Cereals 25: How DSV are accelerating bread-making wheat breeding

Plant breeding company DSV have been in works with NIAB to create a model to predict if a new wheat variety can bake good loaf of bread

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Cereals 25: How DSV are accelerating bread-making wheat breeding

For the last six years, plant breeders DSV, has been involved in a PhD programme with NIAB to develop a genomic prediction model for bread-making, a model that has produced DSV's new Group 1 candidate...

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