Enhancing Crop Domestication Through Genomic Selection, a Case Study of Intermediate Wheatgrass.

ABSTRACT: Perennial grains could simultaneously provide food for humans and a host of ecosystem services, including reduced erosion, minimized nitrate leaching, and increased carbon capture. Yet most of the world's food and feed is supplied by annual grains. Efforts to domesticate intermediate wheatgrass (Thinopyrumn intermedium, IWG) as a perennial grain crop have been ongoing since the 1980's. Currently, there are several breeding programs within North America and Europe working toward developing IWG into a viable crop. As new breeding efforts are established to provide a widely adapted crop, questions of how genomic and phenotypic data can be used among sites and breeding programs have emerged. Utilizing five cycles of breeding data that span 8 years and two breeding programs, University o

SUBMITTER: Crain J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7105684 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature