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William Rooney
- Regents Professor
Borlaug-Monsanto Chair in International Crop Improvement
AgriLife Faculty Fellow
Sorghum Breeding & Genetics - Office:
- Foundation Seed Building
- Email:
- [email protected]
- Phone:
- (979) 321-5938
- Resume/CV
- Graduate Education
- M.S. Plant Breeding, Texas A&M University, 1989
- Ph.D. Plant Breeding and Genetics, University of Minnesota, 1992
- Courses Taught
- SCSC 481 - Senior Seminar - a capstone course bringing together student experiences, exams, and exercises necessary for completing and assessing curriculum program learning outcomes.
- SCSC 642 - Plant Breeding II - Expectations of genetic improvement for different plant breeding methods; relative efficiency for crops of different reproductive mechanisms; genetic variances, covariances and genotype-environment interaction components of variance used in planning selection procedures.
Professional Summary
Specialty: Sorghum breeding
Support staff and graduate students: Kayla Beechinor | Edgar Correa | Samuel Hester | Jeremy Klumper | Nick Porter | Pradip Sapkota | Noah Winans | Seth Garrett | Becaye Gueye