Plantation forests are increasing rapidly in the world in order to alleviate deforestation and
degradation of natural forests, along with providing various goods and services. While …

Key message Genomic prediction based on additive genetic effects can accelerate genetic
gain. There are opportunities for further improvement by including non-additive effects that …

Forest tree breeding has been successful at delivering genetically improved material for
multiple traits based on recurrent cycles of selection, mating, and testing. However, long …

The breeding of forest trees is only a few decades old, and is a much more complicated,
longer, and expensive endeavor than the breeding of agricultural crops. One breeding cycle …

Cold stress (CS) affects the survivability, geographical distribution, and yield stability of
crops. Suitable management and agronomic practices can minimize the crop losses …

Genome-wide association study (GWAS) and genomic prediction (GP) are extensively
employed to accelerate genetic gain and identify QTL in plant breeding. In this study, 1,317 …

Key message Historical data from breeding programs can be efficiently used to improve
genomic selection accuracy, especially when the training set is optimized to subset …

Recent advancements in genomic analysis technologies have opened up new avenues to
promote the efficiency of plant breeding. Novel genomics-based approaches for plant …

Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) breeders consider a large number of traits during cultivar
development and progress in conventional breeding can be slow. There is accumulating …

Prediction of single-cross performance has been a major goal of plant breeders since the
beginning of hybrid breeding. Recently, genomic prediction has shown to be a promising …