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Dirk B. Hays - Professor
Director, Weslaco Research & Extension Center - Office:
- Weslaco, TX
- Email:
- dirk.hays@ag.tamu.edu
- Phone:
- 979-458-0032
- Resume/CV
- Graduate Education
- Ph.D., University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 1997
Specialty：Cereal Grain Developmental Genetics
Research
My research focuses on nutritional, food product, and a/biotic stress plant breeding in wheat, sorghum, cowpea, cassava and high biomass energy crop using high throughput remote sensing, biochemical, physiological, and genetic based methods. I currently teach an upper-level undergraduate course in Crop Stress Management (SCSC 402) and a graduate course in Physiology of Plants (MEPS 601) each fall semester.
Support Staff and Students:
Tyler Adams | Yusuf Afaolabi Agbona | Nyarko Agyei | Rachel Rivero |