UGA Vegetable Breeding

Based on the Tifton campus, the UGA Vegetable Breeding Program leads efforts to breed bell pepper and other specialty peppers for stress adaptation (biotic and abiotic), fruit quality, and horticultural traits that are relevant for Georgia and the southeast US.

Breeding interests include pre-breeding, trait introgression, marker-assisted selection, high-throughput phenotyping, and application of integrated omics to develop bell pepper and other sweet pepper breeding lines and potential cultivars.