Building Efficient Breeding Programs in Forages – BreedForage
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We envision building efficient breeding programs for perennial, outcrossing forage crops utilizing current knowledge for sustainable feed and food production.
This project aims to improve the breeding of key forage crops like timothy and red clover to meet future demands for sustainable food and feed production.
By combining advanced field trials across Sweden’s diverse climates with cutting-edge genetic analyses, we are identifying plants that offer high yield and improved nutritional quality, especially under climate stress.
The project combines modern technologies such as protein profiling and genomic analyses to speed up plant breeding. In the long term, this work paves the way for robust, high-performing forage crops adapted to the agriculture of the future.