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Curriculum vitae (pdf)

Education

Ph.D., Washington State University, Crop Science, 2009
M.S., University of Idaho, Plant Science, 2006
B.S., University of Idaho, Plant Science, 2003

Research

I lead the winter wheat breeding and genetics program at Washington State University. My research is directed toward breeding improved wheat varieties for cropping systems in Washington state that incorporate diverse rotations and environments. Our goal is to release high-yielding, disease resistant varieties with good end-use quality  that will maintain profitability and reduce the risk to growers. New varieties are developed using a combination of traditional plant breeding methods, molecular marker technology, and biotechnology. Research efforts include identifying genetic solutions to winter wheat production problems, thereby enhancing the sustainability of the Washington wheat industry. Farmer participation is utilized in the development of new varieties and in research planning. Current research topics involve developing water-use efficient wheat, adaptation of sensor based technology into wheat breeding programs, genetic understanding of end-use quality in wheat, and identification of new genes for stripe rust resistance.

Released Cultivars (pdf)

• Inspire
• Gemini
• Rollie
• Jameson
• Nova AX
• Windust
• Sockeye CL+ (pdf)
• Piranha CL+ (pdf)
• Castella (pdf)
• Scorpio (pdf)
• Devote (pdf)
• Pritchett (pdf)
• Stingray CL+ (pdf)
• Resilience CL+ (pdf)
• Purl (pdf)
• Jasper (pdf)
• Curiosity CL+ (pdf)
• Mela CL+ (pdf)
• Puma (pdf)
• Otto (pdf)
• Sequoia (pdf)
• Sprinter
• Earl

For more information about cultivars, please visit Washington Genetics. 

Teaching Activities:

Instruction/Classes

• Crop Science 445, Plant Breeding, 4 credits, Spring Semester (even years), Instructor, Washington State University.
• Crop Science 435, Interdisciplinary Solutions in Plant Science [CAPS], 3 credits, Spring Semester (odd years), Instructor, Washington State University.
• Crop Science 498, Research Internship, 1-3 credits, Instructor, Washington State University.
• Crop Science 512, Field Plant Breeding, 3 credits, Summer/Fall Semester, Instructor, Washington State University.

Publications

Publications last 4 years, names in italics indicate graduate student or post-doctoral authors:

1. Sangjan W, Carter AH, Pumphrey MO, Hagemeyer K, Jitkov V, Sankaran S (2023) Effect of high-resolution satellite and UAV imagery plot pixel resolution in wheat crop yield prediction. International Journal of Remote Sensing. Submitted
2. Valencia-Ortiz M, McGee RJ, Carter AH, Sankaran S (2023) Role of radiometric correction as a function of UAV flight altitude and photogrammetry software on vegetation indices for crop monitoring. International Journal of Remote Sensing. Submitted
3. Thompson YA, Carter AH, Ward BP, Kiszonas AM, Morris CF (2023) Leveraging relatedness: genomic selection of soft white wheat cake quality using a historic database. Crop Science. In Revision
4. Herr AW, Adak A, Carroll ME, Elango D. Kar S, Li C, Jones AE, Carter AH, Murray SC, Paterson A, Sankaran S, Singh A, Singh AK (2023) UAS imagery for phenotyping in cotton, maize, soybean, and wheat breeding. Crop Science 63:1722-1749 doi:10.1002/csc2.21028
5. Herr AW, Carter AH (2023) A comparison of HTP platforms and potential challenges with field applications. Frontiers in Plant Science 14:1233892 doi:10.3389/fpls.2023.1233892
6. Dixon LS, Bellinger B, Carter AH (2023) A gravimetric method to monitor plant transpiration under water stress conditions. The Plant Phenome Journal 6:e20078 doi:10.1002/ppj2.20078
7. Chen C-PJ, Hu Y, Li X, Cannon A, Morris C, Delwhiche S, Carter A, Steber C, Zhang Z (2023) An independent validation reveals the potential to predict Hagberg-Perten falling number using spectrometers. The Plant Phenome Journal 6:e20070 doi:10.1002/ppj2.20070
8. Montesinos-Lopez OA, Herr AW, Crossa J, Carter AH (2023) Genomics combined with UAS data enhances prediction of grain yield in winter wheat. Frontiers in Genetics 14:1124218 doi:10.3389/fgene.2023.1124218
9. Phipps SN, Burke AB, Balow KA, Murray TD, Carter AH (2023) Registration of the PI 173438/WA 8137 Wheat Doubled Haploid Mapping Population. Journal of Plant Registrations 17:214-221 doi:10.1002/plr2.20228
10. Tang Z, Wang M, Schirrmann M, Dammer K-H, Li X, Brueggeman R, Sankaran S, Carter AH, Pumphrey M, Hu Y, Chen X, Zhang Z (2023) Affordable high throughput field detections of wheat stripe rust using deep learning based with semi-automatic image labeling. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture 207:107709 doi:10.1016/j.compag.2023.107709
11. Montesinos-Lopez OA, Carter AH, Sandoval DAB, Cano-Paez B, Montesinos-Lopez A, Crossa J (2022) A comparison between three tuning strategies for Gaussian kernels in the context of univariate genomic prediction. Genes 13(12) doi:10.3390/genes13122282
12. Lopez S, Wiersma A, Strauss N, Watkins T, Baik B-K, Zhang G, Sehgal S, Kolb F, Poland J, Mason E, Carter A, Olsen E (2023) Description of U6719-004 wheat germplasm with YrAS2388R stripe rust resistance introgression from Aegilops tauschii. Journal of Plant Registrations 17:26-33 doi:10.1002/plr2.20226
13. Phipps SN, Burke AB, Balow KA, Murray TD, Carter AH (2022) Identification of snow mold tolerance QTL in a landrace winter wheat using linkage mapping. Crop Science 62:1415-1429 doi:10.1002/csc2.20745
14. Aoun M, Carter AH, Morris CF (2022) Genetic architecture of end-use quality traits in soft white winter wheat. BMC Genomics 23:440 doi:10.1186/s12864-022-08676-5
15. Running K, Momotaz A, Kariyawasam G, Zurn J, Pozniak C, Acevedo M, Carter AH, Liu Z, Faris J (2022) Genomic analysis and delineation of the tan spot susceptibility locus Tsc1 in wheat. Frontiers in Plant Science 13:793925 doi:10.3389/fpls.2022.793925
16. Merrick LF, Herr AW, Sandhu KS, Lozada DN, Carter AH (2022) Optimizing plant breeding programs for genomic selection. Agronomy 12:714 doi:10.3390/agronomy12030714
17. Merrick LF, Herr AW, Sandhu KS, Lozada DN, Carter AH (2022) Utilizing genomic selection for wheat population development and improvement. Agronomy 12:522 doi:10.3390/agronomy12020522
18. Garland-Campbell K, Bellinger BS, Carter AH, Chen X, DeMacon P, Engle D, Hagerty CH, Kiszonas A, Klarquist E, Murray TD, Morris C, Neely C, Odubiyi S, Rashad A, See D, Steber CM, Wen N (2022) Registration of ‘Cameo’ soft white winter club wheat. Journal of Plant Registrations 16:585-596 doi:10.1002/plr2.20234
19. Zemetra RS, Phipps SN, Kohler T, Burke AB, Carter AH (2022) Registration of the Coda/Brundage wheat recombinant inbred line mapping population. Journal of Plant Registrations 16:176-184 doi:10.1002/plr2.20147
20. He F, Wang W, Rutter WB, Jordan KW, Ren J, Taagen E, DeWitt N, Sehgal D, Sukumaran S, Driesigacker S, Reynolds M, Liu S, Chen J, Fritz A, Cook J, Brown-Guedira G, Pumphrey M, Carter A, Sorrells M, Dubcovsky J, Hayden MJ, Akhunov A, Morrell PL, Szabo L, Rouse M, Akhunov E (2022) The landscape of genetic effects on gene expression levels in allopolyploid wheat reveals the impact of homoeologous gene dysregulation on agronomic traits. Nature Communications 13:826 doi:10.1038/s41467-022-28453-y
21. Merrick LF, Lozada DN, Chen X, Carter AH (2022) Classification and regression models for genomic selection of skewed phenotypes: a case for disease resistance in winter wheat (Triticum aestivum ). Frontiers in Genetics 13:835781 doi:10.3389/fgene.2022.835781
22. Merrick LF, Zhang Z, Burke AB, Carter AH (2022) Comparison of Single-Trait and Multi-Trait Genome-Wide Association Models and Inclusion of Correlated Traits in the Dissection of the Genetic Architecture of a Complex Trait in a Breeding Program. Frontiers in Plant Science doi:10.3389/fpls.2021.772907
23. Sandhu KS, Patil S, Aoun M, Morris C, Carter AH (2022) Multi-trait multi-environment genomic prediction for end-use quality traits in winter wheat. Frontiers in Genetics 13:831020 org/10.3389/fgene.2022.831020
24. Sandhu KS, Merrick LF, Sankaran S, Zhang Z, Carter AH (2022) Prospectus of genomic selection and high throughput phenotyping in cereal, legume, and oilseed breeding programs: a review. Frontiers in Genetics 12:829131 org/10.3389/fgene.2021.829131
25. Jordan KW, Bradury PJ, Miller Z, Nyine M, He F, Fraser M, Anderson J, Mason E, Katz A, Pearce S, Carter A, Prather S, Pumphrey M, Chen J, Cook J, Liu S, Rudd J, Wang Z, Chu C, Ibrahim AM, Turkus J, Olson E, Nagarajan R, Yan L, Taagen E, Sorrells M, Ward B, Ren J, Akhunova A, Bowden R, Fiedler J, Faris J, Dubcovsky J, Guttieri M, Brown-Guedira G, Buckler E, Jannink J-L, Akhunov ED (2021) Development of the wheat practical haplotype graph database as a resource for genotyping data storage and genotype imputation. Genes|Genomes|Genetics org/10.1093/g3journal/jkab390
26. Sandhu KS, Mihalyov PD, Lewien MJ, Pumphrey MO, Carter AH (2021) Grain protein content stability and genomic selection for predicting grain protein content in wheat. Agronomy 11:2528 org/10.3390/agronomy11122528
27. Merrick LF, Carter AH (2021) Comparison of genomic selection models for exploring predictive ability of complex traits in breeding programs. The Plant Genome 14:3 e20158 org/10.1002/tpg2.20158
28. Aoun M, Carter AH, Thompson Y, Ward BP, Morris CF (2021) Environment characterization and genomic prediction for end-use quality traits in soft white winter wheat. The Plant Genome 14:3 e20128 org/10.1002/tpg2.20128
29. Sandhu KS, Patil SS, Pumphrey MO, Carter AH (2021) Multi-trait machine and deep learning models for genomic selection using spectral information in a wheat breeding program. The Plant Genome 14:3 e20119 org/10.1002/tpg2.20119 2023 Outstanding Paper-Original Research
30. Kumar A, Mir R, Sehgal D, Agarwal P, Carter A (2021) Genetics and genomics to enhance crop production, towards food security. Editorial in Frontiers in Genetics 12:798308 org/10.3389/fgene.2021.798308
31. Sandhu KS, Aoun M, Morris CF, Carter AH (2021) Genomic selection for end-use quality and processing traits in soft white winter wheat breeding program with machine and deep learning models. Biology 10, 689 doi.org/10.3390/biology10070689
32. Aoun M, Carter AH, Ward B, Morris CF (2021) Genome-wide association mapping of the ‘super soft’ kernel texture in white winter wheat. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 134:2547-2559 doi:10.1007/s00122-021-03841-y
33. Merrick LF, Burke AB, Chen X, Carter AH (2021) Breeding with major and minor genes: Genomic selection for quantitative disease resistance. Frontiers in Plant Science doi:10.3389/fpls.2021.713667
34. Rodriguez J, Hauvermale A, Carter AH, Burke IC (2021) An ALA₁₂₂THR substitution in the AHAS/ALS gene confers imazamox-resistance in jointed goatgrass (Aegilops cylindrica ). Pest Management Science 77:4583-4592
35. Sangjan W, Carter AH, Pumphrey PO, Jitkov V, Sankaran S (2021) Development of sensor system for the Internet of Things (IoT)-based automated in-field monitoring to support crop breeding programs. Inventions 6:42 doi.org/10.3390/inventions6020042
36. Thompson YA, Carter AH, Ward BP, Kiszonas AM, Morris CF (2021) Association mapping of sponge cake volume in U.S. Pacific Northwest elite soft white wheat (Triticum aestivum). Journal of Cereal Science 100:103250 doi.org/10.1016/j.jcs.2021.103250
37. Lozada DN, Carter AH, Mason RE (2021) Unlocking yield potential of wheat: influence of major growth habit and adaptation genes. Crop Breeding, Genetics and Genomics 3:e210004.
38. Horgan A, Garland-Campbell KA, Carter AH, Steber CM (2021) Seedling elongation responses to gibberellin seed treatments in wheat. Agrosystems, Geosciences, and Environment 4:1-13 doi:10.1002/agg2.20144
39. Garland-Campbell K, Allan RE, Carter AH, DeMacon P, Klarquist E, Wen N, Chen X, Steber CM, Morris C, See D, Esser A, Engle D, Higginbotham R, Mundt C, Murray TD (2021) Registration of ‘Castella’ soft white winter club wheat. Journal of Plant Registrations 15:504-514 doi:10.1002/plr2.20132
40. Strauss NM, Wiersma A, DeMacon P, Klarquist E, Carter AH, Garland-Campbell KA, Olson E (2021) Registration of the Wheat D-Genome Nested Association Mapping Population. Journal of Plant Registrations 15:215-222 doi:10.1002/plr2.20078
41. Gill KS, Kumar N, Randhawa HS, Murphy K, Carter AH, Morris CF, Higginbotham RW, Engle DA, Guy SO, Lyon D, Murray TD, Chen XM, Schillinger WF (2021) Registration of ‘Resilience CL+’ soft white winter wheat. Journal of Plant Registrations 15:196-205 doi:10.1002/plr2.20118
42. Carter AH, Balow KA, Shelton GB, Burke AB, Hagemeyer KE, Stowe A, Worapong J, Higginbotham RW, Chen XM, Engle DA, Murray TD, Morris CF (2021) Registration of ‘Stingray CL+’ soft white winter wheat. Journal of Plant Registrations 15:161-171 doi:10.1002/plr2.20109
43. Carter AH, Balow KA, Shelton GB, Burke AB, Hagemeyer KE, Stowe A, Worapong J, Higginbotham RW, Chen XM, Engle DA, Murray TD, Morris CF (2021) Registration of ‘Devote’ soft white winter wheat. Journal of Plant Registrations 15:121-131 doi:10.1002/plr2.20079
44. Carter AH, Balow KA, Shelton GB, Burke AB, Hagemeyer KE, Stowe A, Worapong J, Higginbotham RW, Chen XM, Engle DA, Murray TD, Morris CF (2021) Registration of ‘Scorpio’ hard red winter wheat. Journal of Plant Registrations 15:113-120 doi:10.1002/plr2.20076
45. Sandhu KS, Mihalyov PD, Lewien MJ, Pumphrey MO, Carter AH (2021) Combining genomic and phenomic information for predicting grain protein content and grain yield in spring wheat. Frontiers in Plant Science 12:613300 doi:10.3389/fpls.2021.613300
46. Sjoberg SM, Carter AH, Steber C, Garland-Campbell KA (2021) Application of the factor analytic model to assess wheat falling number performance and stability in multi-environment trials. Crop Science 61:372-382 doi:10.1002/csc2.20293
47. Sandhu KS, Lozada DN, Zhang Z, Pumphrey MO, Carter AH (2021) Deep learning for predicting complex traits in spring wheat. Frontiers in Plant Science 11:613325 doi:10.3389/fpls.2020.613325
48. Merrick LF, Lyon SR, Balow KA, Murphy KM, Jones SS, Carter AH (2020) Evolutionary plant breeding in a conventional winter wheat breeding program. Sustainability 12:9728. Doi:10.3390/su12229728
49. Sjoberg, SM, Carter AH, Steber CM, Garland-Campbell KA (2020) Unravelling complex traits in wheat: approaches for analyzing genotype by environment interactions in a multi-environment study of falling numbers. Crop Science 60:3013-3026 doi:1002/csc2.20133
50. Kruse EB, Revolinski S, Aplin J, Skinner DZ, Murray TD, Edwards C, Carter AH (2020) Gene Expression and Carbohydrate Accumulation in Winter Wheat Lines with Different Levels of Snow Mold and Freezing Cold Tolerance. Plants 9:1416 doi:10.3390/plants9111416

51. Carter AH, Allan RE, Shelton G, Burke A, Balow K, Hagemeyer K, Chen XM, Engle D, Garland-Campbell KA, Morris C, Murray T, Paulitz T, Clare SJ, Klarquist EF (2020) How ‘Madsen’ has shaped Pacific Northwest wheat and beyond. Journal of Plant Registrations 14:223-233 doi:10.1002/plr2.20049 Selected featured article in the September 2020 CSA News
52. Carter AH, Rath BB, Gorzkowski EP, Qadri SB (2020) Evaluation of Silica content in winter wheat chaff. Agriculture and Environmental Letters 5:e20025 doi:10.1002/ael2.20025
53. Lozada DN, Ward BP, Carter AH (2020) Gains through selection for grain yield in a winter wheat breeding program. PLoS ONE 15(4):e0221603 doi:10.1370/journal.pone.0221603
54. Lozada DN, Carter AH (2020) Genomic selection in winter wheat breeding using a recommender approach. Genes 11:779 doi:10.3390/genes11070779
55. Lozada DN and Carter AH (2020) Insights into the genetic architecture of phenotypic stability traits in winter wheat. Agronomy 10:368 doi:10.3390/agronomy10030368
56. Carter AH, Kidwell KK, DeMacon V, Shelton G, Burke A, Balow K, Herr A (2020) Registration of ‘Louise’/‘Penawawa’ Spring Wheat Recombinant Inbred Line Mapping Population. Journal of Plant Registrations 14:474-480 doi:10.1002/plr2.20077
57. Carter AH, Balow KA, Shelton GB, Burke AB, Hagemeyer K, Worapong J, Higginbotham RW, Chen XM, Engle DA, Murray TD, Morris CF (2020) Registration of ‘Purl’ soft white winter wheat. Journal of Plant Registrations 14:398-405 doi:10.1002/plr2.20069
58. Gill KS, Kumar N, Randhawa HS, Carter AH, Yenish J, Morris CF, Baik B, Higginbotham RW, Guy SO, Engle DA, Chen XM, Murray TD, Burke IC, Lyon D (2020) Registration of ‘Curiosity CL+’ soft white winter wheat. Journal of Plant Registrations 14:377-387 doi:10.1002/plr2.20066
59. Gill KS, Kumar N, Randhawa HS, Carter AH, Yenish J, Morris CF, Baik B-K, Higginbotham RW, Guy SO, Engle DA, Chen XM, Murray TD, Lyon D (2020) Registration of ‘Mela CL+’ soft white winter wheat. Journal of Plant Registrations 14:144-152 doi:10.1002/plr2.20006
60. Nazarov T, Chen X, Carter A, See D. (2020) Fine mapping of high-temperature adult-plant resistance to stripe rust in wheat cultivar Louise. Journal of Plant Protection Research 60:126-133 doi:10.24425/jppr.2020.132213
61. Faris F, Overlander ME, Kariyawasam GK, Carter AH, Xu SS, Liu Z (2020) Identification of a major dominant gene for race-nonspecific tan spot resistance in wild emmer wheat. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 133:829-841 org/10.1007/s00122-019-03509-8

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