Towards knowledge-based crop yield enhancement by combining - omics strategies and emerging technologies Ghent University
Breeding has been extremely instrumental to increase maize yield over the past years, and the
studies focusing on quantitative traits have identified genomic regions associated with many
agronomical traits. However, breeders do not have the state of the art tools at hand to study the
function of the identified genes or to increase the gene space surrounding these genes. Plant
biotechnologists, on the other hand, ...