Diversity Key to Improving Winter Wheat Varieties
Wednesday, March 23, 2016 - 12:40
in Biology & Nature
"Breeding is a numbers game--the more combinations we test, the more likely we are to identify a superior plant," said winter wheat breeder Sunish Sehgal. He develops more than 500 new genetic combinations each year to increase winter hardiness, yield and disease and drought resistance in South Dakota wheat varieties.