Faculty Profile

Carl A. Griffey, Ph.D.

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Dr. Giffey

Professor

Appointment

Teaching : 10%

Research : 90%

Extension : 0%

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Education

  • B.S. Plant and Soil Science, Univ. of Tennessee 1981
  • M.S. Agronomy, Washington State Univ. 1984
  • Ph.D. Agronomy, Univ. of Nebraska 1997
 

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Professional Activities and Interests

  • Conduct research and provide graduate student instruction and training in the areas of small grains breeding, genetics, and genomics.  My program develops traditional and high value specialty wheat and barley cultivars including soft red winter, hard red winter, and durum wheat, and hulled and hulless barley.  Emphasis is placed on identification, genetic characterization, mapping, and marker assisted selection for durable disease resistance.

Courses

Course Number Course Name
HORT-CSES 5304 Advanced Plant Genetics and Breeding

Current Projects

  • Development of Specialty Wheat Cultivars having High-Value Enduse Quality Traits.

  • Development of Hulless Barley Cultivars for use in Feed, Food, and Biofuels.

  • Wheat Applied Genomics:  Mapping and Marker Assisted Selection of Key Traits in Wheat.

  • Barley Coordinated Agricultural Project:  Association Mapping of Significant Traits in Barley.

  • Breeding, Genetics, and Genomics for Resistance to Fusarium Head Blight, Powdery Mildew, and Stripe Rust in Wheat, and Net Blotch and Leaf Rust Resistance in Barley.

Recent Honors

  • Andy Swiger Land Grant Award, Virginia Tech College of Agriculture & Life Sciences, 2006

  • College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Excellence in Applied Research Award, 2005.

Recent Publications

  • Barbeau, W., C. Griffey, and Z. Yan.  2006.  Evidence that minor sprout damage can lead to significant reductions in the gluten strength of winter wheat. Cereal Chemistry:  83(3): 306-310.

  • Chen, J., C.A. Griffey, M.A. Saghai Maroof, E.L. Stromberg, R.M. Biyashev, W. Zhao, M.R. Chappell, T.H. Pridgen, Y. Dong, and Z. Zeng.  2006. Validation of two major quantitative trait loci for fusarium head blight resistance in Chinese wheat line W14. Plant Breeding 125: 99-101.

  • Tucker, D.M., C.A. Griffey, S. Liu, and M.A. Saghai Maroof.  2006. Potential for effective marker-assisted selection of three quantitative trait loci conferring adult plant resistance to powdery mildew in elite wheat breeding populations.  Plant Breeding:  125: 430-436.

  • Das, M.K., C.A. Griffey, R.E. Baldwin, C.M. Waldenmaier, M.E. Vaughn, A.M. Price, and W.S. Brooks.  2007.  Host resistance and fungicide control of leaf rust (Puccinia hordei) in barley (Hordeum vulgare) and effects on grain yield and yield components.  Crop Protection 26:1422-1430.

  • Mammadov, J. A., W. S. Brooks, C. A. Griffey, and M. S. Saghai Maroof.  2007.  Validating molecular markers for barley leaf rust resistance genes Rph5 and Rph7. Plant Breeding 126:458-463.

  • Sohn, M., D. S. Himmelsbach, F. E. Barton II, C. A. Griffey, W. Brooks, and K. B. Hicks.  2007.  Near-infrared analysis of ground barley for use as a feedstock for fuel ethanol production.  Applied Spectroscopy 61(11):1178-1183.

  • Thomason, W. E., S. B. Phillips, T. H. Pridgen, J. C. Kenner, C. A. Griffey*, B. R. Beahm, and B. W. Seabourn.  2007.  Managing nitrogen and sulfur fertilization for improved bread wheat quality in humid environments. Cereal Chemistry: 84(5):450-462.

  • Thomason, W. E., S. B. Phillips, C. A. Griffey, W. S. Brooks.  2007.  Hulless barley response to ethephon application.  Crop Management doi:10.1094/CM-2007-0509-01-RS.

  • Tucker, D.M., C.A. Griffey, S. Liu, G. Brown-Guedira, D.S. Marshall, and M.A. Saghai Maroof.  2007.  Confirmation of three quantitative trait loci conferring adult plant resistance to powdery mildew in two winter wheat populations.  Euphytica 155:1-13.

  • Zhou, Kequan, Junjie Hao, Carl Griffey, Hyun Chung, Sean O’Keefe, Jianli Chen, and Shelly Hogan.  2007.  Antioxidant properties of fusarium head blight-resistant and –suscpetible soft red winter wheat grains grown in Virginia.  J. of Agricultural and Food Chemistry:  55:3729-2736.

Personal Activities and Interests

Other interests include outdoor activities, arts, music, flower gardening, and cooking

My Work Groups

Keywords

  • wheat
  • barley
  •  breeding
  • genetics
  • genomics
  • varieties
  • cultivars
  • disease resistance
  • high value traits
  • milling and baking quality