Genomic-enabled prediction is becoming increasingly important in animal and plant
breeding and is also receiving attention in human genetics. Deriving accurate predictions of …

The genomic prediction of phenotypes and breeding values in animals and plants has
developed rapidly into its own research field. Results of genomic prediction studies are often …

Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.) is a perennial grass that has been designated as an
herbaceous model biofuel crop for the United States of America. To facilitate accelerated …

Molecular breeding (MB) may be defined in a broad-sense as the use of genetic
manipulation performed at DNA molecular levels to improve characters of interest in plants …

Plant breeding can be broadly defined as alterations caused in plants as a result of their use
by humans, ranging from unintentional changes resulting from the advent of agriculture to …

Advances in next-generation sequencing and genotyping technologies have enabled
generation of large-scale genomic resources such as molecular markers, transcript reads …

Cassava is an important crop in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Cassava
can be produced adequately in drought conditions making it the ideal food security crop in …

Crop salt tolerance (ST) is a complex trait affected by numerous genetic and non‐genetic
factors, and its improvement via conventional breeding has been slow. Recent …

Intense structuring of plant breeding populations challenges the design of the training set
(TS) in genomic selection (GS). An important open question is how the TS should be …

Genomewide selection (GWS) is marker‐assisted selection without identifying markers with
significant effects. Our previous work with the intermated B73× Mo17 maize (Zea mays L.) …