Recipient Organization
NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIV
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RALEIGH,NC 27695
Performing Department
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Non Technical Summary
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Animal Health Component
10%
Research Effort Categories
Basic
90%
Applied
10%
Developmental
0%
Goals / Objectives
Focused on maize, one of the most valuable crop species worldwide, the Genomes to Fields (G2F) Initiative focuses on leveraging and building on the publicly-funded maize genome sequencing projects to advance our understanding of the role of existent genetic variation to increase plantsâ¿¿ resilience to environmental influences. The Genotype by Environment (GXE) project is a multi-investigator project that is part of G2F. Since 2014, this project has evaluated more than 1,500 unique maize hybrids across more than 77 environments for a total of more than 45,000 experimental plots. This funding will contribute to continue this collaborative project into the future including support for germplasm development, data collection, high-throughput phenotyping deployment, and data analysis focused on improving environment-specific hybrid performance predictions.
Project Methods
The North Carolina State University research group will have activities within the following areas to support the GXE project within G2F: - Development of germplasm resources - Production and distribution of inbred and hybrid seed to cooperators for trials - Phenotypic, genotypic, and environmental data collection - Development and testing of genomic prediction models based on hybrid testing data