Source: John Hart, SOUTHEAST FARM PRESS, 6/5/18


Virginia Tech is turning to marker assisted selection and double haploid technology to speed up the process of delivering wheat varieties to the market. Josh Fitzgerald, small grains post-doctoral research associate at the Eastern Virginia Agricultural Research and Extension Center in Warsaw, said the technology is vital for developing varieties that are scab resistant and have other valuable agronomic traits such as resistance to other diseases like pow...

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