Crop wild relatives (CWRs) have provided breeders with several'game-changing'traits or
genes that have boosted crop resilience and global agricultural production. Advances in …

Genome‐wide association studies (GWAS) have developed into a powerful and ubiquitous
tool for the investigation of complex traits. In large part, this was fueled by advances in …

Although hybrid crop varieties are among the most popular agricultural innovations, the
rationale for hybrid crop breeding is sometimes misunderstood. Hybrid breeding is slower …

Most traits of agronomic importance are quantitative in nature, and genetic markers have
been used for decades to dissect such traits. Recently, genomic selection has earned …

Fusarium head blight is among the most extensively studied fungal diseases of wheat and
other small grain cereals due to its impact on yield and quality, but particularly due to its …

Many important traits in plant breeding are polygenic and therefore recalcitrant to traditional
marker‐assisted selection. Genomic selection addresses this complexity by including all …

Both linear mixed models (LMMs) and sparse regression models are widely used in
genetics applications, including, recently, polygenic modeling in genome-wide association …

Genomic-enabled prediction is becoming increasingly important in animal and plant
breeding and is also receiving attention in human genetics. Deriving accurate predictions of …

We intuitively believe that the dramatic drop in the cost of DNA marker information we have
experienced should have immediate benefits in accelerating the delivery of crop varieties …

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 …