Natural variants of crops are generated from wild progenitor plants under both natural and
human selection. Diverse crops that are able to adapt to various environmental conditions …

Genomic selection (GS) has created a lot of excitement and expectations in the animal‐and
plant‐breeding research communities. In this review, we briefly describe how genomic …

Genomic selection can be applied prior to phenotyping, enabling shorter breeding cycles
and greater rates of genetic gain relative to phenotypic selection. Traits measured using …

Environment is an important determinant of agricultural productivity; therefore, crops have
been bred with traits adapted to their environment. It is assumed that the physiology of seed …

Innumerable approaches to analyse genetic data are now available to guide conservation,
ecological and agricultural projects. However, streamlined and accessible tools are needed …

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 …

Key message Population structure must be evaluated before optimization of the training set
population. Maximizing the phenotypic variance captured by the training set is important for …

Improving environmental adaptation in crops is essential for food security under global
change, but phenotyping adaptive traits remains a major bottleneck. If associations between …

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 …

By 4000 years ago, people had introduced maize to the southwestern United States; full
agriculture was established quickly in the lowland deserts but delayed in the temperate …