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

ABSTRACT: 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 phases and essentially remained unchanged to accelerate this process or address environmental contingencies and concerns. Here, we introduce an "end-to-end" selective tree breeding framework that: (1) leverages strategically preselected GWAS-based sequence data capturing trait architecture information, (2) generates unprecedented resolution of genealogical relationships among tested individuals, and (3) leads to the elimination of the breeding phase through the utilization of readily available wind-pollinated (OP) families. Individuals' breeding values generated from multi-trait multi-site analysis were also

SUBMITTER: El-Kassaby YA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10844606 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature