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Unmanned aerial vehicles help wheat breeders

CIMMYT scientists use UAVs to more accurately measure plant health to select high-yielding wheat.
September 3, 2020

Authors of a recent Crop Science article leveraged unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to record the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), a measure of plant health, at the seed increase stage of the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center’s (CIMMYT) wheat breeding program.

Read more here: https://www.sciencecodex.com/unmanned-aerial-vehicles-help-wheat-breeders-655650

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