Maria Balota
Professor and Extension Specialist
Tidewater Agricultural Research and Extension Center
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Maria Balota is a Professor with two-way appointment in the School of Plant and Environmental Sciences (SPES) covering 50% research and 50% extension. She resides at the Tidewater Agricultural Research and Extension Center (TAREC) in Suffolk, VA, where serves as the leader of the multi-state Peanut Variety and Quality Evaluation (PVQE), which is the pipeline for Virginia-type peanut cultivar development for Virginia and the Carolinas. In this capacity, Balota has expertise in stress physiology of field crops and aerial high-throughput phenotyping for indirect crop selection.
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