Forest tree breeding efforts have focused mainly on improving traits of economic importance,
selecting trees suited to new environments or generating trees that are more resilient to …

Genome-wide molecular markers are often being used to evaluate genetic diversity in
germplasm collections and for making genomic selections in breeding programs. To …

Background Genomic prediction is a genomics assisted breeding methodology that can
increase genetic gains by accelerating the breeding cycle and potentially improving the …

Crop breeding is one of the main approaches to increase crop yield and improve crop
quality. However, the breeding process faces challenges such as complex data, difficulties …

Phenotyping is the current bottleneck in plant breeding, especially because next-generation
sequencing has decreased genotyping cost more than 100.000 fold in the last 20 years …

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 …

Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) is a clonally propagated staple food crop in the tropics.
Genomic selection (GS) has been implemented at three breeding institutions in Africa to …

Plant breeding largely depends on phenotypic selection in plots and only for some, often
disease-resistance-related traits, uses genetic markers. The more recently developed …

Prediction accuracy of genomic selection (GS) has been previously evaluated through
simulation and cross‐validation; however, validation based on progeny performance in a …

Kernel methods are flexible and easy to interpret and have been successfully used in
genomic-enabled prediction of various plant species. Kernel methods used in genomic …