For decades, plant breeders faced a simple challenge: collecting enough data. Today, many breeding programs face the opposite problem.
As genomics, digital breeding platforms, and new analytical tools expand what breeders can measure, many organizations now must manage, integrate, and act on vast amounts of information from multiple sources.
In this Seed World Insight video, Enid Perez-Lara, Industry Engagement Manager at Agronomix, explores how modern plant breeding is evolving in the age of data abundance. She discusses why breeding has always been a data-driven discipline, how today’s technologies are reshaping the breeder’s role, and why data integration has become a critical priority for breeding programs.
As breeding technology continues to advance, what skills will define the next generation of plant breeders? How will breeders balance data analysis with field expertise? And how can breeding programs turn an explosion of genomic, phenotypic, and environmental data into a competitive advantage?
Watch the full interview as Perez-Lara explores one of the defining questions facing modern breeding programs: in an era of data abundance, what separates organizations that collect information from those that consistently turn it into better decisions?
