Dr. Mary Guttieri is a Research Geneticist in the USDA-ARS Hard Winter Wheat Genetics Research Unit located in the Center for Grain and Animal Health Research in Manhattan, Kansas. She also serves as Lead Scientist for the research unit. Dr. Guttieri leads a research program that develops and deploys improved hard winter wheat germplasm to address economically important challenges of wheat production on the Great Plains of the United States. The program places an emphasis on pre-breeding activities that provide useful breeding parents and associated genetic information to commercially-focused winter wheat breeding programs.
Dr. Guttieri's research program prioritizes the following challenges: durable resistance to stripe rust, resistance to mite-vectored viruses, pyramids of genes for resistance to aggressive races of stem rust, and genetic resistance to wheat stem sawfly. The research program also has research to address Fusarium head scab resistance, Hessian fly resistance, leaf rust resistance, and barley yellow dwarf virus resistance. Dr. Guttieri's research interests include nutritional quality traits and rapid screening methodologies for end-use quality evaluation. Dr. Guttieri's laboratory is equipped for high throughput marker genotyping to support efficient trait introgression.
Dr. Guttieri's research team has a substantial commitment to applied field research. Her program coordinates the regional nursery for wheat stem sawfly resistance. Her team also executes field screening nurseries for resistance to wheat stripe rust, leaf rust, and stem rust, as well as a virus screening nursery in western Kansas.
In Dr. Guttieri's collaborative efforts with the Wheat Genetics Resource Center, she has developed a library of nearly 2,000 wild emmer introgression lines in hard winter wheat backgrounds. The mining of this germplasm resource for useful traits, including drought tolerance and high temperature stress tolerance, wheat stem sawfly resistance, end use quality characteristics, and resistance to wheat rusts and Fusarium head blight.Mary Guttieri
Dr. Mary Guttieri is a Research Geneticist in the USDA-ARS Hard Winter Wheat Genetics Research Unit located in the Center for Grain and Animal Health Research in Manhattan, Kansas. She also serves as Lead Scientist for the research unit. Dr. Guttieri leads a research program that develops and deploys improved hard winter wheat germplasm to address economically important challenges of wheat production on the Great Plains of the United States. The program places an emphasis on pre-breeding activities that provide useful breeding parents and associated genetic information to commercially-focused winter wheat breeding programs.
Dr. Guttieri's research program prioritizes the following challenges: durable resistance to stripe rust, resistance to mite-vectored viruses, pyramids of genes for resistance to aggressive races of stem rust, and genetic resistance to wheat stem sawfly. The research program also has research to address Fusarium head scab resistance, Hessian fly resistance, leaf rust resistance, and barley yellow dwarf virus resistance. Dr. Guttieri's research interests include nutritional quality traits and rapid screening methodologies for end-use quality evaluation. Dr. Guttieri's laboratory is equipped for high throughput marker genotyping to support efficient trait introgression.
Dr. Guttieri's research team has a substantial commitment to applied field research. Her program coordinates the regional nursery for wheat stem sawfly resistance. Her team also executes field screening nurseries for resistance to wheat stripe rust, leaf rust, and stem rust, as well as a virus screening nursery in western Kansas.
In Dr. Guttieri's collaborative efforts with the Wheat Genetics Resource Center, she has developed a library of nearly 2,000 wild emmer introgression lines in hard winter wheat backgrounds. The mining of this germplasm resource for useful traits, including drought tolerance and high temperature stress tolerance, wheat stem sawfly resistance, end use quality characteristics, and resistance to wheat rusts and Fusarium head blight.
