Source: NCSU COLLEGE OF AG & LIFE SCIENCES, 7/12/22

Ramsey Lewis, a professor in the Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, is nationally and internationally recognized as a leading tobacco researcher. His research focuses on tobacco genetics and breeding. Specifically, he’s taking advantage of biological features of tobacco plants to develop and study improved breeding methodologies and  understand the genetic control of plant chemistry traits and pathogen resistance. 

For his outstanding achievements in plant breeding, Lewis has been named the Dr. Charles W. Stuber Sr. and Marilyn M. Stuber Distinguished Professor in Plant Breeding. Charles Stuber, who began his career at North Carolina State University in 1965, is considered a pioneer of quantitative genetic mapping and marker-assisted selection in maize. His work helped to create some of the foundations for modern plant breeding.

“One reason for setting up this professorship is just to provide support to make sure that plant breeding carries on as well as it has at NC State,” says Stuber.

“It’s an honor to have a title named after Charles Stuber, who has had such a large impact on plant breeding in general. And it’s also neat that we’re both from rural Nebraska,” says Lewis, who grew up in a small agricultural community.

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