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| Hello NE Ridger,
I am curious... how is that you decided to plant some plots of OP corn this year?
This season (for the first time), we planted 3 lines (2 hybrids and 1 OP) of high beta-carotene corn developed by Dr. Walter Goldstein.
The OP corn is clearly more variable in tassel height (and various other characteristics) but I have not looked at it carefully for a number of weeks so I should take a closer look when I am at the research farm tomorrow.
Walter is also working on other nutritional quality trait as well as improved hosting of N-fixing endophytes.
here is a link to some info about his institute: http://www.mandaamin.org/who-are-we
and here is a link to a video of a presentation on breeding corn for positive soil microbial interactions: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8-jlGIe8ig&feature=youtu.be
you might want to contact Walter and offer to evaluate some of his lines.
Joel
WIU Agriculture | |
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