Dr. Matthew W. Blair is Full Professor of Plant Breeding and Genetics at Tennessee State University in the Department of Agricultural Sciences. Dr. Blair graduated from Cornell University (PhD in Plant Breeding and BSc-Dean's List in Plant Science) and University of Puerto Rico (MS in Agronomy). His experience is in public and private sector breeding programs at Asgrow, CGIAR, TSU, UPR-M, and Univ. Nacional. Dr. Blair is interested in investigating the genetic potential of crop plants in legume and other families to the stresses of importance in production agriculture. Lately, he has explored abiotic stress tolerance and genetic diversity in various legumes and in the pseudo-cereal, grain amaranths. HTTPS://WWW.TNSTATE.EDU/AGRICULTURE/RESUMES/MATTHEW_BLAIR.ASPX