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Christian R Werner1, Mainassara Zaman-Allah2, Teshale Assefa3
1Accelerated Breeding Initiative (ABI), Consultative Group of International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), 56237 Texcoco, Mexico; International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), 56237 Texcoco, Mexico.
Abstract:
Most African crop breeding programs conduct early-stage selection at very few research stations, which may not reflect smallholder farm conditions. Early-stage on-farm sparse testing utilizes genomic relationships to shift selection from research stations to hundreds of farms in the target population of environments, facilitating increased genetic gain in farmers' fields.
