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Collaborative project: breeding efficiency, yield performance and adaption of maize populations in different environments (ecological, conventional) and setting up a new maize population for science, breeding and agricultural praxis (ZuchtmetPopMais)

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Project code: 2815NA171
Contract period: 01.04.2017 - 31.03.2020
Budget: 32,451 Euro
Purpose of research: Applied research

Maize is one of the most important crops around the world. Global players in seed production offer hundreds of varieties. Almost all of them are hybrids whereas open pollinated varieties (OPVs) are rare. In Germany (and many other European countries) hardly any new OPVs are registered; most efforts to do so failed in the past. The main advantage of OPVs is their phenotypic and genetic heterogeneity and thus their ability to adapt to different environmental conditions. This could be of utmost interest facing the complex challenge of climate change. OPVs based on new breeding material are going to be developed and tested in low and high input environments in comparison to recently released hybrids. Different breeding methods for developing OPVs and the adaption potential of OPVs will be investigated. FZD (Forschung & Züchtung Dottenfelderhof) is responsible for TP1. The aim of TP1 is to compare different breeding methods for developing populations on the example of two OPVs.

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