Genetics, Genomics, and Breeding of Soybean

Kristin Bilyeu received a B.S. degree in Biochemistry from the University of Missouri and a PhD in Cell and Molecular Biology from Baylor College of Medicine. Since 2003, she has been a Research Molecular Biologist with the USDA/ARS Plant Genetics Research Unit on the University of Missouri campus in Columbia, Missouri. Milind B. Ratnaparkhe received PhD in Biochemistry from National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India and is presently affiliated with University of Georgia, Athens. He has over fifteen years of research experience in plant genomics and biotechnology. His major research contributions have been in the areas of genome mapping, molecular breeding, comparative and functional genomics of grain legumes and fruit crops.