Walter Fehr

Soybean Breeding

Soybean breeding research is conducted for genetic modification of seed yield; resistance to brown stem rot, soybean cyst nematode, and Phtophthora rot; and traits for food products including small seed size, large seed size, high protein, altered palmitate, stearate, oleate, linoleate, linolenate, and reduced lipoxygenase.

Education:

B.S. (Agronomy), 1961 , University of Minnesota
M.S. (Agronomy and Plant Genetics), 1962 , University of Minnesota
Ph.D. (Plant Breeding and Genetics), 1967 , Iowa State University