Brett Carver
Regents Professor of Plant and Soil Sciences
2002
Brett Carver holds the Wheat Genetics Chair in Agriculture and is a Fellow of the
American Society of Agronomy and the Crop Science Society of America. He leads the
OSU Wheat Improvement Team in its charge to develop and release winter wheat cultivars
custom-fit for the Oklahoma wheat industry. His research interests span numerous trait
systems crucial to wheat production and marketing, including grazing adaptation, tolerance
to soil acidity, disease resistance, and gluten quality. Other research interests
include optimization and empirical measurement of genetic gains. Breeding methods
incorporate field and laboratory procedures which enable accurate assessment of both
phenotype and genotype. Cultivars released thus far include the hard white cultivars,
Intrada, Guymon, and OK Rising, and the hard red winter wheat cultivars Ok101, Ok102,
Endurance, Deliver, OK Bullet, Duster, Okfield, Centerfield, Billings, Pete, Garrison,
and Ruby Lee. Graduate students from Dr. Carver’s program are prepared for plant breeding
research in the public or private sector.
