Jessica Rutkoski, assistant professor of Small Grains Breeding, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will present "Genetic Gain, Genetic Diversity, and Genomic Selection: Can Plant Breeders Have It All?" Dec. 4 at the next Agronomy and Horticulture Seminar.
A tradeoff exists between increasing genetic diversity and accelerating rates of short-term genetic gain in breeding programs. However, new selection methods are available to help breeders break this tradeoff. Rutowski will illustrate these points using examples from her recent research based on real and simulated plant breeding programs.
More details at: https://agronomy.unl.edu/seminars