Jessica Rutkoski, winner of the Jeanie Borlaug Laube Women in Triticum prize 2010

Jessica Rutkoski is a first year Plant Breeding PhD student in the laboratory of Mark Sorrells at Cornell University. In St. Petersburg, Jessica will present her preliminary work using genomic selection methods to incorporate Adult Plant Resistance to Stem Rust in Adapted Germplasm. She is one of five winners of the inaugural Jeanie Borlaug Laube Women in Triticum prize. Recoded and edited by Liz Clarke, ICARDA