The first paradigm of plant breeding involves direct selection-based phenotypic observation,
followed by predictive breeding using statistical models for quantitative traits constructed …

Continued increases in genetic gain demonstrate the success of established public and
private plant breeding programs. Nevertheless, in the last two decades, a growing body of …

Plant breeding primarily focuses on improving agronomy traits, eg yield, quality, host plant
resistance to pathogens and pests, and abiotic stress tolerance; however, the methods for …

Genomic prediction is a promising approach for accelerating the genetic gain of complex
traits in wheat breeding. However, increasing the prediction accuracy (PA) of genomic …

Crop breeding must embrace the broad diversity of smallholder agricultural systems to
ensure food security to the hundreds of millions of people living in challenging production …

Soft white wheat is a wheat class used in foreign and domestic markets to make various end
products requiring specific quality attributes. Due to associated cost, time, and amount of …

Implementing genomic-based prediction models in genomic selection requires an
understanding of the measures for evaluating prediction accuracy from different models and …

In plant breeding, the need to improve the prediction of future seasons or new locations
and/or environments, also denoted as “leave one environment out,” is of paramount …

Improved selection of wheat varieties with high end‐use quality contributes to sustainable
food systems by ensuring productive crops are suitable for human consumption end‐uses …

Motivation Developing new crop varieties with superior performance is highly important to
ensure robust and sustainable global food security. The speed of variety development is …