text: Plant Stress and Physiology
  Advancing technologies to address threats to vegetable production in Texas and beyond
  Conventional and modern methods for resilient vegetable production in Texas
  Vegetable production in Texas is threatened by high pressure of endemic or new pests and diseases that severely limit production and quality. The vegetable-breeding program is combining conventional breeding and modern molecular methods to develop high-yield, heat-tolerant, disease- and pest-resistant, high-quality tomato and spinach cultivars for the region.
  Program faculty and staff
  Dr. Carlos Avila
  Associate Professor, Principle Investigator