The main objective of the Marker Assisted Selection project is to incorporate modern selection technologies to increase the competitiveness of these public wheat breeding programs. |
These wheat lines will be used in the new project to deploy the targeted genes into thousands of lines across the breeding programs, with the help of high-throughput genotyping laboratories established by the USDA. Those laboratories will use modern equipment to provide breeders with the thousands of molecular markers required for this approach. |
This grant will enable us to expand our research effort, provide training for graduate and undergraduate students, and share practical information about the technology with growers across the country. |