The utilization of heterosis is a successful strategy in increasing yield for many crops.
However, it consumes tremendous manpower to test the combining ability of the parents in …

QTL mapping by association analysis has recently gained interest in plant breeding
research as an alternative to QTL mapping in segregating populations from biparental …

Background There is increasing empirical evidence that whole-genome prediction (WGP) is
a powerful tool for predicting line and hybrid performance in maize. However, there is a lack …

Combining ability is crucial for parent selection in crop hybrid breeding. Many studies have
attempted to provide reliable and quick methods to identify genome regions in parental lines …

Brassica napus L. is a widely cultivated oil crop and provides important resources of edible
vegetable oil, and its quality is determined by fatty acid composition and content. To explain …

Efficiently exploiting natural genetic diversity captured by accessions stored in genebanks is
crucial to genetic improvement of major crops. Selecting accessions of interest from …

Highly efficient and accurate selection of elite genotypes can lead to dramatic shortening of
the breeding cycle in major crops relevant for sustaining present demands for food, feed …

The prediction of breeding values and phenotypes is of central importance for both livestock
and crop breeding. In this study, we analyze the use of artificial neural networks (ANN) and …

Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) have rapidly become the molecular marker of
choice in plant and animal association mapping (AM) studies. In this work, a genome-wide …

Hybrid breeding programs are driven by the potential to explore the heterosis phenomenon
in traits with nonadditive inheritance. Traditionally, progress has been achieved by crossing …