
David Uhr
Regional Corn Breeding Leader
Dow AgroSciences
Mount Vernon, IN USA
“No matter what perspective you come from, it’s amazing to see the natural world as it is and yet find ways to improve on it, to create something new.”
Dow AgroSciences
Mount Vernon, IN USA
“No matter what perspective you come from, it’s amazing to see the natural world as it is and yet find ways to improve on it, to create something new.”
Regional Corn Breeding Leader
I lead a corn breeding research station with the goals of developing commercial inbreds for the U.S.
We are in the seed business. I work to develop a hybrid that will help farmer's businesses increase production. In order to create a hybrid, you have to have two "parent" plants to cross breed. Part of my work is to develop those parent plants in a nursery that will contain the traits we desire in future generations (disease resistant, good kernel quality, pollen shed, etc.). The other part of my work is testing the hybrids we create to ensure performance and yield in a variety of environments.
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