Bill Berzonsky will take charge of the SDSU winter wheat breeding program Sept. 2.

Berzonsky comes to SDSU after serving as an associate professor at NDSU, where he led the specialty spring wheat breeding program. He also served as a leader with the Ohio State University's winter wheat breeding program and as a research agronomist in the winter wheat and oat breeding program at Purdue University.

After he received his bachelor's degree in botany from the University of Maryland, Berzonsky completed a master's degree in plant sciences at the University of Delaware. He received his doctorate in agronomy at the University of Missouri in 1988.

He is the co-author of two book chapters, and has co-authored or authored the release of 23 wheat germplasm lines. Berzonsky was a member of the U.S. Wheat Associate breeding teams that toured Asian and Latin American countries to assess the wheat quality requirements of buyers of U.S. located in those countries.

Source: SDSU AgBio Communications