Source: FARM PROGRESS, 5/28/20


Jim Holland, a U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service plant breeder and geneticist who is based in North Carolina  State University’s Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, has spent the past two decades studying genetic variation of corn, or maize, to improve its agronomic traits. Recently, he received the international Maize Genetics Executive Committee’s 2020 L. Stadler Mid-Career Maize Genetics Award for his research on maize genetics. He answered a few questions from N.C. State science writer Mollie Rappe.

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