Association mapping: critical considerations shift from genotyping to experimental design

S Myles, J Peiffer, PJ Brown, ES Ersoz, Z Zhang… - The Plant …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
The goal of many plant scientists' research is to explain natural phenotypic variation in terms
of simple changes in DNA sequence. Traditionally, linkage mapping has been the most …

Association genetics in crop improvement

JA Rafalski - Current opinion in plant biology, 2010 - Elsevier
Increased availability of high throughput genotyping technology together with advances in
DNA sequencing and in the development of statistical methodology appropriate for genome …

Genebank genomics highlights the diversity of a global barley collection

SG Milner, M Jost, S Taketa, ER Mazón… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Genebanks hold comprehensive collections of cultivars, landraces and crop wild relatives of
all major food crops, but their detailed characterization has so far been limited to sparse core …

Comparing different statistical models and multiple testing corrections for association mapping in soybean and maize

AS Kaler, JD Gillman, T Beissinger… - Frontiers in plant …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Association mapping (AM) is a powerful tool for fine mapping complex trait variation down to
nucleotide sequences by exploiting historical recombination events. A major problem in AM …

A genome-wide association study of resistance to stripe rust (Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici) in a worldwide collection of hexaploid spring wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)

M Maccaferri, J Zhang, P Bulli, Z Abate… - G3: Genes …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
New races of Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici (Pst), the causal pathogen of wheat stripe rust,
show high virulence to previously deployed resistance genes and are responsible for large …

Genome wide association studies using a new nonparametric model reveal the genetic architecture of 17 agronomic traits in an enlarged maize association panel

N Yang, Y Lu, X Yang, J Huang, Y Zhou, F Ali… - PLoS …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Association mapping is a powerful approach for dissecting the genetic architecture of
complex quantitative traits using high-density SNP markers in maize. Here, we expanded …

Marker-assisted plant breeding: principles and practices

BD Singh, AK Singh - 2015 - Springer
Improved genotypes developed by plant breeding remain pivotal to global food security. In
the wake of ever-increasing human population, declining agricultural resources and the …

Genome-wide association study for flowering time, maturity dates and plant height in early maturing soybean (Glycine max) germplasm

J Zhang, Q Song, PB Cregan, RL Nelson, X Wang… - BMC genomics, 2015 - Springer
Abstract Background Soybean (Glycine max) is a photoperiod-sensitive and self-pollinated
species. Days to flowering (DTF) and maturity (DTM), duration of flowering-to-maturity …

Genome-wide association studies for agronomical traits in a world wide spring barley collection

RK Pasam, R Sharma, M Malosetti, FA van Eeuwijk… - BMC plant biology, 2012 - Springer
Background Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) based on linkage disequilibrium
(LD) provide a promising tool for the detection and fine mapping of quantitative trait loci …

Software for genome‐wide association studies in autopolyploids and its application to potato

UR Rosyara, WS De Jong, DS Douches… - The plant …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Genome‐wide association studies (GWAS) are widely used in diploid species to study
complex traits in diversity and breeding populations, but GWAS software tailored to …