18: The Rise of the Computational Breeder with Mohsen Yoosefzadeh Najafabadi
The Rise of the Computational Breeder: Rethinking How We Grow Food
What happens when crop science becomes computational
In this episode, Jesse Hirsh sits down with Mohsen Yoosefzadeh Najafabadi, Assistant Professor at the University of Guelph, to explore the emergence of the computational breeder: a new kind of agricultural scientist working at the intersection of plant breeding, data science, and artificial intelligence.
Grounded in his work on dry beans, Mohsen walks through how breeding is evolving from a largely intuitive, experience-driven practice into a high-dimensional process shaped…
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