Identifying the superior cultivars among the immense number of inbreds or their combinations is a long-standing challenge. By viewing plant breeding as a process of genetic space exploration, data mining and design thinking would help reshape the next generation breeding programs. PI: Yu, Jianming. Funding: The National Science Foundation Grant IOS-1238142, the Iowa State University Raymond F. Baker Center for Plant Breeding, and the Iowa State University Plant Sciences Institute.
