Source: Tom J. Bechman, FARM PROGRESS, 11/27/20


Can you speak a foreign language? If so, did you learn it by using books or tapes, or by visiting a country where it is spoken? Laura Potter says you can learn a foreign language much faster today using computer-assisted technologies that didn’t exist when a lot of people were learning a second language years ago. In the same way, she uses computer-assisted technology to capture the language of corn when it’s exposed to a multitude of different environments. Then she and her team use what they learn from these “conversations” to develop predictive models that help corn breeders zero in more quickly on traits that modern corn hybrids need.

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