Many economically important traits in plant breeding have low heritability or are difficult to
measure. For these traits, genomic selection has attractive features and may boost genetic …

Pedigrees and dense marker panels have been used to predict the genetic merit of
individuals in plant and animal breeding, accounting primarily for the contribution of additive …

Key message Fusarium head blight and Septoria tritici blotch resistances are complex traits
and can be improved efficiently by genomic selection modeling main and epistatic effects …

Multi-environment trials are routinely conducted in plant breeding to select candidates for
the next selection cycle. In this study, we compare the prediction accuracy of four developed …

In wheat breeding, it is a difficult task to select the most suitable parents for making crosses
aimed at the improvement of both grain yield and grain quality. By quantitative genetics …

High cane yield and commercially extractable sucrose (CCS) content are two of the key
sugarcane commercial traits selected in sugarcane breeding programs. Advancements in …

High yield is the primary objective of maize breeding. Genomic dissection of grain yield and
yield-related traits contribute to understanding the yield formation and improving the yield of …

Genomic selection is proving an effective new strategy for increasing breeding efficiency in a
wide variety of cereal species–the staple crops that feed the world. A preponderance of …

Recent advances in sequencing technology have brought several novel platforms for marker
development and subsequent genotyping. The high-throughput and cost effective marker …

Genomic selection (GS) in wheat breeding programs is of great interest for predicting the
genotypic values of individuals, where both additive and nonadditive effects determine the …