| Hilltop Husker - 7/2/2025 12:29
Corn breeding doesn't make higher yielding corn. Corn breeding makes stress tolerant corn. The reduction of stress allows farmers not doing everything correctly to yield more bushels. But the yield was already in the corn genes to begin with.
In laboratory conditions open pollinated corn can yield within 75% of hybrid corn. The 25% remainder is from stress reduction breeding.
I have to respectfully disagree with your statement that corn breeding does not create higher yielding corn. I spent a lot of time in the those labs(greenhouses) at Ohio State and what you said did not happen one single time (open pollinated can yield within 75% of hybrid corn)
Our plots outside, the yield difference was even worse for open pollinated corn because of environmental issues mainly wind.
Edited by DaveMk 7/3/2025 02:55
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