The main objective of the Marker Assisted Selection project is to incorporate modern selection technologies to increase the competitiveness of these public wheat breeding programs.

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These wheat lines will be used in the new project to deploy the targeted genes into thousands of lines across the breeding programs, with the help of high-throughput genotyping laboratories established by the USDA. Those laboratories will use modern equipment to provide breeders with the thousands of molecular markers required for this approach.

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