Editors

Walter Suza

Walter P. Suza is the George Washington Carver Endowed Chair and an Adjunct Associate Professor at Iowa State University. His research explores the metabolism and physiology of plant sterols, and he teaches courses on Genetics and Crop Physiology in the Department of Agronomy. In addition to co-developing courses for ISU’s Distance Master’s in Plant Breeding Program, he served for eight years as the director of Plant Breeding E-Learning in Africa (PBEA), expanding access to open educational resources on crop genetic improvement. In 2024, he received the World Food Prize Top Agri-Food Pioneer Award. Suza has worked in central and southern Africa, including with the World Food Programme in Angola and the United Nations Children’s Fund in Zimbabwe, focusing on food security assessment, mapping vulnerable households, drought assessment, and coordinating food aid. He holds a Ph.D. in plant sciences, specializing in molecular physiology, from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Kendall Lamkey

Lamkey is the Associate Dean for Facilities and Operations for the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Iowa State University. He works in collaboration with the dean, associate deans, department chairs, college-level centers, and other unit leaders to ensure that operations directly advance the mission of the college and that resources are deployed wisely and efficiently. Previously, he served as the chair for the Department of Agronomy at Iowa State University, where, in addition to advocating for research and the PBEA program, he oversaw the Agronomy Department’s educational direction, its faculty, and Agronomy Extension and Outreach. Dr. Lamkey is a corn breeder and quantitative geneticist and conducts research on the quantitative genetics of selection response, inbreeding depression, and heterosis. He holds a Ph.D. in plant breeding from Iowa State University and a master’s in plant breeding from the University of Illinois. Lamkey is a fellow of the American Society of Agronomy and the Crop Science Society of America and has served as an associate editor, technical editor, and editor for Crop Science.

Chapter Authors

William Beavis, Ursula Frei, M. L. Harbur, Reka Howard, Kendra Meade, Laura Merrick, Ken Moore, Ron Mowers, and Dennis Todey

Contributors

Anthony A. Mahama, Gretchen Anderson, Todd Hartnell, Andy Rohrback, Tyler Price, Glenn Wiedenhoeft, and Abbey K. Elder