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Lyle Depauw

Jul 20, 2026

Kelly Hensel
Kelly HenselCORRESPONDENT
7:46
Is there a technology among those that you think will have the biggest impact on innovation over the next decade? Or is that like an impossible question to answer?
7:56
Well, I think that's the wonderful thing about technology and being in this crop innovation space is that we have access to all of these new innovations.
8:06
I think about my own personal 25-year career.
8:10
I stepped into this world when we just started to figure out how to do a process called double haploid.
8:17
And this is a pre-process to making hybrid crops, which tend to be more resilient.
8:22
Really simply put, you can take a grain of pollen and nudge it towards creating a new plant.
8:28
So that's really important in the plant breeding space.
Kelly Hensel
Kelly HenselCORRESPONDENT
10:57
And then why is that so important when developing these new, you know, crop traits and technologies?

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