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Plant Breeding Virtual ToursJune 22, 2021July 19, 2023

Corn Recurrent Selection

Corn Recurrent Selection

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Patrick Byrne This video explains and illustrates the plant breeding practice known as recurrent selection, a cyclical process of gradually improving the performance of a quantitative trait. The example shown is of a tropical corn population that underwent recurrent selection for adaptation to Iowa conditions.

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