Breeding crops for drought-affected environments and improved climate resilience

M Cooper, CD Messina - The Plant Cell, 2023‏ - academic.oup.com
Breeding climate-resilient crops with improved levels of abiotic and biotic stress resistance
as a response to climate change presents both opportunities and challenges. Applying the …

Exploring impact of recombination landscapes on breeding outcomes

R Epstein, N Sajai, M Zelkowski, A Zhou… - Proceedings of the …, 2023‏ - pnas.org
Plant breeding relies on crossing-over to create novel combinations of alleles needed to
confer increased productivity and other desired traits in new varieties. However, crossover …

Efficient ancestry and mutation simulation with msprime 1.0

F Baumdicker, G Bisschop, D Goldstein, G Gower… - Genetics, 2022‏ - academic.oup.com
Stochastic simulation is a key tool in population genetics, since the models involved are
often analytically intractable and simulation is usually the only way of obtaining ground-truth …

Optimal cross selection for long-term genetic gain in two-part programs with rapid recurrent genomic selection

G Gorjanc, RC Gaynor, JM Hickey - Theoretical and applied genetics, 2018‏ - Springer
Key message Optimal cross selection increases long-term genetic gain of two-part programs
with rapid recurrent genomic selection. It achieves this by optimising efficiency of converting …

Expanding the stdpopsim species catalog, and lessons learned for realistic genome simulations

ME Lauterbur, MIA Cavassim, AL Gladstein, G Gower… - Elife, 2023‏ - elifesciences.org
Simulation is a key tool in population genetics for both methods development and empirical
research, but producing simulations that recapitulate the main features of genomic datasets …

A genome-guided strategy for climate resilience in American chestnut restoration populations

AM Sandercock, JW Westbrook, Q Zhang… - Proceedings of the …, 2024‏ - pnas.org
American chestnut (Castanea dentata) is a deciduous tree species of eastern North America
that was decimated by the introduction of the chestnut blight fungus (Cryphonectria …

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 …

Two decades of harnessing standing genetic variation for physiological traits to improve drought tolerance in maize

CD Messina, C Gho, GL Hammer… - Journal of …, 2023‏ - academic.oup.com
We review approaches to maize breeding for improved drought tolerance during flowering
and grain filling in the central and western US corn belt and place our findings in the context …

Breeding schemes: what are they, how to formalize them, and how to improve them?

G Covarrubias-Pazaran, Z Gebeyehu… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2022‏ - frontiersin.org
Formalized breeding schemes are a key component of breeding program design and a
gateway to conducting plant breeding as a quantitative process. Unfortunately, breeding …

Modelling selection response in plant-breeding programs using crop models as mechanistic gene-to-phenotype (CGM-G2P) multi-trait link functions

M Cooper, O Powell, KP Voss-Fels, CD Messina… - in silico …, 2021‏ - academic.oup.com
Plant-breeding programs are designed and operated over multiple cycles to systematically
change the genetic makeup of plants to achieve improved trait performance for a Target …