By Nikki Shrestha, 2022-2025 FFAR Fellow
at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Plant breeding has come a long way since farmers first began saving seeds from the best plants thousands of years ago. Today, breeders use cutting-edge tools like genomic sequencing to identify genes linked to specific traits of interest. My research focuses on improving how we measure these traits, which is crucial for accurately finding the genes responsible for them.