Not exact matches
Gentry added that the researchers hypothesize that
corn yields can be further increased in a sustainable way, even beyond the results demonstrated in this study, with continued crop
breeding efforts, advancements in fertilizer formulations and placement technology, and possibly, with the development of effective
plant growth promoters, she said.
This information has a variety of implications for
corn breeding as well as management practices like
plant population.»
Mitch Tuinstra, a professor of
plant breeding and genetics at Purdue, likened Schulz's work with
corn to what Norman Borlaug did for the development of high - yield wheat crops in the 1960s and 1970s.
Using techniques collectively known as molecular
breeding, geneticists have started to return results in a variety of
plants, said Ed Buckler, a
plant geneticist at Cornell University who recently helped sequence the
corn genome.
One additional side benefit for having a few milkweed
plants in a field of
corn is that it serves as a
breeding place and food source for monarch butterflies.
Only deep, earthy beets, rich sweet
corn and bright kale were fit for the Farm to Flavor dinner, a showcase for vegetables
bred specifically for intense flavor by the UW — Madison
plant breeding network the Seed to Kitchen Collaborative.
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