From DNA to Better Tea: The Business Logic of Modern Breeding
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The $15 Question That Could Transform Tea Breeding
What if spending $15 per seedling could tell you—with 70% accuracy—whether that plant would become a high-yielding bush, years before you invested in field trials?
That’s not science fiction. It’s the reality of genomic selection, and it’s reshaping the economics of crop improvement worldwide. The question is: why isn’t tea keeping up?