Enhancing Hybrid Prediction in Pearl Millet Using Genomic and/or Multi-Environment Phenotypic Information of Inbreds.

ABSTRACT: Genomic selection (GS) is an emerging methodology that helps select superior lines among experimental cultivars in plant breeding programs. It offers the opportunity to increase the productivity of cultivars by delivering increased genetic gains and reducing the breeding cycles. This methodology requires inexpensive and sufficiently dense marker information to be successful, and with whole genome sequencing, it has become an important tool in many crops. The recent assembly of the pearl millet genome has made it possible to employ GS models to improve the selection procedure in pearl millet breeding programs. Here, three GS models were implemented and compared using grain yield and dense molecular marker information of pearl millet obtained from two different genotyping platforms (C [conve

SUBMITTER: Jarquin D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6993057 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature