David A. Van Sanford
327 Plant Sciences Building
1405 Veterans Drive
Lexington, KY 40546-0312
Last Revised: Mar 19th, 2024
Professional Biography
Areas of Interest: Wheat breeding: development of improved cultivars of soft red winter wheat for Kentucky. Specific research foci include the inheritance of resistance to Fusarium head blight, breeding for adaptation to climate change and identification of genetic factors associated with nitrogen use efficiency.
2018-2019 University of Kentucky Research Professorship Award Recipient
Education
Ph.D., Genetics, North Carolina State University, 1981
M.S., Crop Science, Colorado State University, 1978
B.S., Crop Science, Oregon State University, 1973
