An increase in the rate of crop improvement is essential for achieving sustained food
production and other needs of ever-increasing population. Genomic selection (GS) is a …

Maize is the world's most produced crop, providing food, feed, and biofuel. Maize production
is constantly threatened by the presence of devastating pathogens worldwide …

Genetic progress of crop plants is required to face human population growth and guarantee
production stability in increasingly unstable environmental conditions. Breeding is …

Modeling epistasis in genomic selection is impeded by a high computational load. The
extended genomic best linear unbiased prediction (EG-BLUP) with an epistatic relationship …

Background High density genotyping data are indispensable for genomic analyses of
complex traits in animal and crop species. Maize is one of the most important crop plants …

Key message We compare genomic selection methods that use correlated traits to help
predict biomass yield in sorghum, and find that trait-assisted genomic selection performs …

One of the most important factors affecting genomic prediction accuracy appears to be
training population (TP) composition. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of …

Modern whole-genome prediction (WGP) frameworks that focus on multi-environment trials
(MET) integrate large-scale genomics, phenomics, and envirotyping data. However, the …

Abstract Background Maize (Zea mays) is a globally produced crop with broad genetic and
phenotypic variation. New tools that improve our understanding of the genetic basis of …

Genomic selection (GS) as a promising molecular breeding strategy has been widely
implemented and evaluated for plant breeding, because it has remarkable superiority in …