USDA Agricultural Research Service
Dr. Anna McClung is the Research Leader for the USDA-ARS, Dale Bumpers National Rice Research Center, in Stuttgart, AR. The Center has 12 scientific positions that are focused on exploring the genetic control of economically important traits in rice. She serves as geneticist and has been responsible for the development of 17 rice cultivars and 9 germplasm lines. She has published 100 peer reviewed manuscripts in the area of molecular marker development for grain quality and disease resistance traits, characterizing and utilizing diverse rice germplasm and wild species for cultivar improvement, and developing high throughput evaluation methods.