DNA markers have enormous potential to improve the efficiency and precision of
conventional plant breeding via marker-assisted selection (MAS). The large number of …

Recognizing the enormous potential of DNA markers in plant breeding, many agricultural
research centers and plant breeding institutes have adopted the capacity for marker …

Despite important strides in marker technologies, the use of marker‐assisted selection has
stagnated for the improvement of quantitative traits. Biparental mating designs for the …

Newly discovered true (non-null) associations often have inflated effects compared with the
true effect sizes. I discuss here the main reasons for this inflation. First, theoretical …

Genomic selection refers to the use of dense markers covering the whole genome to
estimate the breeding value of selection candidates for a quantitative trait. This paper …

More accurate and precise phenoty** strategies are necessary to empower high-
resolution linkage map** and genome-wide association studies and for training genomic …

Traditional marker-assisted selection (MAS) did not result in a widespread use of DNA
information in animal breeding. The main reason was that the traits of interest in livestock …

The rediscovery of Mendel's work showing that the heredity of phenotypes is controlled by
discrete genes was followed by the reconciliation of Mendelian genetics with evolution by …

Genomic selection is a form of marker‐assisted selection in which genetic markers covering
the whole genome are used so that all quantitative trait loci (QTL) are in linkage …

The search for the alleles that matter, the quantitative trait nucleotides (QTNs) that underlie
heritable variation within populations and divergence among them, is a popular pursuit. But …