Big Picture Agriculture explains double haploid breeding:
To make doubled haploids, the process uses corn pollen to trick emasculated wheat plants into believing that they have been pollinated, and then the plants reproduce a set of identical chromosomes instead of one each of two different parent plants. Genomic selection that previously took six years to choose parent plants, now takes only one year. (The field testing phase still requires many years, however.)The whole thing is a little complex for me, but there is also an explanatory K-State video over there.
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