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Haploids fast-track hybrid plant breeding

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Two studies report the use of paternal haploids to enable one-step transfer of cytoplasmic male sterility in maize and broccoli, which resolves a key technical bottleneck in hybrid crop breeding.

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Fig. 1: Comparison of methods for transferring CMS into a recipient plant genome.

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