GAIN: A long-term maize germplasm innovation plan.
While these initiatives enriched breeding pipelines, challenges remain. Linkage drag and poor agronomic performance of some landraces hindered exotic germplasm utilization. Their regional focus limited global applicability, and conventional population development methods proved resource intensive and slow.
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