Enhancing Genetic Gain through Genomic Selection: From Livestock to Plants.

ABSTRACT: Although long-term genetic gain has been achieved through increasing use of modern breeding methods and technologies, the rate of genetic gain needs to be accelerated to meet humanity's demand for agricultural products. In this regard, genomic selection (GS) has been considered most promising for genetic improvement of the complex traits controlled by many genes each with minor effects. Livestock scientists pioneered GS application largely due to livestock's significantly higher individual values and the greater reduction in generation interval that can be achieved in GS. Large-scale application of GS in plants can be achieved by refining field management to improve heritability estimation and prediction accuracy and developing optimum GS models with the consideration of genotype-by-enviro

SUBMITTER: Xu Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7747995 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature