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Optimisation algorithms for plant breeding
Plant breeding is the practice of creating improved varieties of cultivated crops with for instance a higher yield, better appearance or enhanced disease resistance. We will develop optimisation algorithms to construct good crossing schedules, which will lead to individuals that possess a selection of desired favorable traits. Plant breeding projects typically contain large collections of varieties, which are often too large to be handled in practice. We will develop algorithms to select a smaller subset that is still a good representative of the complete collection.
Date:1 Oct 2012 → 14 Jun 2013
Keywords:metaheuristics, optimisation, plant breeding
Disciplines:Visual computing, Public health care, Computer architecture and networks, Scientific computing, Bioinformatics and computational biology, Information systems, Applied mathematics in specific fields, Public health services, Other information and computing sciences, Information sciences, Distributed computing, Theoretical computer science, Programming languages