Key message The integration of new technologies into public plant breeding programs can
make a powerful step change in agricultural productivity when aligned with principles of …

Association analysis is used to measure relations between markers and quantitative trait loci
(QTL). Their estimation ignores genes with small effects that trigger underpinning …

Genomic selection (GS) is a promising approach exploiting molecular genetic markers to
design novel breeding programs and to develop new markers-based models for genetic …

Genomic Selection (GS) is a new breeding method in which genome-wide markers are used
to predict the breeding value of individuals in a breeding population. GS has been shown to …

In the last decade the breeding technology referred to as 'genomic selection'(GS) has been
implemented in a variety of species, with particular success in animal breeding. Recent …

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 …

Although long-term genetic gain has been achieved through increasing use of modern
breeding methods and technologies, the rate of genetic gain needs to be accelerated to …

The discovery of haploids in higher plants led to the use of doubled haploid (DH) technology
in plant breeding. This article provides the state of the art on DH technology including the …

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 …

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 …