DNA markers offer multiple opportunities to improve the accuracy and efficiency of a plant breeding program through:

Creative Cross Combinations

Devise exciting allelic combinations. Plan their assembly over one or more generations. Estimate the number of seedlings to be created, to meet your thresholds for multiple traits after their DNA testing.

Simple Seedling Selection

Identify and cull offspring likely to be genetically inferior while they are still small seedlings. Accurately reveal their alleles at important loci. Enrich your populations for superior genetics prior to planting!

Elite Entrant Evaluation

Reveal or confirm the presence of alleles contributing to elite performance for breeding selections of promising commercial potential. Advance or discard your selections with more confidence!

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For more information about implementing DNA-informed breeding into your crop improvement program, please contact Julia Piaskowski.