Paul Gepts
Professor of Agronomy and Geneticist
plgepts@ucdavis.edu

Plant Science

Office
1242 Plant and Environmental Sciences
752-7743



 
Degrees:
1985 PhD University of Wisconsin Plant Breeding and Plant Genetics
Awards:
Distinguished Achievement Award, Bean Improvement Cooperative, 1991
Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2001
Professional Societies:
American Association for the Advancement of Science,
American Society of Agronomy
Crop Science Society of America
Society for Economic Botany
American Society for Horticultural Science
CBS Graduate Group Affiliations:
Genetics  
Graduate Groups not Housed in CBS:
Ecology, International Agricultural Development, and Horticulture and Agronomy  
Publications:
  • Miklas PE, Johnson WC, Delorme R, and P Gepts. 2001. Identification of QTL conditioning physiological resistance and avoidance to white mold in dry bean. Crop Science. 41:309-315
  • Yu K, Park SJ, Poysa V, and P Gepts. 2000. Integration of simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers into a molecular linkage map of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.). Journal of Heredity. 91:429-434
  • Geffroy V, Sévignac M, De Oliveira JCF, Fouilloux G, Skroch P, Thoquet P, Gepts P, Langin T, and M Dron M. 2000. Inheritance of partial resistance against Colletotrichum lindemuthianum in Phaseolus vulgaris and co-localization of QTL with genes involved in specific resistance. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 13, 287-296.
  • Gepts P. 2002. A comparison between crop domestication, classical plant breeding, and genetic engineering. Crop Sci. 42: 1780-1790.
  • Gepts P. 2002. Ten thousand years of crop evolution. In: M. Chrispeels and D. Sadava (eds.), Plants, Genes, and Crop Biotechnology (2nd ed.). Bartlett and Jones, Sudbury, MA; Chapter 13: pp. 328-359
  • McClean PE, Lee R, Otto C, Gepts P, Bassett MJ. 2002. STS and RAPD mapping of genes controlling seed coat color and patterning in common bean. J. Hered 93: 148-152.
Teaching Interests:
Crop evolution. Mendelian genetics.
Courses:
PLB 143 Evolution of Crop Plants Spring