His research focuses on soybean cultivar development with the goals of improving seed yield, genetic diversity and abiotic stress.

Soybeans are an economically important crop for Kansas. Soybeans tend to be grown on over 4 million acres each year and are a key component of crop rotations, especially in the eastern half of Kansas. Genetic advances in performance have resulted in soybeans being a viable crop on more dryland and irrigated Kansas acres than ever before.

The overall goal of the soybean breeding program is to develop soybean varieties and germplasm for use as genetic resources for companies and for direct on-farm production.