Quantitative genetics and genomics converge to accelerate forest tree breeding

D Grattapaglia, OB Silva-Junior, RT Resende… - Frontiers in plant …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Forest tree breeding has been successful at delivering genetically improved material for
multiple traits based on recurrent cycles of selection, mating, and testing. However, long …

Genomic selection for forest tree improvement: Methods, achievements and perspectives

VG Lebedev, TN Lebedeva, AI Chernodubov… - Forests, 2020 - mdpi.com
The breeding of forest trees is only a few decades old, and is a much more complicated,
longer, and expensive endeavor than the breeding of agricultural crops. One breeding cycle …

Enviromics in breeding: applications and perspectives on envirotypic-assisted selection

RT Resende, HP Piepho, GJM Rosa… - Theoretical and Applied …, 2021 - Springer
Key message We propose the application of enviromics to breeding practice, by which the
similarity among sites assessed on an “omics” scale of environmental attributes drives the …

Breeding and genetics of disease resistance in temperate fruit trees: challenges and new opportunities

A Khan, SS Korban - Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 2022 - Springer
Climate change, large monocultures of disease-susceptible cultivars, overuse of pesticides,
and the emergence of new pathogens or pathogenic strains causing economic losses are all …

Improving genomic prediction of growth and wood traits in Eucalyptus using phenotypes from non-genotyped trees by single-step GBLUP

EP Cappa, BM de Lima, OB da Silva-Junior, CC Garcia… - Plant Science, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Genomic Best Linear Unbiased Prediction (GBLUP) in tree breeding typically only
uses information from genotyped trees. However, information from phenotyped but non …

Efficient genomics-based 'end-to-end' selective tree breeding framework

YA El-Kassaby, EP Cappa, C Chen, B Ratcliffe… - Heredity, 2024 - nature.com
Since their initiation in the 1950s, worldwide selective tree breeding programs followed the
recurrent selection scheme of repeated cycles of selection, breeding (mating), and testing …

Effect of hidden relatedness on single-step genetic evaluation in an advanced open-pollinated breeding program

J Klápště, M Suontama, HS Dungey, EJ Telfer… - Journal of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Open-pollinated (OP) mating is frequently used in forest tree breeding due to the relative
temporal and financial efficiency of the approach. The trade-off is the lower precision of the …

Genetic Diversity and Population Structure of Serbian Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) Collection during a 40-Year Long Breeding Period

L Brbaklić, D Trkulja, S Mikić, M Mirosavljević… - Agronomy, 2021 - mdpi.com
Determination of genetic diversity and population structure of breeding material is an
important prerequisite for discovering novel and valuable alleles aimed at crop …

Realized genomic selection across generations in a reciprocal recurrent selection breeding program of Eucalyptus hybrids

GF Simiqueli, RT Resende, EK Takahashi… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Genomic selection (GS) experiments in forest trees have largely reported
estimates of predictive abilities from cross-validation among individuals in the same …

Single-step genomic BLUP enables joint analysis of disconnected breeding programs: an example with Eucalyptus globulus Labill

AN Callister, BP Bradshaw, S Elms, RAW Gillies… - G3, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Single-step GBLUP (HBLUP) efficiently combines genomic, pedigree, and phenotypic
information for holistic genetic analyses of disjunct breeding populations. We combined data …