With marker and phenotype information from observed populations, genomic selection (GS)
can be used to establish associations between markers and phenotypes. It aims to use …

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 …

Maize is both an exciting model organism in plant genetics and also the most important crop
worldwide for food, animal feed and bioenergy production. Recent genome-wide …

SNP genoty** arrays have been useful for many applications that require a large number
of molecular markers such as high-density genetic map**, genome-wide association …

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 …

Improved genotypes developed by plant breeding remain pivotal to global food security. In
the wake of ever-increasing human population, declining agricultural resources and the …

Global food security demands the development and delivery of new technologies to
increase and secure cereal production on finite arable land without increasing water and …

Genomic best linear unbiased prediction (BLUP) is a statistical method that uses
relationships between individuals calculated from single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) …

Key message Bandwagons come in waves. A plant breeder, just like a surfer, needs to
carefully choose which waves to be on. Abstract A bandwagon is an idea, activity, or cause …

Crop genomics has seen dramatic advances in recent years due to improvements in
sequencing technology, assembly methods, and computational resources. These advances …