Dr. Knapp is the Director of the Strawberry Breeding Program. His research focuses on breeding, genetics, and genomics, cultivar development and deployment, understanding and identifying genetic factors underlying economically important phenotypes (e.g., disease resistance, yield, daylight sensitivity, and fruit quality), marker-assisted selection and genomic selection, and conserving and utilizing genetic diversity.
Department: Plant Sciences
Lab: Strawberry Breeding & Research
Email: sjknapp@ucdavis.edu