Budak brings international perspective to improve Montana's wheat crop

By Carol Schmidt

MSU News Service

BOZEMAN — A scientist raised near the area in Turkey where wheat was first domesticated nearly 10,000 years ago is bringing the newest contemporary technologies to Montana State University to strengthen the vitality of Montana wheat.

Hikmet Budak, MSU’s first Montana Plant Sciences Endowed Chair, arrived in Bozeman from Sabanci University in Istanbul, Turkey. The focus of his work will be using cutting edge research to help the university develop wheat that will stand up to the four traditional stressors of Montana’s most important crop — wheat st...