Microsatellite data helped double yield for Indian farmers
Meha Jain |
LCLUC PI and her team of scientists has successfully used data from microsatellites to quantify and enhance yield gains for small farmers in India - a discovery that can help increase food production in a low-cost and sustainable way. The team from university of Michigan, Mexico-headquartered the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre and Stanford and Cornell universities ran an experiment on 127 small-holder farms in India using a split-plot design over multiple years. The study was done on small-holder wheat fields in the eastern Indo-Gangetic plains in the country. Wednesday, October 30, 2019 |