USDA-ARS Postdoctoral Fellowship in Grapevine Abiotic Stress Physiology and Genetics U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in United States

A fully funded PhD position is available at the University of Alaska Fairbanks in the Department of Natural Resources and Environment . The project is based in the Small Grain Breeding and Research Program and focuses on plant breeding and genetics , especially wheat breeding , genetics , and adaptation to subarctic environments . The PhD student will work on research that includes multi-location field phenotyping , germplasm characterization and evaluation , controlled hybridization , populatio...

Colorado State University is advertising a PhD Graduate Research Assistant position in weed ecology and soil health within the Weed Research Lab and the Department of Agricultural Biology. The project is supported by a Western SARE Research and Education Grant and focuses on evaluating annual living mulches as a sustainable weed-management strategy in vegetable production systems. The student will study how living mulches suppress weeds through physical competition and possible allelopathic effe...

University of Minnesota is hiring a Post-Doctoral Associate at the Northwest Research & Outreach Center in Crookston, Minnesota, United States. This postdoctoral project focuses on seed physiology , preharvest sprouting (PHS) , wheat , and crop quality in Hard Red Spring Wheat. The research aims to improve how PHS is measured, understand how ripe wheat seed absorbs water under controlled temperature and relative humidity conditions, measure GA and alpha-amylases over time, and develop and valida...

Edward Buckler is recruiting a PhD student for Cornell University 's Plant Breeding and Genetics program, with a planned start in Fall 2027 . The project focuses on maize and its relatives, asking why they perform so poorly in the cold and how this limitation can be overcome. The research is highly interdisciplinary and combines comparative genomics across grasses and flowering plants, AI models of sequence and function , and field and greenhouse phenotyping . This opportunity is especially suit...

This postdoctoral research associate position is based in the Vegetable Breeding Program at Texas A&M AgriLife Research in Uvalde. The role supports research on vegetable crops with an emphasis on genomics, tissue culture, integrated pest management, agronomy, and cultivar breeding, alongside project coordination for a set of onion and watermelon initiatives. The appointee will work closely with Dr. Subas Malla and contribute to the management of the 4-year USDA NIFA SCRI onion project as well a...