Realized genetic gain in rice: Achievements from breeding programs

F Seck, G Covarrubias-Pazaran, T Gueye… - Rice, 2023 - Springer
Genetic improvement is crucial for ensuring food security globally. Indeed, plant breeding
has contributed significantly to increasing the productivity of major crops, including rice, over …

Genetic Enhancement of Cereals Using Genomic Resources for Nutritional Food Security

N Chaudhary, RK Salgotra, BS Chauhan - Genes, 2023 - mdpi.com
Advances in genomics resources have facilitated the evolution of cereal crops with
enhanced yield, improved nutritional values, and heightened resistance to various biotic and …

Population improvement via recurrent selection drives genetic gain in upland rice breeding

A Pereira de Castro, F Breseghello, IV Furtini… - Heredity, 2023 - nature.com
One of the main challenges of breeding programs is to identify superior genotypes from a
large number of candidates. By gradually increasing the frequency of favorable alleles in the …

Optimization of multi-generation multi-location genomic prediction models for recurrent genomic selection in an upland rice population

H De Verdal, C Baertschi, J Frouin, C Quintero… - Rice, 2023 - Springer
Genomic selection is a worthy breeding method to improve genetic gain in recurrent
selection breeding schemes. The integration of multi-generation and multi-location …

Multi-environment genomic selection in rice elite breeding lines

VH Nguyen, RIZ Morantte, V Lopena, H Verdeprado… - Rice, 2023 - Springer
Background Assessing the performance of elite lines in target environments is essential for
breeding programs to select the most relevant genotypes. One of the main complexities in …

Stochastic simulation to optimize rice breeding at IRRI

F Seck, PT Prakash, G Covarrubias-Pazaran… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Genetic improvement in rice increased yield potential and improved varieties for
farmers over the last decades. However, the demand for rice is growing while its cultivation …

Genomic selection for tolerance to aluminum toxicity in a synthetic population of upland rice

J Bartholomé, JO Ospina, M Sandoval, N Espinosa… - PloS one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Over half of the world's arable land is acidic, which constrains cereal production. In South
America, different rice-growing regions (Cerrado in Brazil and Llanos in Colombia and …

The BLUP method in evaluation of breeding values of Russian spring wheat lines using micro-and macroelements in seeds

NA Potapova, AS Zlobin, IN Leonova… - Vavilov Journal of …, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Genomic selection is a technology that allows for the determination of the genetic value of
varieties of agricultural plants and animal breeds, based on information about genotypes …

Advancing water absorption capacity in hard winter wheat using a multivariate genomic prediction approach

M Wondifraw, ZJ Winn, SD Haley… - Crop …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The water absorption capacity (WAC) of hard wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) flour affects end‐
use quality characteristics, including loaf volume, bread yield, and shelf life. However …

Genomic selection for salinity tolerance in japonica rice

J Bartholomé, J Frouin, L Brottier, TV Cao, A Boisnard… - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Improving plant performance in salinity-prone conditions is a significant challenge in
breeding programs. Genomic selection is currently integrated into many plant breeding …