The winter nursery in Puerto Rico is used to conduct generation advance for soybean breeding and genetics studies to obtain two additional generations per year and for our primary crossing season for the variety development program. The Chile nurseries are used primarily for progeny row evaluation of new lines that will enter multi-location yield tests in Nebraska, for advanced populations for single plant harvest to derive new lines for evaluation in Nebraska, and to conduct small-scale seed increases of specific lines to hasten development of populations and lines for research and commercial production. The nurseries in South America allow evaluation for agronomic traits in environments...
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