We wrote this book to fill the gap between textbooks of quantitative genetic theory and
software manuals that provide details on analytical methods but little context or perspective …

We report on a whole‐genome draft sequence of rye (Secale cereale L.). Rye is a diploid
Triticeae species closely related to wheat and barley, and an important crop for food and …

Charcoal rot (CR) disease caused by Macrophomina phaseolina is responsible for
significant yield losses in soybean production. Among the methods available for controlling …

Salt is a severe abiotic stress causing soybean yield loss in saline soils and irrigated fields.
Marker-assisted selection (MAS) is a powerful genomic tool for improving the efficiency of …

Multi-environment trials are routinely conducted in plant breeding to select candidates for
the next selection cycle. In this study, we compare the prediction accuracy of four developed …

A genome‐wide association study explored the genetic basis of variation for drought
tolerance and related traits in a Middle American diversity panel comprising 96 common …

Genome-wide association (GWAS) and epistatic (GWES) studies along with expression
studies in soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] were leveraged to dissect the genetics of …

Background Epistasis marker effect models incorporating products of marker values as
predictor variables in a linear regression approach (extended GBLUP, EGBLUP) have been …

Gao et al. propose several approaches to incorporate gene annotation into genomic
prediction and evaluate these new methods on populations..... Today, genomic prediction …

Background Genomic selection (GS) promises to accelerate genetic gain in plant breeding
programs especially for crop species such as cassava that have long breeding cycles …