Crossbreeding for Higher Yield and Resilience

One of the base technologies employed by Pacific Hybreed to improve the yield and resilience of shellfish is crossbreeding, a general scheme which aims to take advantage of the general and specific combining abilities of inbred parent lines to produce superior hybrid varieties.  Crossbreeding is commonly used to improve crops.  The first observation of hybrid vigor in corn was published in 1908; crossbreeding for hybrid vigor resulted in a 7-fold increase in the yield of corn in the United States since 1940.  We believe that similar progress could be made with shellfish.