Phenotyping whole forests will help to track genetic performance

HS Dungey, JP Dash, D Pont, PW Clinton, MS Watt… - Trends in Plant …, 2018 - cell.com
Phenotyping is the accurate and precise physical description of organisms. Accurate and
quantitative phenotyping underpins the delivery of benefits from genetic improvement …

A high-density exome capture genotype-by-sequencing panel for forestry breeding in Pinus radiata

E Telfer, N Graham, L Macdonald, Y Li, J Klápště… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Development of genome-wide resources for application in genomic selection or genome-
wide association studies, in the absence of full reference genomes, present a challenge to …

Genome-wide prediction of complex traits in two outcrossing plant species through Deep Learning and Bayesian Regularized Neural Network

C Maldonado, F Mora-Poblete… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Genomic selection models were investigated to predict several complex traits in breeding
populations of Zea mays L. and Eucalyptus globulus Labill. For this, the following methods of …

Approaches to variant discovery for conifer transcriptome sequencing

E Telfer, N Graham, L Macdonald, S Sturrock… - PLoS …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
There is a wide diversity of bioinformatic tools available for the assembly of next generation
sequence and subsequence variant calling to identify genetic markers at scale. Integration …

Genome-wide association studies dissect the G × E interaction for agronomic traits in a worldwide collection of safflowers (Carthamus tinctorius L.)

H Zhao, KW Savin, Y Li, EJ Breen, P Maharjan… - Molecular …, 2022 - Springer
Genome-wide association studies were conducted using a globally diverse safflower
(Carthamus tinctorius L.) Genebank collection for grain yield (YP), days to flowering (DF) …

[HTML][HTML] Well-connected trials show low genotype-by-environment interaction in Pinus radiata

D McLean, LA Apiolaza, MF Paget, J Klápště - Forest Ecology and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Selection in the New Zealand radiata pine (Pinus radiata D. Don) breeding program
relies on wide-scale testing to adequately sample environmental variation. The program …

Association mapping between candidate gene SNP and production and oil quality traits in interspecific oil palm hybrids

M Astorkia, M Hernandez, S Bocs… - Plants, 2019 - mdpi.com
Oil palm production is gaining importance in Central and South America. However, the main
species Elaeis guineensis (Eg) is suffering severely from bud rod disease, restricting the …

Chasing genetic correlation breakers to stimulate population resilience to climate change

J Klápště, EJ Telfer, HS Dungey, NJ Graham - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Global climate change introduces new combinations of environmental conditions, which is
expected to increase stress on plants. This could affect many traits in multiple ways that are …

Detection of significant SNP associated with production and oil quality traits in interspecific oil palm hybrids using RARSeq

M Astorkia, M Hernández, S Bocs, K Ponce, O León… - Plant Science, 2020 - Elsevier
A RARSeq based Association mapping study was performed in a population of 104 Elaeis
oleifera x E. guineensis hybrids of five origins with the aim of finding functional markers …

Genomic Selection in Scots (Pinus Sylvestris) and Radiata (Pinus Radiata) Pines

A Calleja-Rodríguez, J Klápště, H Dungey, N Graham… - The Pine Genomes, 2022 - Springer
Pines are economically important species widely planted across the globe. Therefore, the
industry is interested in increasing the efficacy of their breeding programs, which explains …