Plant Growth for Long-term Storage

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Vanguard Russet: A Fresh Market Potato Cultivar with Medium-Early Maturity and Long Dormancy

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Yukon Gem: A Yellow-Fleshed Potato Cultivar Suitable for Fresh-Pack and Processing with Resistances to PVYO and Late Blight

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Transgressive segregation for phenological traits in barley explained by two major QTL alleles with additivity

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A complete set of maize individual chromosome additions to the oat genome.

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Genomic regions associated with tuber traits in tetraploid potatoes and identification of superior clones for breeding purposes.

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Recurrent selection for grain yield in two spanish maize synthetic populations

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Molecular Analysis of Potatoes from the Pacific Northwest Tri-State Variety Development Program and Selection of Markers for Practical DNA Fingerprinting Applications

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Hybridization between wheat and jointed goatgrass (Aegilops cylindrica) under field conditions

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Genetic structure of Aegilops cylindrica Host in its native range and in the United States of America.

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Raman spectroscopy detects chemical differences between potato tubers produced under normal and heat stress growing conditions.

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Incorporation of Mannitol in Tissue Culture Media for Long-Term Storage of Potatoes at Moderately Low Temperature and Effect on Subsequent Micropropagation

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RMo1 confers blast resistance in barley and is located within the complex of resistance genes containing Mla, a powdery mildew resistance gene.

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Willamette: A Chipping Cultivar with High Yield and Specific Gravity, Low Incidence of Hollow Heart and Brown Center, and Suitability for Fresh-Market Usage

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Molecular cytogenetic characterization of an alloplasmic durum wheat line with a portion of chromosome 1D of Triticum aestivum carrying the scs(ae) gene.

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Allozyme frequencies, heterozygosity and genetic distances following S1 recurrent selection in two synthetic maize populations

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Identification of dominant and recessive genes for resistance to Fusarium wilt in pigeonpea and their implication in breeding hybrids

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Breeding for Earliness in Pigeonpea: Development of New Determinate and Nondeterminate Lines

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Blazer russet: An early to Mid-Season potato cultivar with high U.S. no. 1 yields and good processing and culinary qualities

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Identification and mapping of genetic loci affecting the free-threshing habit and spike compactness in wheat ( Triticum aestivum L.).

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Identification of Tetraploid Potato Clones with Good Processing Quality among Genotypes with Reduced Zebra Chip Disease Symptomatology

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Validation and Implementation of Marker-Assisted Selection (MAS) for PVY Resistance (Ryadg gene) in a Tetraploid Potato Breeding Program

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12 Responsible Consumption and Production

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Clearwater Russet: A Dual-Purpose Potato Cultivar with Cold Sweetening Resistance, High Protein Content, and Low Incidence of External Defects and Sugar Ends

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Mapping multiple disease resistance genes using a barley mapping population evaluated in Peru, Mexico, and the USA

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Combining Abilities for Maize Stem Antibiosis, Yield Loss, and Yield under Infestation and Non Infestation with Pink Stem Borer

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Screening Potato Germplasm for Tolerance/Resistance to Zebra Chip Disease under Greenhouse Conditions

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SSR-BASED DNA FINGERPRINTING OF POTATO CLONES FROM THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST POTATO VARIETY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

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International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS)

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Effect of population size on the estimation of QTL: a test using resistance to barley stripe rust.

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Perspectives on Finding and using Quantitative Disease Resistance Genes in Barley

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Map-based analysis of genetic loci on chromosome 2D that affect glume tenacity and threshability, components of the free-threshing habit in common wheat (Triticum aestivum L.).

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Highland Russet: A Full Season, Processing Variety with High Yields of Uniform U.S. No. 1 Tubers

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Development and characterization of recombinant chromosome substitution lines (RCSLs) using Hordeum vulgare subsp. spontaneum as a source of donor alleles in a Hordeum vulgare subsp. vulgare background.

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TerraRossa: A Mid-Season Specialty Potato with Red Flesh and Skin and Resistance to Common Scab and Golden Cyst Nematode

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Multiple-site identification of potato parent clones conferring high levels of late blight resistance with a corresponding genetic model for resistance

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GGE biplot based assessment of yield stability, adaptability and mega-environment characterization for hybrid pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan)

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MARKER-ASSISTED SELECTION FOR PVY RESISTANCE IN TETRAPLOID POTATOES

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International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS)

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Palisade Russet: A Late Blight Resistant Potato Cultivar Having a Low Incidence of Sugar Ends and High Specific Gravity

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Ensuring Genetic Purity of Pigeonpea Hybrids by Incorporating a NakedEye Polymorphic Marker in A and B Lines

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Characterization of Resistance to Corky Ringspot Disease in Potato: A Case for Resistance to Infection by Tobacco Rattle Virus

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Classic Russet: A Potato Cultivar with Excellent Fresh Market Characteristics and High Yields of U.S. No. 1 Tubers Suitable for Early Harvest or Full-Season Production

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Erratum: Recurrent selection for grain yield in two spanish maize synthetic populations (crop science 41:1 (15-19))

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Inheritance of Antibiosis to Sesamia nonagrioides (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) in Maize

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Yukon Nugget: a Mid-Season Yellow Skin, Yellow Flesh Specialty Potato with Extreme Resistance to Potato Virus X

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Radiation hybrid (RH) and HAPPY mapping in plants.

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Transmission of maize chromosome 9 rearrangements in oat-maize radiation hybrids.

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Integrated physiological and molecular approaches to improvement of abiotic stress tolerance in two pulse crops of the semi-arid tropics

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DEVELOPMENT OF IMPROVED POTATO VARIETIES FOR TEXAS AND THE SOUTHWEST

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National Institute of Food and Agriculture - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)

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Potato Breeding and Cultivar Development in the Southwest

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United States Department of Agriculture - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)

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USDA-National Institute of Food And Agriculture

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Texas A&M University; Horticultural Sciences; 2133 TAMU

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College of Agriculture and Life Sciences