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Structuring An Efficient Organic Wheat Breeding Program, P. Stephen Baenziger, Ibrahim Salah, Richard S. Little, Dipak K. Santra, Teshome Regassa, Meng Yuan Wang

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Faculty Publications

Our long-term goal is to develop wheat cultivars that will improve the profitability and competitiveness of organic producers in Nebraska and the Northern Great Plains. Our approach is to select in early generations for highly heritable traits that are needed for both organic and conventional production (another breeding goal), followed by a targeted organic breeding effort with testing at two organic locations (each in a different ecological region) beginning with the F₆ generation. Yield analyses from replicated trials at two organic breeding sites and 7 conventional breeding sites from F₆ through F₁₂ nurseries revealed, using analyses of …