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Wheat Breeder with @Bayer4CropsUS. CSU Ram and WSU Coug. Bread is my favorite food, and wheat is my life.

Pullman, WA
Joined November 2018
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Nikayla Strauss, PhD retweeted
The NAPB Early Career Working Group is accepting new members for the Mentorship Circle Program, which creates groups of diverse individuals ranging from graduate students to established and experienced professionals.Fill out the form below to get started docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
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Got the chance to appreciate genetic diversity in cucurbits at the local pumpkin patch 🤓
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Great first day at @NAPlantBreeders 2022! Took a break from wheat and saw the history of corn, it was so cool to see teosinte in the field (far left) 🌽
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Oh no! Am I getting a soft spot for North Dakota?! 😲 Or am I just a sucker for a pretty wheat field 🤔
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Taken last week in the Palouse. It just doesn't get better than this 💚
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I couldn't get married without having wheat at the wedding! Happy to be Dr. Dill now 🌾
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PhDone!! Officially Dr. Strauss and it feels so good! Thank you @clubwheat @wsuwheat, Mike Puphrey, and Scot Hulbert 😁
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Check out this read on my incredible PhD advisor 🤩
“In the world of wheat, Kim Campbell is unique. She is the only breeder in the world who focuses on club wheat” | bit.ly/3D2mIhY via @capitalpress #wheatnews #capitalpress #WAwheat #research #wheatbreeding
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Nikayla Strauss, PhD retweeted
Castella wheat has excellent milling and baking properties - including superior sponge cake volume - and will increase the quality of the club wheat crop in the PNW doi.org/10.1002/plr2.20132 #OpenAccess #wheatbreeding @USDA_ARS @WSUPullman @wsucahnrs 📸: Kimberly Garland Campbell
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It's always a good day when I get to spray some wheat 😁
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Today was my first day as a Scientist at Bayer Crop Science! I've been working towards this day for 9 years. Needless to say, it feels pretty darn good 😎 @Bayer4Crops
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Finished another fusarium crown rot screening last week! A very difficult disease to photograph.
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Just finished teaching kindergarten students at Bannockburn Elementary School in Illinois about how wheat goes from 🚜farm ➡️ table 🍞 If you're interested in opportunities like this, sign up for @skypeascientist!
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Feeling good about this coming field season now that we're vaccinated!!
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Nikayla Strauss, PhD retweeted
Learn more in this video and at bit.ly/3qQMX4v about how the journey of #wheat to food tables around the world begins in a scientific facility. #USWheat #wheatbreeding @uswheatassoc
I've become a nematode hunter 🕵️
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I could never thank this man enough for everything he and his team did for me 💚 A well deserved retirement
We are beyond thankful for Dr. Scott Haley's contributions to the wheat industry, and wish him the best in retirement! buff.ly/3mRjvcI
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Nikayla Strauss, PhD retweeted
Stingray CL+ soft white winter #wheat is a two‐gene Beyond‐tolerant semi‐dwarf cultivar adapted for the high rainfall wheat production regions of Washington doi.org/10.1002/plr2.20109 @wsucahnrs @USDA_ARS
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Nikayla Strauss, PhD retweeted
Aegilops tauschii is the donor of the non A or B genome of hexaploid wheat. Yet is has the dominant non-free-threshing allele. Which makes it... the tenacious D genome.
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