Hybrid breeding in barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) offers great opportunities to accelerate the
rate of genetic improvement and to boost yield stability. A crucial requirement consists of the …

Major progresses have been achieved in genotyping technologies, which makes it easier to
decipher the relationship between genotype and phenotype. This contributed to the …

Modeling covariance structure based on genetic similarity between pairs of relatives plays
an important role in evolutionary, quantitative and statistical genetics. Historically, genetic …

Genomewide markers may help untangle unfavorable trait correlations that hinder cultivar
development. Our objectives were to determine (i) if genomewide markers can be used to …

Over the last three decades, steady progresses within the fields of molecular genetics and
quantitative genetics have led to two major breakthroughs in genetics, genetic mapping and …

The performance of hybrids can be predicted with gene expression data from their parental
inbred lines. Implementing such prediction approaches in breeding programs promises to …

A major application of genomic prediction (GP) in plant breeding is the identification of
superior inbred lines within families derived from biparental crosses. When models for …

Most of previous empirical studies with genome-wide prediction were focused on within-
environment prediction based on a single-environment (SE) model. In this study, we …

Identifying high performing hybrids is an essential part of every maize breeding program.
Genomic prediction of maize hybrid performance allows to identify promising hybrids, when …

The observable phenotype is the manifestation of information that is passed along different
organization levels (transcriptional, translational, and metabolic) of a biological system. The …