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Welcome to the USDA-Agricultural Research Service Peanut and Small Grains Research Unit! Geneticists and other research scientists at PSGRU discover and develop genetic resistance and other management technologies for insect pests and diseases of wheat, peanut, sorghum, and barley.
 Mesa barley – the first RWA-resistant winter feed barley variety
 Remote-Controlled Peanut Phenotyping Cart
 Lariat peanut was released cooperatively in 2016 by the USDA-ARS and the Oklahoma Agricultural Experiment Station. This high-yielding runner-type peanut cultivar is high-oleic and highly resistant to the soil borne fungal disease Sclerotinia blight.
 The invasive sugarcane aphid emerged as a severe pest of grain and forage sorghum in the southern United States in 2013.  Research at PSGRU is focused on discovering genetic resistance in sorghum germplasm and varieties, breeding sugarcane aphid resistance into sorghum lines, and developing technologies for effective sugarcane aphid management.
 A side by side field comparison of a Russian wheat aphid resistant barley germplasm line developed at PSGRU (left) to a widely grown barley variety without resistance to injury caused by the aphid.


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People Aguirre, Lyndsey Bennett, Rebecca Chamberlin, Kelly Doty, Sharlie Elliott, Norman
                                            *- Norm* Harting, Angela
                                            *- Angie* Huang, Yinghua Knighten, Bailey Li, Genqiao Mornhinweg, Dolores
                                            *- Do* Pals, Melissa Phillips, Angela
                                            *- Angie* Robertson, James
                                            *- Barrett* Xu, Xiangyang


Plains Area   kelly.chamberlin@usda.gov


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