Genomic selection in an outcrossing autotetraploid fruit crop: lessons from blueberry breeding

LFV Ferrão, RR Amadeu, J Benevenuto… - Frontiers in plant …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum and hybrids) is a specialty crop with expanding
production and consumption worldwide. The blueberry breeding program at the University of …

Genomic prediction of autotetraploids; influence of relationship matrices, allele dosage, and continuous genotyping calls in phenotype prediction

I de Bem Oliveira, MFR Resende Jr… - G3: Genes …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Estimation of allele dosage, using genomic data, in autopolyploids is challenging and
current methods often result in the misclassification of genotypes. Some progress has been …

Optimizing whole-genomic prediction for autotetraploid blueberry breeding

I de Bem Oliveira, RR Amadeu, LFV Ferrão, PR Muñoz - Heredity, 2020 - nature.com
Blueberry (Vaccinium spp.) is an important autopolyploid crop with significant benefits for
human health. Apart from its genetic complexity, the feasibility of genomic prediction has …

AGHmatrix: R package to construct relationship matrices for autotetraploid and diploid species: a blueberry example

RR Amadeu, C Cellon, JW Olmstead… - The plant …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Progress in the rate of improvement in autopolyploid species has been limited compared
with diploids, mainly because software and methods to apply advanced prediction and …

Insights into the genetic basis of blueberry fruit-related traits using diploid and polyploid models in a GWAS context

LFV Ferrão, J Benevenuto, IB Oliveira… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Polyploidization is an ancient and recurrent process in plant evolution, impacting the
diversification of natural populations and plant breeding strategies. Polyploidization occurs …

Estimation of genetic parameters and prediction of breeding values in an autotetraploid blueberry breeding population with extensive pedigree data

C Cellon, RR Amadeu, JW Olmstead, MR Mattia… - Euphytica, 2018 - Springer
The strategy for breeding blueberries has been based on phenotypic selection without
accounting for pedigree correlation information. A central premise of classical quantitative …

Autopolyploid inheritance and a heterozygous reciprocal translocation shape chromosome genetic behavior in tetraploid blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum)

MF Mengist, H Bostan, D De Paola, SJ Teresi… - New …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding chromosome recombination behavior in polyploidy species is key to
advancing genetic discoveries. In blueberry, a tetraploid species, the line of evidences about …

Impact of dominance effects on autotetraploid genomic prediction

RR Amadeu, LFV Ferrão, IB Oliveira… - Crop …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Many commercially important plants are autopolyploid. As a result of the multiple
chromosome sets in their genomes, higher orders of allele interactions can occur, implying …

High-resolution linkage map and QTL analyses of fruit firmness in autotetraploid blueberry

F Cappai, RR Amadeu, J Benevenuto… - Frontiers in plant …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum and hybrids) is an autotetraploid crop whose commercial
relevance has been growing steadily during the last 20 years. However, the ever-increasing …

Construction of a SNP and SSR linkage map in autotetraploid blueberry using genotyping by sequencing

S McCallum, J Graham, L Jorgensen, LJ Rowland… - Molecular …, 2016 - Springer
The construction of the first genetic map in autotetraploid blueberry has been made possible
by the development of new SNP markers developed using genotyping by sequencing in a …