Award for our educational coordinator!
Shannon Baker, who coordinates the educational component of the WheatCAP, and holds a position of Assistant Research Scientist at Texas A&M AgriLife Research received the Jeanie Borlaug Laube WIT Early Career Award for her integrated work in aerial phenotyping, data analytics and classical breeding applied to wheat improvement in drought-prone and irrigated production environments. The award also recognized her role leading educational and training activities for our project.
Our warm congratulations to Shannon!
Meet our students
As in the previous collaborative projects, one of our main goals is to contribute to the formation of the next generation of breeders. Here you can meet the WheatCAP graduate students and learn about their lines of research.
The Plant Breeding Training Network and other tutorials, workshops
The Plant Breeding Training Network (PBTN) is a platform for sharing breeding-related educational materials (videos, webinars, online courses). The PBTN was built on infrastructure funded by NSF and it was created as part of our previous collaborative project, TriticeaeCAP. Now we continue supporting it through WheatCAP.
On the PBTN website you can find most of the educational contents created by our project. Below you will find some direct links to featured contents and to workshops that were not listed in the PBTN.
Data to Science (D2S): UAS-based High Throughput Phenotyping Analysis for Plant Breeding Programs Presented by: Dr. Jinha Jung
(November 2025 in person WheatCAP workshop)
Recent advances in sensor technology have revolutionized the assessment of crop health by providing fine spatial and high temporal resolutions at affordable costs. As plant scientists gain access to increasingly larger volumes of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) and satellite High Throughput Phenotyping (HTP) data, there is a growing need to extract biologically informative and quantitative phenotypic information from the vast amount of freely available geospatial data. However, the lack of specialized software packages tailored for processing such data makes it challenging to develop transdisciplinary research collaborations around these data. This workshop aimed to bridge the gap between big data and agricultural research scientists by providing training on an open-source online platform for managing big UAS HTP data known as Data to Science. Additionally, attendees were introduced to linking D2S with BreedBase via BraAPI. By participating in this workshop, attendees acquired the skills necessary to efficiently search, visualize, and analyze geospatial data within a Jupyter environment, even with minimal coding experience. The workshop provided a hands-on learning experience through practical examples and interactive exercises, enabling participants to enhance their proficiency and gain valuable insights into leveraging geospatial data for agricultural research purposes.
Below you can find the links to the recordings of this workshop in YouTube:
- Part 1: https://youtu.be/8hNpBsJgs0A
- Part 2: https://youtu.be/i__vhdMOeT4
- Part 3: https://youtu.be/b8rkatwr_-s
- Part 4: https://youtu.be/A4nJcYEefvk
The 2023 T3/Breedbase Online Workshop
- workshop recordings
- How to download phenotypic data from T3 (YouTube)
T3/Breedbase Databases
- T3/Wheat Production - https://wheat.triticeaetoolbox.org
- T3/Wheat Sandbox - https://wheat-sandbox.triticeaetoolbox.org
- T3/WheatCAP - https://wheatcap.triticeaetoolbox.org
- Github repository
The 2023 Genomic Selection Workshop (PBTN link)
Wheat CAP Functional Genomics Workshop
(KSU, Manhattan, KS, Aug. 5-9 2024). You can get the presentations slides and code of the workshop here.
Breeding for improved wheat quality and nutritional value (seminar, not in PBTN)
Replay the seminar at AggieVideo.
Get the PowerPoint slides here.
UAS workshops (not in PBNT)
There are no digital editions available of the Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Manual. Hard copies can be purchased from AgriLife Learn. We have a limited number of physical copies from Texas A&M, if you are part of the WheatCAP, email Justin Faris to request one.
How to convert Julian dates to DAP in MS-Excel (YouTube)
Introduction to the Practical Haplotype Graph (PHG) Workshop (not in PBTN)
On July 9 2019 we had a workshop at Cornell University on building and using Practical Haplotype Graphs (PHG). This is a computational technique to infer the haplotype of progeny lines sequenced at low coverage from the haplotype of a few parents sequenced at high coverage. Below you can download two of the workshop presentations.
Annual Graduate Student Survey
See the results of the Annual Graduate Surveys: