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Wayne Smith
- Professor and Associate Department Head
Cotton Genetics - Office:
- 434B Heep Center / Cotton Improvement Lab
- Email:
- [email protected]
- Phone:
- 979-321-5903
Education
- Undergraduate Education
- Ph.D., University of Tennessee/Knoxville, 1974
- Awards
- Courses Taught
- SCSC 311 - Principles of Crop Production
- SCSC 610 - Host Plant Resistance
- SCSC 641 - Plant Breeding I
Professional Summary
Research and Teaching:
Research duties include development of superior germplasm/cultivars which will enhance the productivity, improve the product quality, and/or decrease production costs associate with cotton production in Texas. Primary research sites in Texas are College Station, Weslaco, Corpus Christi, Thrall, and Chillicothe, as well as colleagues at Lubbock. Primary geographical areas of responsibilities are central and south Texas with secondary goals aimed at all cotton producing areas of Texas and the United States.
Teaching/administrative duties include teaching at the undergraduate level (SCSC 311) and graduate level (SCSC 610 and SCSC 641),direction of graduate students in plant breeding, administration of departmental academic affairs, and coordination of graduate program in Soil and Crop Sciences, including recruitment and general advising. Position directs the graduate program in SCSC with majors in AGRONOMY, SOIL SCIENCE, and PLANT BREEDING, and directs the Distance M.S. and Ph.D. Program in Plant Breeding with M.S. and Ph.D. degrees conferred by Soil and Crop Sciences and Horticultural Sciences. Non-traditional teaching includes but is not limited to oversight of a weekly seminar series involving plant breeding faculty and graduate students in SCSC, HORT, and other departments, and the distance plant breeding graduate program.
Support Staff
Beth McClosky| Frances Mutscher | Kathy Schmitt
Graduate Students
Pierre Buffard | Anil Konan | Nick Shepard | Marshall Tolleson | Merlin Yerra