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Ferrão LFV, Azevedo CF, Sims CA, Munoz PR. A consumer-oriented approach to define breeding targets for molecular breeding. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2025; 245:711-721. [PMID: 39530162 DOI: 10.1111/nph.20254] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2024] [Accepted: 10/15/2024] [Indexed: 11/16/2024]
Abstract
Flavor is a crucial aspect of the eating experience, reflecting evolving consumer preferences for fruits with enhanced quality. Modern fruit breeding programs prioritize improving quality traits aligned with consumer tastes. However, defining fruit-quality attributes that significantly impact consumer preference is a current challenge faced by the industry and breeders. This study proposes a data-driven approach to statistically model the relationship between fruit-quality parameters and consumers' overall liking. Our primary hypothesis suggests that the interplay between fruit-quality attributes and consumer preferences may reach a critical value, serving as new empirical benchmarks for fruit quality. Using extensive historical datasets accounting for sensory, biochemical, and genomic information described in blueberry, we first demonstrated that multivariate adaptive regression splines (MARS) could be used to identify specific values of fruit-quality traits that significantly affect consumer perception by using nonlinear spline regressions on estimating threshold points. We harnessed genomic information and carried out genomic selection (GS) for five fruit-quality traits evaluated on the original scale and after classified via the MARS approach. This study provides a pioneering consumer-centric and data-driven approach to defining fruit-quality standards and supporting molecular breeding that has broad applications to breeding programs from any species.
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- Luis Felipe V Ferrão
- Horticultural Sciences Department, Blueberry Breeding and Genomics Lab, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32611, USA
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- Horticultural Sciences Department, Blueberry Breeding and Genomics Lab, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32611, USA
- Statistics Department, Federal University of Viçosa, Viçosa, MG, 36570-900, Brazil
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- Food Science and Human Nutrition Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32611, USA
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- Horticultural Sciences Department, Blueberry Breeding and Genomics Lab, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32611, USA
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Liu H, Xu J, Wang X, Wang H, Wang L, Shen Y. Efficient large-scale genomic prediction in approximate genome-based kernel model. TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2024; 138:6. [PMID: 39666050 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-024-04793-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2024] [Accepted: 11/23/2024] [Indexed: 12/13/2024]
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KEY MESSAGE Three computationally efficient algorithms of GP including RHBK, RHDK, and RHPK were developed in approximate genome-based kernel model. The drastically growing amount of genomic information contributes to increasing computational burden of genomic prediction (GP). In this study, we developed three computationally efficient algorithms of GP including RHBK, RHDK, and RHPK in approximate genome-based kernel model, which reduces dimension of genomic data via Nyström approximation and decreases the computational cost significantly thereby. According to the simulation study and real datasets, our three methods demonstrated predictive accuracy similar to or better than RHAPY, GBLUP, and rrBLUP in most cases. They also demonstrated a substantial reduction in computational time compared to GBLUP and rrBLUP in simulation. Due to their advanced computing efficiency, our three methods can be used in a wide range of application scenarios in the future.
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- Hailan Liu
- Maize Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, 611130, Sichuan, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Adaptation and Evolution of Plateau Biota, Laboratory for Research and Utilization of Qinghai Tibetan Plateau Germplasm Resources, Qinghai Provincial Key Laboratory of Crop Molecular Breeding, Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, 810008, China
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- Maize Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, 611130, Sichuan, China
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- Key Laboratory of Adaptation and Evolution of Plateau Biota, Laboratory for Research and Utilization of Qinghai Tibetan Plateau Germplasm Resources, Qinghai Provincial Key Laboratory of Crop Molecular Breeding, Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, 810008, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- Key Laboratory of Adaptation and Evolution of Plateau Biota, Laboratory for Research and Utilization of Qinghai Tibetan Plateau Germplasm Resources, Qinghai Provincial Key Laboratory of Crop Molecular Breeding, Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, 810008, China
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- Key Laboratory of Adaptation and Evolution of Plateau Biota, Laboratory for Research and Utilization of Qinghai Tibetan Plateau Germplasm Resources, Qinghai Provincial Key Laboratory of Crop Molecular Breeding, Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, 810008, China.
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Sun J, Wei J, Pan Y, Cao M, Li X, Xiao J, Yang G, Yu T. Improving genomic prediction accuracy of pig reproductive traits based on genotype imputation using preselected markers with different imputation platforms. Animal 2024; 19:101387. [PMID: 39708733 DOI: 10.1016/j.animal.2024.101387] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2024] [Revised: 11/21/2024] [Accepted: 11/22/2024] [Indexed: 12/23/2024] Open
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Genomic prediction has been widely applied to the pig industry and has greatly accelerated the progress of genetic improvement in pigs. With the development of sequencing technology and price reduction, more and more genotype imputation panels of pig have been investigated, providing an effective and economical method to further study the genetic variation of pig economic traits. In this study, the imputation from 80 k Single Nucleotide Polymorphism chip data of 832 Large White pigs to whole-genome sequencing genotypes was performed by Swine Imputation Server, Pig Haplotypes Reference Panel (PHARP), Animal Genotype Imputation Database and 1k-pig-genomes four thousand-pig imputation panels. Then, linkage disequilibrium (LD) pruning and genome-wide association study (GWAS) preselected markers strategies were utilised to compare the genomic prediction accuracy of the different imputation data for reproductive traits, respectively. Our results showed that the PHARP panel exhibited the best genomic prediction accuracy among the four imputation panels. Meanwhile, the genomic prediction accuracy of the imputation data can be further improved by utilising the LD pruning and GWAS preselected marker strategies. In conclusion, our study provides insights into imputation data for pig genetic breeding.
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- J Sun
- Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction of Shaanxi Province, Laboratory of Animal Fat Deposition & Muscle Development, College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China; Key Laboratory of Agroecological Processes in Subtropical Region, Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changsha, Hunan 410125, China
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- Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction of Shaanxi Province, Laboratory of Animal Fat Deposition & Muscle Development, College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China
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- Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction of Shaanxi Province, Laboratory of Animal Fat Deposition & Muscle Development, College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China
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- Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction of Shaanxi Province, Laboratory of Animal Fat Deposition & Muscle Development, College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China
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- Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction of Shaanxi Province, Laboratory of Animal Fat Deposition & Muscle Development, College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China
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- Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction of Shaanxi Province, Laboratory of Animal Fat Deposition & Muscle Development, College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China
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- Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction of Shaanxi Province, Laboratory of Animal Fat Deposition & Muscle Development, College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China
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- Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction of Shaanxi Province, Laboratory of Animal Fat Deposition & Muscle Development, College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China.
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Lück S, Scholz U, Douchkov D. Introducing GWAStic: a user-friendly, cross-platform solution for genome-wide association studies and genomic prediction. BIOINFORMATICS ADVANCES 2024; 4:vbae177. [PMID: 39678203 PMCID: PMC11643344 DOI: 10.1093/bioadv/vbae177] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2024] [Revised: 10/23/2024] [Accepted: 11/09/2024] [Indexed: 12/17/2024]
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Motivation Advances in genomics have created an insistent need for accessible tools that simplify complex genetic data analysis, enabling researchers across fields to harness the power of genome-wide association studies and genomic prediction. GWAStic was developed to bridge this gap, providing an intuitive platform that combines artificial intelligence with traditional statistical methods, making sophisticated genomic analysis accessible without requiring deep expertise in statistical software. Results We present GWAStic, an intuitive, cross-platform desktop application designed to streamline genome-wide association studies and genomic prediction for biological and medical researchers. With a user-friendly graphical interface, GWAStic integrates machine learning and traditional statistical approaches to support genetic analysis. The application accepts inputs from standard text-based Variant Call Formats and PLINK binary files, generating clear graphical outputs, including Manhattan plots, quantile-quantile plots, and genomic prediction correlation plots to enhance data visualization and analysis. Availability and implementation Project page: https://github.com/snowformatics/gwastic_desktop; GWAStic documentation: https://snowformatics.gitbook.io/product-docs; PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/gwastic-desktop/.
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- Stefanie Lück
- Department of Breeding Research, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), OT Gatersleben, D-06466 Seeland, Germany
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- Department of Breeding Research, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), OT Gatersleben, D-06466 Seeland, Germany
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- Department of Breeding Research, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), OT Gatersleben, D-06466 Seeland, Germany
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Dev W, Sultana F, He S, Waqas M, Hu D, Aminu IM, Geng X, Du X. An insight into heat stress response and adaptive mechanism in cotton. JOURNAL OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2024; 302:154324. [PMID: 39167998 DOI: 10.1016/j.jplph.2024.154324] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2024] [Revised: 08/01/2024] [Accepted: 08/05/2024] [Indexed: 08/23/2024]
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The growing worldwide population is driving up demand for cotton fibers, but production is hampered by unpredictable temperature rises caused by shifting climatic conditions. Numerous research based on breeding and genomics have been conducted to increase the production of cotton in environments with high and low-temperature stress. High temperature (HT) is a major environmental stressor with global consequences, influencing several aspects of cotton plant growth and metabolism. Heat stress-induced physiological and biochemical changes are research topics, and molecular techniques are used to improve cotton plants' heat tolerance. To preserve internal balance, heat stress activates various stress-responsive processes, including repairing damaged proteins and membranes, through various molecular networks. Recent research has investigated the diverse reactions of cotton cultivars to temperature stress, indicating that cotton plant adaptation mechanisms include the accumulation of sugars, proline, phenolics, flavonoids, and heat shock proteins. To overcome the obstacles caused by heat stress, it is crucial to develop and choose heat-tolerant cotton cultivars. Food security and sustainable agriculture depend on the application of genetic, agronomic, and, biotechnological methods to lessen the impacts of heat stress on cotton crops. Cotton producers and the textile industry both benefit from increased heat tolerance. Future studies should examine the developmental responses of cotton at different growth stages, emphasize the significance of breeding heat-tolerant cultivars, and assess the biochemical, physiological, and molecular pathways involved in seed germination under high temperatures. In a nutshell, a concentrated effort is required to raise cotton's heat tolerance due to the rising global temperatures and the rise in the frequency of extreme weather occurrences. Furthermore, emerging advances in sequencing technologies have made major progress toward successfully se sequencing the complex cotton genome.
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- Washu Dev
- State Key Laboratory of Cotton Bio-breeding and Integrated Utilization, Institute of Cotton Research of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Anyang, 455000, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cotton Bio-breeding and Integrated Utilization, Institute of Cotton Research of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Anyang, 455000, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cotton Bio-breeding and Integrated Utilization, Institute of Cotton Research of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Anyang, 455000, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cotton Bio-breeding and Integrated Utilization, Institute of Cotton Research of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Anyang, 455000, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cotton Bio-breeding and Integrated Utilization, Institute of Cotton Research of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Anyang, 455000, China; National Nanfan Research Institute (Sanya), Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Sanya, Hainan, 57202, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cotton Bio-breeding and Integrated Utilization, Institute of Cotton Research of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Anyang, 455000, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cotton Bio-breeding and Integrated Utilization, Institute of Cotton Research of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Anyang, 455000, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cotton Bio-breeding and Integrated Utilization, Institute of Cotton Research of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Anyang, 455000, China; National Nanfan Research Institute (Sanya), Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Sanya, Hainan, 57202, China.
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Crossa J, Montesinos-Lopez OA, Costa-Neto G, Vitale P, Martini JWR, Runcie D, Fritsche-Neto R, Montesinos-Lopez A, Pérez-Rodríguez P, Gerard G, Dreisigacker S, Crespo-Herrera L, Pierre CS, Lillemo M, Cuevas J, Bentley A, Ortiz R. Machine learning algorithms translate big data into predictive breeding accuracy. TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2024:S1360-1385(24)00259-0. [PMID: 39462718 DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2024.09.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2024] [Revised: 08/23/2024] [Accepted: 09/23/2024] [Indexed: 10/29/2024]
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Statistical machine learning (ML) extracts patterns from extensive genomic, phenotypic, and environmental data. ML algorithms automatically identify relevant features and use cross-validation to ensure robust models and improve prediction reliability in new lines. Furthermore, ML analyses of genotype-by-environment (G×E) interactions can offer insights into the genetic factors that affect performance in specific environments. By leveraging historical breeding data, ML streamlines strategies and automates analyses to reveal genomic patterns. In this review we examine the transformative impact of big data, including multi-trait genomics, phenomics, and environmental covariables, on genomic-enabled prediction in plant breeding. We discuss how big data and ML are revolutionizing the field by enhancing prediction accuracy, deepening our understanding of G×E interactions, and optimizing breeding strategies through the analysis of extensive and diverse datasets.
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- José Crossa
- Louisiana State University, College of Agriculture, Baton Rouge, LA, USA; Colegio de Postgraduados, Montecillos, CP 56230, Estado de México, Mexico; International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Carretera México- Veracruz Km 45, El Batán, Texcoco, CP 56237, Estado de México, Mexico; Department of Statistics and Operations Research and Distinguished Scientist Fellowship Program, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia
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- International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Carretera México- Veracruz Km 45, El Batán, Texcoco, CP 56237, Estado de México, Mexico
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA
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- Departamento de Matemáticas, Centro Universitario de Ciencias Exactas e Ingenierías (CUCEI), Universidad de Guadalajara, 44430 Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
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- International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Carretera México- Veracruz Km 45, El Batán, Texcoco, CP 56237, Estado de México, Mexico
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- International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Carretera México- Veracruz Km 45, El Batán, Texcoco, CP 56237, Estado de México, Mexico
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- International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Carretera México- Veracruz Km 45, El Batán, Texcoco, CP 56237, Estado de México, Mexico
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- International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Carretera México- Veracruz Km 45, El Batán, Texcoco, CP 56237, Estado de México, Mexico
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- Norwegian University of Life Science (NMBU), Department of Plant Science, Ås, Norway
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- Universidad de Quintana Roo, Chetumal, Quintana Roo, 77019, Mexico
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- Australian National University, Research School of Biology, Canberra, NSW, Australia.
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- Department of Plant Breeding, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), PO Box 190 Sundsvagen 10, SE 23422 Lomma, Sweden.
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Liu C, Du S, Wei A, Cheng Z, Meng H, Han Y. Hybrid Prediction in Horticulture Crop Breeding: Progress and Challenges. PLANTS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2024; 13:2790. [PMID: 39409660 PMCID: PMC11479247 DOI: 10.3390/plants13192790] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2024] [Revised: 09/25/2024] [Accepted: 10/03/2024] [Indexed: 10/20/2024]
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In the context of rapidly increasing population and diversified market demands, the steady improvement of yield and quality in horticultural crops has become an urgent challenge that modern breeding efforts must tackle. Heterosis, a pivotal theoretical foundation for plant breeding, facilitates the creation of superior hybrids through crossbreeding and selection among a variety of parents. However, the vast number of potential hybrids presents a significant challenge for breeders in efficiently predicting and selecting the most promising candidates. The development and refinement of effective hybrid prediction methods have long been central to research in this field. This article systematically reviews the advancements in hybrid prediction for horticultural crops, including the roles of marker-assisted breeding and genomic prediction in phenotypic forecasting. It also underscores the limitations of some predictors, like genetic distance, which do not consistently offer reliable hybrid predictions. Looking ahead, it explores the integration of phenomics with genomic prediction technologies as a means to elevate prediction accuracy within actual breeding programs.
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- Ce Liu
- Cucumber Research Institute, Tianjin Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Tianjin 300192, China; (C.L.)
- State Key Laboratory of Vegetable Biobreeding, Tianjin 300192, China
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- Cucumber Research Institute, Tianjin Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Tianjin 300192, China; (C.L.)
- State Key Laboratory of Vegetable Biobreeding, Tianjin 300192, China
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- Cucumber Research Institute, Tianjin Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Tianjin 300192, China; (C.L.)
- State Key Laboratory of Vegetable Biobreeding, Tianjin 300192, China
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- College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China
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- College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China
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- Cucumber Research Institute, Tianjin Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Tianjin 300192, China; (C.L.)
- State Key Laboratory of Vegetable Biobreeding, Tianjin 300192, China
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Tanaka R, Kawai T, Kawakatsu T, Tanaka N, Shenton M, Yabe S, Uga Y. Transcriptome-based prediction for polygenic traits in rice using different gene subsets. BMC Genomics 2024; 25:915. [PMID: 39354337 PMCID: PMC11443665 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-024-10803-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2024] [Accepted: 09/13/2024] [Indexed: 10/03/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND Transcriptome-based prediction of complex phenotypes is a relatively new statistical method that links genetic variation to phenotypic variation. The selection of large-effect genes based on a priori biological knowledge is beneficial for predicting oligogenic traits; however, such a simple gene selection method is not applicable to polygenic traits because causal genes or large-effect loci are often unknown. Here, we used several gene-level features and tested whether it was possible to select a gene subset that resulted in better predictive ability than using all genes for predicting a polygenic trait. RESULTS Using the phenotypic values of shoot and root traits and transcript abundances in leaves and roots of 57 rice accessions, we evaluated the predictive abilities of the transcriptome-based prediction models. Leaf transcripts predicted shoot phenotypes, such as plant height, more accurately than root transcripts, whereas root transcripts predicted root phenotypes, such as crown root length, more accurately than leaf transcripts. Furthermore, we used the following three features to train the prediction model: (1) tissue specificity of the transcripts, (2) ontology annotations, and (3) co-expression modules for selecting gene subsets. Although models trained by a gene subset often resulted in lower predictive abilities than the model trained by all genes, some gene subsets showed improved predictive ability. For example, using genes expressed in roots but not in leaves, the predictive ability for crown root diameter was improved by more than 10% (R2 = 0.59 when using all genes; R2 = 0.66, using 1,554 root-specifically expressed genes). Similarly, genes annotated as "gibberellic acid sensitivity" showed higher predictive ability than using all genes for root dry weight. CONCLUSIONS Our results highlight both the possibility and difficulty of selecting an appropriate gene subset to predict polygenic traits from transcript abundance, given the current biological knowledge and information. Further integration of multiple sources of information, as well as improvements in gene characterization, may enable the selection of an optimal gene set for the prediction of polygenic phenotypes.
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- Ryokei Tanaka
- Institute of Crop Sciences, National Agriculture & Food Research Organization, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8518, Japan.
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- Institute of Crop Sciences, National Agriculture & Food Research Organization, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8518, Japan
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- Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, National Agriculture & Food Research Organization, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8604, Japan
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- Institute of Crop Sciences, National Agriculture & Food Research Organization, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8518, Japan
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- Institute of Crop Sciences, National Agriculture & Food Research Organization, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8518, Japan
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- Institute of Crop Sciences, National Agriculture & Food Research Organization, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8518, Japan
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- Institute of Crop Sciences, National Agriculture & Food Research Organization, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8518, Japan
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Xie Z, Weng L, He J, Feng X, Xu X, Ma Y, Bai P, Kong Q. PNNGS, a multi-convolutional parallel neural network for genomic selection. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2024; 15:1410596. [PMID: 39290743 PMCID: PMC11405342 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2024.1410596] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2024] [Accepted: 08/19/2024] [Indexed: 09/19/2024]
Abstract
Genomic selection (GS) can accomplish breeding faster than phenotypic selection. Improving prediction accuracy is the key to promoting GS. To improve the GS prediction accuracy and stability, we introduce parallel convolution to deep learning for GS and call it a parallel neural network for genomic selection (PNNGS). In PNNGS, information passes through convolutions of different kernel sizes in parallel. The convolutions in each branch are connected with residuals. Four different Lp loss functions train PNNGS. Through experiments, the optimal number of parallel paths for rice, sunflower, wheat, and maize is found to be 4, 6, 4, and 3, respectively. Phenotype prediction is performed on 24 cases through ridge-regression best linear unbiased prediction (RRBLUP), random forests (RF), support vector regression (SVR), deep neural network genomic prediction (DNNGP), and PNNGS. Serial DNNGP and parallel PNNGS outperform the other three algorithms. On average, PNNGS prediction accuracy is 0.031 larger than DNNGP prediction accuracy, indicating that parallelism can improve the GS model. Plants are divided into clusters through principal component analysis (PCA) and K-means clustering algorithms. The sample sizes of different clusters vary greatly, indicating that this is unbalanced data. Through stratified sampling, the prediction stability and accuracy of PNNGS are improved. When the training samples are reduced in small clusters, the prediction accuracy of PNNGS decreases significantly. Increasing the sample size of small clusters is critical to improving the prediction accuracy of GS.
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- Zhengchao Xie
- Research Center for Life Sciences Computing, Zhejiang Laboratory, Hangzhou, China
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- Research Center for Life Sciences Computing, Zhejiang Laboratory, Hangzhou, China
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- Research Center for Life Sciences Computing, Zhejiang Laboratory, Hangzhou, China
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- Key Laboratory of Soybean Molecular Design Breeding, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, China
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- School of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou, China
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- Research Center for Life Sciences Computing, Zhejiang Laboratory, Hangzhou, China
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- Research Center for Life Sciences Computing, Zhejiang Laboratory, Hangzhou, China
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- Research Center for Life Sciences Computing, Zhejiang Laboratory, Hangzhou, China
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Inamori M, Kimura T, Mori M, Tarumoto Y, Hattori T, Hayano M, Umeda M, Iwata H. Machine learning for genomic and pedigree prediction in sugarcane. THE PLANT GENOME 2024; 17:e20486. [PMID: 38923818 DOI: 10.1002/tpg2.20486] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2023] [Revised: 05/07/2024] [Accepted: 05/08/2024] [Indexed: 06/28/2024]
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Sugarcane (Saccharum spp.) plays a crucial role in global sugar production; however, the efficiency of breeding programs has been hindered by its heterozygous polyploid genomes. Considering non-additive genetic effects is essential in genome prediction (GP) models of crops with highly heterozygous polyploid genomes. This study incorporates non-additive genetic effects and pedigree information using machine learning methods to track sugarcane breeding lines and enhance the prediction by assessing the degree of association between genotypes. This study measured the stalk biomass and sugar content of 297 clones from 87 families within a breeding population used in the Japanese sugarcane breeding program. Subsequently, we conducted analyses based on the marker genotypes of 33,149 single-nucleotide polymorphisms. To validate the accuracy of GP in the population, we first predicted the prediction accuracy of the best linear unbiased prediction (BLUP) based on a genomic relationship matrix. Prediction accuracy was assessed using two different cross-validation methods: repeated 10-fold cross-validation and leave-one-family-out cross-validation. The accuracy of GP of the first and second methods ranged from 0.36 to 0.74 and 0.15 to 0.63, respectively. Next, we compared the prediction accuracy of BLUP and two machine learning methods: random forests and simulation annealing ensemble (SAE), a newly developed machine learning method that explicitly models the interaction between variables. Both pedigree and genomic information were utilized as input in these methods. Through repeated 10-fold cross-validation, we found that the accuracy of the machine learning methods consistently surpassed that of BLUP in most cases. In leave-one-family-out cross-validation, SAE demonstrated the highest accuracy among the methods. These results underscore the effectiveness of GP in Japanese sugarcane breeding and highlight the significant potential of machine learning methods.
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- Minoru Inamori
- Laboratory of Biometry and Bioinformatics, Department of Agricultural and Environmental Biology, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Toyota Motor Corporation, New Business Planning Division, Agriculture & Biotechnology Business Department, Toyota, Japan
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- Toyota Motor Corporation, Environment Affairs and Engineering Management Division, CN Advanced Engineering Development Center, Tokyo, Japan
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- NARO Kyushu Okinawa Agricultural Research Center, Tanegashima Sugarcane Breeding Site, Nishinoomote, Japan
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- NARO Kyushu Okinawa Agricultural Research Center, Tanegashima Sugarcane Breeding Site, Nishinoomote, Japan
- NARO Kyushu Okinawa Agricultural Research Center, Itoman Resident Office, Itoman, Japan
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- NARO Kyushu Okinawa Agricultural Research Center, Tanegashima Sugarcane Breeding Site, Nishinoomote, Japan
- NARO Institute for Agro-Environmental Science, Tsukuba, Japan
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- NARO Kyushu Okinawa Agricultural Research Center, Tanegashima Sugarcane Breeding Site, Nishinoomote, Japan
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- Laboratory of Biometry and Bioinformatics, Department of Agricultural and Environmental Biology, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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Sivabharathi RC, Rajagopalan VR, Suresh R, Sudha M, Karthikeyan G, Jayakanthan M, Raveendran M. Haplotype-based breeding: A new insight in crop improvement. PLANT SCIENCE : AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PLANT BIOLOGY 2024; 346:112129. [PMID: 38763472 DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2024.112129] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2024] [Revised: 05/09/2024] [Accepted: 05/15/2024] [Indexed: 05/21/2024]
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Haplotype-based breeding (HBB) is one of the cutting-edge technologies in the realm of crop improvement due to the increasing availability of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms identified by Next Generation Sequencing technologies. The complexity of the data can be decreased with fewer statistical tests and a lower probability of spurious associations by combining thousands of SNPs into a few hundred haplotype blocks. The presence of strong genomic regions in breeding lines of most crop species facilitates the use of haplotypes to improve the efficiency of genomic and marker-assisted selection. Haplotype-based breeding as a Genomic Assisted Breeding (GAB) approach harnesses the genome sequence data to pinpoint the allelic variation used to hasten the breeding cycle and circumvent the challenges associated with linkage drag. This review article demonstrates ways to identify candidate genes, superior haplotype identification, haplo-pheno analysis, and haplotype-based marker-assisted selection. The crop improvement strategies that utilize superior haplotypes will hasten the breeding progress to safeguard global food security.
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- R C Sivabharathi
- Department of Genetics and Plant breeding, CPBG, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore 641003, India
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- Department of Plant Biotechnology, Centre for Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, 641003, India
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- Department of Rice, CPBG, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore 641003, India
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- Department of Plant Biotechnology, Centre for Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, 641003, India.
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- Department of Plant Pathology, CPPS, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore 641003, India
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- Department of Plant Molecular Biology and Bioinformatics, Centre for Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore 641003, India
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- Directorate of research, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore 641003, India.
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Adunola P, Ferrão LFV, Benevenuto J, Azevedo CF, Munoz PR. Genomic selection optimization in blueberry: Data-driven methods for marker and training population design. THE PLANT GENOME 2024; 17:e20488. [PMID: 39087863 DOI: 10.1002/tpg2.20488] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2024] [Revised: 04/25/2024] [Accepted: 06/04/2024] [Indexed: 08/02/2024]
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Genomic prediction is a modern approach that uses genome-wide markers to predict the genetic merit of unphenotyped individuals. With the potential to reduce the breeding cycles and increase the selection accuracy, this tool has been designed to rank genotypes and maximize genetic gains. Despite this importance, its practical implementation in breeding programs requires critical allocation of resources for its application in a predictive framework. In this study, we integrated genetic and data-driven methods to allocate resources for phenotyping and genotyping tailored to genomic prediction. To this end, we used a historical blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosun L.) breeding dataset containing more than 3000 individuals, genotyped using probe-based target sequencing and phenotyped for three fruit quality traits over several years. Our contribution in this study is threefold: (i) for the genotyping resource allocation, the use of genetic data-driven methods to select an optimal set of markers slightly improved prediction results for all the traits; (ii) for the long-term implication, we carried out a simulation study and emphasized that data-driven method results in a slight improvement in genetic gain over 30 cycles than random marker sampling; and (iii) for the phenotyping resource allocation, we compared different optimization algorithms to select training population, showing that it can be leveraged to increase predictive performances. Altogether, we provided a data-oriented decision-making approach for breeders by demonstrating that critical breeding decisions associated with resource allocation for genomic prediction can be tackled through a combination of statistics and genetic methods.
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- Paul Adunola
- Blueberry Breeding and Genomics Lab, Horticultural Sciences Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
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- Blueberry Breeding and Genomics Lab, Horticultural Sciences Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
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- Blueberry Breeding and Genomics Lab, Horticultural Sciences Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
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- Blueberry Breeding and Genomics Lab, Horticultural Sciences Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
- Statistics Department, Federal University of Viçosa, Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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- Blueberry Breeding and Genomics Lab, Horticultural Sciences Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
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Larue F, Rouan L, Pot D, Rami JF, Luquet D, Beurier G. Linking genetic markers and crop model parameters using neural networks to enhance genomic prediction of integrative traits. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2024; 15:1393965. [PMID: 39139722 PMCID: PMC11319263 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2024.1393965] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2024] [Accepted: 07/04/2024] [Indexed: 08/15/2024]
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Introduction Predicting the performance (yield or other integrative traits) of cultivated plants is complex because it involves not only estimating the genetic value of the candidates to selection, the interactions between the genotype and the environment (GxE) but also the epistatic interactions between genomic regions for a given trait, and the interactions between the traits contributing to the integrative trait. Classical Genomic Prediction (GP) models mostly account for additive effects and are not suitable to estimate non-additive effects such as epistasis. Therefore, the use of machine learning and deep learning methods has been previously proposed to model those non-linear effects. Methods In this study, we propose a type of Artificial Neural Network (ANN) called Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and compare it to two classical GP regression methods for their ability to predict an integrative trait of sorghum: aboveground fresh weight accumulation. We also suggest that the use of a crop growth model (CGM) can enhance predictions of integrative traits by decomposing them into more heritable intermediate traits. Results The results show that CNN outperformed both LASSO and Bayes C methods in accuracy, suggesting that CNN are better suited to predict integrative traits. Furthermore, the predictive ability of the combined CGM-GP approach surpassed that of GP without the CGM integration, irrespective of the regression method used. Discussion These results are consistent with recent works aiming to develop Genome-to-Phenotype models and advocate for the use of non-linear prediction methods, and the use of combined CGM-GP to enhance the prediction of crop performances.
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- Florian Larue
- Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (CIRAD), Unité Mixte de Recherche, Institut Amélioration Génétique et Adaptation des Plantes méditerranéennes et Tropicales (UMR AGAP), Montpellier, France
- Unité Mixte de Recherche, Institut Amélioration Génétique et Adaptation des Plantes méditerranéennes et Tropicales (UMR AGAP), Université Montpellier, Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (CIRAD), Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement (INRA), Institut Agro, Montpellier, France
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- Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (CIRAD), Unité Mixte de Recherche, Institut Amélioration Génétique et Adaptation des Plantes méditerranéennes et Tropicales (UMR AGAP), Montpellier, France
- Unité Mixte de Recherche, Institut Amélioration Génétique et Adaptation des Plantes méditerranéennes et Tropicales (UMR AGAP), Université Montpellier, Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (CIRAD), Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement (INRA), Institut Agro, Montpellier, France
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- Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (CIRAD), Unité Mixte de Recherche, Institut Amélioration Génétique et Adaptation des Plantes méditerranéennes et Tropicales (UMR AGAP), Montpellier, France
- Unité Mixte de Recherche, Institut Amélioration Génétique et Adaptation des Plantes méditerranéennes et Tropicales (UMR AGAP), Université Montpellier, Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (CIRAD), Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement (INRA), Institut Agro, Montpellier, France
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- Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (CIRAD), Unité Mixte de Recherche, Institut Amélioration Génétique et Adaptation des Plantes méditerranéennes et Tropicales (UMR AGAP), Montpellier, France
- Unité Mixte de Recherche, Institut Amélioration Génétique et Adaptation des Plantes méditerranéennes et Tropicales (UMR AGAP), Université Montpellier, Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (CIRAD), Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement (INRA), Institut Agro, Montpellier, France
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- Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (CIRAD), Unité Mixte de Recherche, Institut Amélioration Génétique et Adaptation des Plantes méditerranéennes et Tropicales (UMR AGAP), Montpellier, France
- Unité Mixte de Recherche, Institut Amélioration Génétique et Adaptation des Plantes méditerranéennes et Tropicales (UMR AGAP), Université Montpellier, Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (CIRAD), Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement (INRA), Institut Agro, Montpellier, France
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- Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (CIRAD), Unité Mixte de Recherche, Institut Amélioration Génétique et Adaptation des Plantes méditerranéennes et Tropicales (UMR AGAP), Montpellier, France
- Unité Mixte de Recherche, Institut Amélioration Génétique et Adaptation des Plantes méditerranéennes et Tropicales (UMR AGAP), Université Montpellier, Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (CIRAD), Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement (INRA), Institut Agro, Montpellier, France
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Laurençon M, Legrix J, Wagner MH, Demilly D, Baron C, Rolland S, Ducournau S, Laperche A, Nesi N. Genomic and phenomic predictions help capture low-effect alleles promoting seed germination in oilseed rape in addition to QTL analyses. TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2024; 137:156. [PMID: 38858297 PMCID: PMC11164772 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-024-04659-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2024] [Accepted: 05/25/2024] [Indexed: 06/12/2024]
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KEY MESSAGE Phenomic prediction implemented on a large diversity set can efficiently predict seed germination, capture low-effect favorable alleles that are not revealed by GWAS and identify promising genetic resources. Oilseed rape faces many challenges, especially at the beginning of its developmental cycle. Achieving rapid and uniform seed germination could help to ensure a successful establishment and therefore enabling the crop to compete with weeds and tolerate stresses during the earliest developmental stages. The polygenic nature of seed germination was highlighted in several studies, and more knowledge is needed about low- to moderate-effect underlying loci in order to enhance seed germination effectively by improving the genetic background and incorporating favorable alleles. A total of 17 QTL were detected for seed germination-related traits, for which the favorable alleles often corresponded to the most frequent alleles in the panel. Genomic and phenomic predictions methods provided moderate-to-high predictive abilities, demonstrating the ability to capture small additive and non-additive effects for seed germination. This study also showed that phenomic prediction estimated phenotypic values closer to phenotypic values than GEBV. Finally, as the predictive ability of phenomic prediction was less influenced by the genetic structure of the panel, it is worth using this prediction method to characterize genetic resources, particularly with a view to design prebreeding populations.
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- Marianne Laurençon
- Institute of Genetics, Environment and Plant Protection (IGEPP), INRAE - Institut Agro Rennes-Angers - Université de Rennes, 35650, Le Rheu, France
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- Institute of Genetics, Environment and Plant Protection (IGEPP), INRAE - Institut Agro Rennes-Angers - Université de Rennes, 35650, Le Rheu, France
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- Groupe d'Etude et de Contrôle des Variétés Et des Semences (GEVES), 49070, Beaucouzé, France
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- Groupe d'Etude et de Contrôle des Variétés Et des Semences (GEVES), 49070, Beaucouzé, France
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- Institute of Genetics, Environment and Plant Protection (IGEPP), INRAE - Institut Agro Rennes-Angers - Université de Rennes, 35650, Le Rheu, France
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- Institute of Genetics, Environment and Plant Protection (IGEPP), INRAE - Institut Agro Rennes-Angers - Université de Rennes, 35650, Le Rheu, France
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- Groupe d'Etude et de Contrôle des Variétés Et des Semences (GEVES), 49070, Beaucouzé, France
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- Institute of Genetics, Environment and Plant Protection (IGEPP), INRAE - Institut Agro Rennes-Angers - Université de Rennes, 35650, Le Rheu, France.
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- Institute of Genetics, Environment and Plant Protection (IGEPP), INRAE - Institut Agro Rennes-Angers - Université de Rennes, 35650, Le Rheu, France
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Villiers K, Voss-Fels KP, Dinglasan E, Jacobs B, Hickey L, Hayes BJ. Evolutionary computing to assemble standing genetic diversity and achieve long-term genetic gain. THE PLANT GENOME 2024; 17:e20467. [PMID: 38816340 DOI: 10.1002/tpg2.20467] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2024] [Revised: 04/08/2024] [Accepted: 04/27/2024] [Indexed: 06/01/2024]
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Loss of genetic diversity in elite crop breeding pools can severely limit long-term genetic gains and limit ability to make gains in new traits, like heat tolerance, that are becoming important as the climate changes. Here, we investigate and propose potential breeding program applications of optimal haplotype stacking (OHS), a selection method that retains useful diversity in the population. OHS selects sets of candidates containing, between them, haplotype segments with very high segment breeding values for the target trait. We compared the performance of OHS, a similar method called optimal population value (OPV), truncation selection on genomic estimated breeding values (GEBVs), and optimal contribution selection (OCS) in stochastic simulations of recurrent selection on founder wheat genotypes. After 100 generations of intercrossing and selection, OCS and truncation selection had exhausted the genetic diversity, while considerable diversity remained in the OHS population. Gain under OHS in these simulations ultimately exceeded that from truncation selection or OCS. OHS achieved faster gains when the population size was small, with many progeny per cross. A promising hybrid strategy, involving a single cycle of OHS in the first generation followed by recurrent truncation selection, substantially improved long-term gain compared with truncation selection and performed similarly to OCS. The results of this study provide initial insights into where OHS could be incorporated into breeding programs.
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- Kira Villiers
- Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia
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- Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia
- Department of Grapevine Breeding, Hochschule Geisenheim University, Geisenheim, Germany
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- Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia
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- LongReach Plant Breeders Management Pty Ltd, Lonsdale, South Australia, Australia
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- Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia
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- Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia
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Niehoff TAM, Ten Napel J, Bijma P, Pook T, Wientjes YCJ, Hegedűs B, Calus MPL. Improving selection decisions with mating information by accounting for Mendelian sampling variances looking two generations ahead. Genet Sel Evol 2024; 56:41. [PMID: 38773363 PMCID: PMC11107025 DOI: 10.1186/s12711-024-00899-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2023] [Accepted: 04/03/2024] [Indexed: 05/23/2024] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND Breeding programs are judged by the genetic level of animals that are used to disseminate genetic progress. These animals are typically the best ones of the population. To maximise the genetic level of very good animals in the next generation, parents that are more likely to produce top performing offspring need to be selected. The ability of individuals to produce high-performing progeny differs because of differences in their breeding values and gametic variances. Differences in gametic variances among individuals are caused by differences in heterozygosity and linkage. The use of the gametic Mendelian sampling variance has been proposed before, for use in the usefulness criterion or Index5, and in this work, we extend existing approaches by not only considering the gametic Mendelian sampling variance of individuals, but also of their potential offspring. Thus, the criteria developed in this study plan one additional generation ahead. For simplicity, we assumed that the true quantitative trait loci (QTL) effects, genetic map and the haplotypes of all animals are known. RESULTS In this study, we propose a new selection criterion, ExpBVSelGrOff, which describes the genetic level of selected grand-offspring that are produced by selected offspring of a particular mating. We compare our criterion with other published criteria in a stochastic simulation of an ongoing breeding program for 21 generations for proof of concept. ExpBVSelGrOff performed better than all other tested criteria, like the usefulness criterion or Index5 which have been proposed in the literature, without compromising short-term gains. After only five generations, when selection is strong (1%), selection based on ExpBVSelGrOff achieved 5.8% more commercial genetic gain and retained 25% more genetic variance without compromising inbreeding rate compared to selection based only on breeding values. CONCLUSIONS Our proposed selection criterion offers a new tool to accelerate genetic progress for contemporary genomic breeding programs. It retains more genetic variance than previously published criteria that plan less far ahead. Considering future gametic Mendelian sampling variances in the selection process also seems promising for maintaining more genetic variance.
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Grants
- TKI Agri This study was financially supported by the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs (TKI Agri & Food Project LWV20054) and the Breed4Food partners Cobb Europe (Colchester, Essex, United Kingdom), CRV (Arnhem, the Netherlands), Hendrix Genetics (Boxmeer, the Net
- Food Project LWV20054 This study was financially supported by the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs (TKI Agri & Food Project LWV20054) and the Breed4Food partners Cobb Europe (Colchester, Essex, United Kingdom), CRV (Arnhem, the Netherlands), Hendrix Genetics (Boxmeer, the Net
- This study was financially supported by the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs (TKI Agri & Food Project LWV20054) and the Breed4Food partners Cobb Europe (Colchester, Essex, United Kingdom), CRV (Arnhem, the Netherlands), Hendrix Genetics (Boxmeer, the Net
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- Tobias A M Niehoff
- Animal Breeding and Genomics, Wageningen University and Research, Droevendaalsesteeg 1, 6700AH, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
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- Animal Breeding and Genomics, Wageningen University and Research, Droevendaalsesteeg 1, 6700AH, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Animal Breeding and Genomics, Wageningen University and Research, Droevendaalsesteeg 1, 6700AH, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Animal Breeding and Genomics, Wageningen University and Research, Droevendaalsesteeg 1, 6700AH, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Animal Breeding and Genomics, Wageningen University and Research, Droevendaalsesteeg 1, 6700AH, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Animal Breeding and Genomics, Wageningen University and Research, Droevendaalsesteeg 1, 6700AH, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Animal Breeding and Genomics, Wageningen University and Research, Droevendaalsesteeg 1, 6700AH, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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Kunkel D, Sørensen P, Shankar V, Morgante F. Improving polygenic prediction from summary data by learning patterns of effect sharing across multiple phenotypes. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2024:2024.05.06.592745. [PMID: 38766136 PMCID: PMC11100663 DOI: 10.1101/2024.05.06.592745] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2024]
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Polygenic prediction of complex trait phenotypes has become important in human genetics, especially in the context of precision medicine. Recently, Morgante et al. introduced mr.mash, a flexible and computationally efficient method that models multiple phenotypes jointly and leverages sharing of effects across such phenotypes to improve prediction accuracy. However, a drawback of mr.mash is that it requires individual-level data, which are often not publicly available. In this work, we introduce mr.mash-rss, an extension of the mr.mash model that requires only summary statistics from Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS) and linkage disequilibrium (LD) estimates from a reference panel. By using summary data, we achieve the twin goal of increasing the applicability of the mr.mash model to data sets that are not publicly available and making it scalable to biobank-size data. Through simulations, we show that mr.mash-rss is competitive with, and often outperforms, current state-of-the-art methods for single- and multi-phenotype polygenic prediction in a variety of scenarios that differ in the pattern of effect sharing across phenotypes, the number of phenotypes, the number of causal variants, and the genomic heritability. We also present a real data analysis of 16 blood cell phenotypes in UK Biobank, showing that mr.mash-rss achieves higher prediction accuracy than competing methods for the majority of traits, especially when the data has smaller sample size.
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- Deborah Kunkel
- School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, United States of America
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- Center for Quantitative Genetics and Genomics, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Center for Human Genetics, Clemson University, Greenwood, SC, United States of America
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- Center for Human Genetics, Clemson University, Greenwood, SC, United States of America
- Department of Genetics and Biochemistry, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, United States of America
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Foster TL, Kloiber-Maitz M, Gilles L, Frei UK, Pfeffer S, Chen YR, Dutta S, Seetharam AS, Hufford MB, Lübberstedt T. Fine mapping of major QTL qshgd1 for spontaneous haploid genome doubling in maize (Zea mays L.). TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2024; 137:117. [PMID: 38700534 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-024-04615-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2023] [Accepted: 04/04/2024] [Indexed: 05/09/2024]
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KEY MESSAGE A large-effect QTL was fine mapped, which revealed 79 gene models, with 10 promising candidate genes, along with a novel inversion. In commercial maize breeding, doubled haploid (DH) technology is arguably the most efficient resource for rapidly developing novel, completely homozygous lines. However, the DH strategy, using in vivo haploid induction, currently requires the use of mutagenic agents which can be not only hazardous, but laborious. This study focuses on an alternative approach to develop DH lines-spontaneous haploid genome duplication (SHGD) via naturally restored haploid male fertility (HMF). Inbred lines A427 and Wf9, the former with high HMF and the latter with low HMF, were selected to fine-map a large-effect QTL associated with SHGD-qshgd1. SHGD alleles were derived from A427, with novel haploid recombinant groups having varying levels of the A427 chromosomal region recovered. The chromosomal region of interest is composed of 45 megabases (Mb) of genetic information on chromosome 5. Significant differences between haploid recombinant groups for HMF were identified, signaling the possibility of mapping the QTL more closely. Due to suppression of recombination from the proximity of the centromere, and a newly discovered inversion region, the associated QTL was only confined to a 25 Mb region, within which only a single recombinant was observed among ca. 9,000 BC1 individuals. Nevertheless, 79 gene models were identified within this 25 Mb region. Additionally, 10 promising candidate genes, based on RNA-seq data, are described for future evaluation, while the narrowed down genome region is accessible for straightforward introgression into elite germplasm by BC methods.
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- Tyler L Foster
- Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 50011, USA.
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- Limagrain Europe SAS, Research Centre, 63720, Chappes, France
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- Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 50011, USA
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- Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 50011, USA
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- Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 50011, USA
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- Department of Statistics, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 50011, USA
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 50011, USA
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 50011, USA
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Rossi N, Powell W, Mackay IJ, Hickey L, Maurer A, Pillen K, Halliday K, Sharma R. Investigating the genetic control of plant development in spring barley under speed breeding conditions. TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2024; 137:115. [PMID: 38691245 PMCID: PMC11063105 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-024-04618-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2023] [Accepted: 04/08/2024] [Indexed: 05/03/2024]
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KEY MESSAGE This study found that the genes, PPD-H1 and ELF3, control the acceleration of plant development under speed breeding, with important implications for optimizing the delivery of climate-resilient crops. Speed breeding is a tool to accelerate breeding and research programmes. Despite its success and growing popularity with breeders, the genetic basis of plant development under speed breeding remains unknown. This study explored the developmental advancements of barley genotypes under different photoperiod regimes. A subset of the HEB-25 Nested Association Mapping population was evaluated for days to heading and maturity under two contrasting photoperiod conditions: (1) Speed breeding (SB) consisting of 22 h of light and 2 h of darkness, and (2) normal breeding (NB) consisting of 16 h of light and 8 h of darkness. GWAS revealed that developmental responses under both conditions were largely controlled by two loci: PPDH-1 and ELF3. Allelic variants at these genes determine whether plants display early flowering and maturity under both conditions. At key QTL regions, domesticated alleles were associated with late flowering and maturity in NB and early flowering and maturity in SB, whereas wild alleles were associated with early flowering under both conditions. We hypothesize that this is related to the dark-dependent repression of PPD-H1 by ELF3 which might be more prominent in NB conditions. Furthermore, by comparing development under two photoperiod regimes, we derived an estimate of plasticity for the two traits. Interestingly, plasticity in development was largely attributed to allelic variation at ELF3. Our results have important implications for our understanding and optimization of speed breeding protocols particularly for introgression breeding and the design of breeding programmes to support the delivery of climate-resilient crops.
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- Nicola Rossi
- Scotland's Rural College (SRUC), Kings Buildings, West Mains Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3JG, UK
- Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH9 3BF, UK
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- Scotland's Rural College (SRUC), Kings Buildings, West Mains Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3JG, UK
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- Scotland's Rural College (SRUC), Kings Buildings, West Mains Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3JG, UK
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- Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
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- Chair of Plant Breeding, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Betty-Heimann-Str. 3, 06120, Halle, Germany
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- Chair of Plant Breeding, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Betty-Heimann-Str. 3, 06120, Halle, Germany
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- Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH9 3BF, UK
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- Scotland's Rural College (SRUC), Kings Buildings, West Mains Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3JG, UK.
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Aalborg T, Sverrisdóttir E, Kristensen HT, Nielsen KL. The effect of marker types and density on genomic prediction and GWAS of key performance traits in tetraploid potato. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2024; 15:1340189. [PMID: 38525152 PMCID: PMC10957621 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2024.1340189] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2023] [Accepted: 02/14/2024] [Indexed: 03/26/2024]
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Genomic prediction and genome-wide association studies are becoming widely employed in potato key performance trait QTL identifications and to support potato breeding using genomic selection. Elite cultivars are tetraploid and highly heterozygous but also share many common ancestors and generation-spanning inbreeding events, resulting from the clonal propagation of potatoes through seed potatoes. Consequentially, many SNP markers are not in a 1:1 relationship with a single allele variant but shared over several alleles that might exert varying effects on a given trait. The impact of such redundant "diluted" predictors on the statistical models underpinning genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and genomic prediction has scarcely been evaluated despite the potential impact on model accuracy and performance. We evaluated the impact of marker location, marker type, and marker density on the genomic prediction and GWAS of five key performance traits in tetraploid potato (chipping quality, dry matter content, length/width ratio, senescence, and yield). A 762-offspring panel of a diallel cross of 18 elite cultivars was genotyped by sequencing, and markers were annotated according to a reference genome. Genomic prediction models (GBLUP) were trained on four marker subsets [non-synonymous (29,553 SNPs), synonymous (31,229), non-coding (32,388), and a combination], and robustness to marker reduction was investigated. Single-marker regression GWAS was performed for each trait and marker subset. The best cross-validated prediction correlation coefficients of 0.54, 0.75, 0.49, 0.35, and 0.28 were obtained for chipping quality, dry matter content, length/width ratio, senescence, and yield, respectively. The trait prediction abilities were similar across all marker types, with only non-synonymous variants improving yield predictive ability by 16%. Marker reduction response did not depend on marker type but rather on trait. Traits with high predictive abilities, e.g., dry matter content, reached a plateau using fewer markers than traits with intermediate-low correlations, such as yield. The predictions were unbiased across all traits, marker types, and all marker densities >100 SNPs. Our results suggest that using non-synonymous variants does not enhance the performance of genomic prediction of most traits. The major known QTLs were identified by GWAS and were reproducible across exonic and whole-genome variant sets for dry matter content, length/width ratio, and senescence. In contrast, minor QTL detection was marker type dependent.
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- Trine Aalborg
- Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
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Bassi FM, Sanchez-Garcia M, Ortiz R. What plant breeding may (and may not) look like in 2050? THE PLANT GENOME 2024; 17:e20368. [PMID: 37455348 DOI: 10.1002/tpg2.20368] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/01/2023] [Revised: 06/23/2023] [Accepted: 06/26/2023] [Indexed: 07/18/2023]
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At the turn of 2000 many authors envisioned future plant breeding. Twenty years after, which of those authors' visions became reality or not, and which ones may become so in the years to come. After two decades of debates, climate change is a "certainty," food systems shifted from maximizing farm production to reducing environmental impact, and hopes placed into GMOs are mitigated by their low appreciation by consumers. We revise herein how plant breeding may raise or reduce genetic gains based on the breeder's equation. "Accuracy of Selection" has significantly improved by many experimental-scale field and laboratory implements, but also by vulgarizing statistical models, and integrating DNA markers into selection. Pre-breeding has really promoted the increase of useful "Genetic Variance." Shortening "Recycling Time" has seen great progression, to the point that achieving a denominator equal to "1" is becoming a possibility. Maintaining high "Selection Intensity" remains the biggest challenge, since adding any technology results in a higher cost per progeny, despite the steady reduction in cost per datapoint. Furthermore, the concepts of variety and seed enterprise might change with the advent of cheaper genomic tools to monitor their use and the promotion of participatory or citizen science. The technological and societal changes influence the new generation of plant breeders, moving them further away from field work, emphasizing instead the use of genomic-based selection methods relying on big data. We envisage what skills plant breeders of tomorrow might need to address challenges, and whether their time in the field may dwindle.
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- Filippo M Bassi
- International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), Rabat, Morocco
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- International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), Rabat, Morocco
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- Department of Plant Breeding, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Lomma, Sweden
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Montesinos-López OA, Solis-Camacho MA, Crespo-Herrera L, Saint Pierre C, Huerta Prado GI, Ramos-Pulido S, Al-Nowibet K, Fritsche-Neto R, Gerard G, Montesinos-López A, Crossa J. Data Augmentation Enhances Plant-Genomic-Enabled Predictions. Genes (Basel) 2024; 15:286. [PMID: 38540344 PMCID: PMC10969940 DOI: 10.3390/genes15030286] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2024] [Revised: 02/16/2024] [Accepted: 02/21/2024] [Indexed: 06/14/2024] Open
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Genomic selection (GS) is revolutionizing plant breeding. However, its practical implementation is still challenging, since there are many factors that affect its accuracy. For this reason, this research explores data augmentation with the goal of improving its accuracy. Deep neural networks with data augmentation (DA) generate synthetic data from the original training set to increase the training set and to improve the prediction performance of any statistical or machine learning algorithm. There is much empirical evidence of their success in many computer vision applications. Due to this, DA was explored in the context of GS using 14 real datasets. We found empirical evidence that DA is a powerful tool to improve the prediction accuracy, since we improved the prediction accuracy of the top lines in the 14 datasets under study. On average, across datasets and traits, the gain in prediction performance of the DA approach regarding the Conventional method in the top 20% of lines in the testing set was 108.4% in terms of the NRMSE and 107.4% in terms of the MAAPE, but a worse performance was observed on the whole testing set. We encourage more empirical evaluations to support our findings.
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- Osval A. Montesinos-López
- Facultad de Telemática, Universidad de Colima, Colima 28040, Colima, Mexico; (O.A.M.-L.); (M.A.S.-C.)
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- International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Km 45, Carretera Mexico-Veracruz, Texcoco 52640, Edo. de México, Mexico; (L.C.-H.); (C.S.P.); (G.G.)
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- International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Km 45, Carretera Mexico-Veracruz, Texcoco 52640, Edo. de México, Mexico; (L.C.-H.); (C.S.P.); (G.G.)
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- Centro Universitario de Ciencias Exactas e Ingenierías (CUCEI), Universidad de Guadalajara, Guadalajara 44430, Jalisco, Mexico;
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- Distinguish Scientist Fellowship Program and Department of Statistics and Operations Research, King Saud University, Riyah 11451, Saudi Arabia;
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- International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Km 45, Carretera Mexico-Veracruz, Texcoco 52640, Edo. de México, Mexico; (L.C.-H.); (C.S.P.); (G.G.)
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- Centro Universitario de Ciencias Exactas e Ingenierías (CUCEI), Universidad de Guadalajara, Guadalajara 44430, Jalisco, Mexico;
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- International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Km 45, Carretera Mexico-Veracruz, Texcoco 52640, Edo. de México, Mexico; (L.C.-H.); (C.S.P.); (G.G.)
- Distinguish Scientist Fellowship Program and Department of Statistics and Operations Research, King Saud University, Riyah 11451, Saudi Arabia;
- Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA;
- Colegio de Postgraduados, Montecillo 56230, Edo. de México, Mexico
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Stock M, Pieters O, De Swaef T, wyffels F. Plant science in the age of simulation intelligence. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2024; 14:1299208. [PMID: 38293629 PMCID: PMC10824965 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2023.1299208] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2023] [Accepted: 12/07/2023] [Indexed: 02/01/2024]
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Historically, plant and crop sciences have been quantitative fields that intensively use measurements and modeling. Traditionally, researchers choose between two dominant modeling approaches: mechanistic plant growth models or data-driven, statistical methodologies. At the intersection of both paradigms, a novel approach referred to as "simulation intelligence", has emerged as a powerful tool for comprehending and controlling complex systems, including plants and crops. This work explores the transformative potential for the plant science community of the nine simulation intelligence motifs, from understanding molecular plant processes to optimizing greenhouse control. Many of these concepts, such as surrogate models and agent-based modeling, have gained prominence in plant and crop sciences. In contrast, some motifs, such as open-ended optimization or program synthesis, still need to be explored further. The motifs of simulation intelligence can potentially revolutionize breeding and precision farming towards more sustainable food production.
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- Michiel Stock
- KERMIT and Biobix, Department of Data Analysis and Mathematical Modelling, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- IDLAB-AIRO, Ghent University, imec, Ghent, Belgium
- Plant Sciences Unit, Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Melle, Belgium
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- Plant Sciences Unit, Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Melle, Belgium
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Montesinos-López A, Gutiérrez-Pulido H, Ramos-Pulido S, Montesinos-López JC, Montesinos-López OA, Crossa J. Bayesian discrete lognormal regression model for genomic prediction. TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2024; 137:21. [PMID: 38221602 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-023-04526-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2023] [Accepted: 12/11/2023] [Indexed: 01/16/2024]
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KEY MESSAGE Genomic prediction models for quantitative traits assume continuous and normally distributed phenotypes. In this research, we proposed a novel Bayesian discrete lognormal regression model. Genomic selection is a powerful tool in modern breeding programs that uses genomic information to predict the performance of individuals and select those with desirable traits. It has revolutionized animal and plant breeding, as it allows breeders to identify the best candidates without labor-intensive and time-consuming phenotypic evaluations. While several statistical models have been developed, most of them have been for quantitative continuous traits and only a few for count responses. In this paper, we propose a discrete lognormal regression model in the Bayesian context, that with a Gibbs sampler to explore the corresponding posterior distribution and make the predictions. Two datasets of resistance disease is used in the wheat crop and are then evaluated against the traditional Gaussian model and a lognormal model. The results indicate the proposed model is a competitive and natural model for predicting count genomic traits.
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- Abelardo Montesinos-López
- Departamento de Matemáticas, Centro Universitario de Ciencias Exactas e Ingenierías (CUCEI), Universidad de Guadalajara, C. P. 44430, Guadalajara, Jalisco, México
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- Departamento de Matemáticas, Centro Universitario de Ciencias Exactas e Ingenierías (CUCEI), Universidad de Guadalajara, C. P. 44430, Guadalajara, Jalisco, México
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- Departamento de Matemáticas, Centro Universitario de Ciencias Exactas e Ingenierías (CUCEI), Universidad de Guadalajara, C. P. 44430, Guadalajara, Jalisco, México
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- International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Carretera México-Veracruz Km. 45, El Batán, C. P. 56237, Texcoco, Edo. de México, México.
- Colegio de Postgraduados, C. P. 56230, Montecillos, Edo. de México, México.
- Centre for Crop & Food Innovation, Food Futures Institute, Murdoch University, Murdoch, 6150, Australia.
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Pandey J, Gautam S, Scheuring DC, Koym JW, Vales MI. Variation and genetic basis of mineral content in potato tubers and prospects for genomic selection. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2023; 14:1301297. [PMID: 38186596 PMCID: PMC10766833 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2023.1301297] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2023] [Accepted: 12/05/2023] [Indexed: 01/09/2024]
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Malnutrition is a major public health concern in many parts of the world. Among other nutrients, minerals are necessary in the human diet. Potato tubers are a good source of minerals; they contribute 18% of the recommended dietary allowance of potassium; 6% of copper, phosphorus, and magnesium; and 2% of calcium and zinc. Increased public interest in improving the nutritional value of foods has prompted the evaluation of mineral content in tubers of advanced genotypes from the Texas A&M Potato Breeding Program and the investigation of the genetics underlying mineral composition in tubers. The objectives of this study were to i) assess phenotypic variation for mineral content in tubers of advanced potato genotypes, ii) identify genomic regions associated with tuber mineral content, and iii) obtain genomic-estimated breeding values. A panel of 214 advanced potato genotypes and reference varieties was phenotyped in three field environments in Texas for the content of 12 minerals in tubers and genotyped using the Infinium Illumina 22K V3 single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) Array. There was significant variation between potato genotypes for all minerals evaluated except iron. As a market group, red-skinned potatoes had the highest amount of minerals, whereas russets had the lowest mineral content. Reds had significantly higher P, K, S, and Zn than russets and significantly higher P and Mg than chippers. Russets had significantly higher Ca, Mg, and Na than chippers. However, the chippers had significantly higher K than the russets. A genome-wide association study for mineral content using GWASpoly identified three quantitative trait loci (QTL) associated with potassium and manganese content on chromosome 5 and two QTL associated with zinc content on chromosome 7. The loci identified will contribute to a better understanding of the genetic basis of mineral content in potatoes. Genomic-estimated breeding values for mineral macro and micronutrients in tubers obtained with StageWise will guide the selection of parents and the advancement of genotypes in the breeding program to increase mineral content in potato tubers.
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- Jeewan Pandey
- Department of Horticultural Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States
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- Department of Horticultural Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States
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- Department of Horticultural Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States
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- Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center, Lubbock, TX, United States
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- Department of Horticultural Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States
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Hassanpour A, Geibel J, Simianer H, Pook T. Optimization of breeding program design through stochastic simulation with kernel regression. G3 (BETHESDA, MD.) 2023; 13:jkad217. [PMID: 37742059 PMCID: PMC10700053 DOI: 10.1093/g3journal/jkad217] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2023] [Revised: 07/29/2023] [Accepted: 09/02/2023] [Indexed: 09/25/2023]
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In recent years, breeding programs have increased significantly in size and complexity, with various highly interdependent parameters and many contrasting breeding goals. As a result, resource allocation in these programs has become more complex, and deriving an optimal breeding strategy has become increasingly challenging. To address this, a common practice is to reduce the optimization problem to a set of scenarios that differ only in a few parameters and can therefore be analyzed in detail. The goal of this article is to provide a framework for the numerical optimization of breeding programs that goes beyond the simple comparison of scenarios. For this, we first determine the space of potential breeding programs only limited by basic constraints like the budget and housing capacities. Subsequently, the goal is to identify the optimal breeding program by finding the parametrization that maximizes the target function by combining different breeding goals. To assess the value of the target function for a parametrization, we propose using stochastic simulations and the subsequent use of a kernel regression method to cope with the stochasticity of simulation outcomes. This procedure is performed iteratively to narrow down the most promising areas of the search space and perform more and more simulations in these areas of interest. In a simplified example applied to a dairy cattle program, our proposed framework has shown its ability to identify an optimal breeding strategy that aligns with a target function aiming at genetic gain and genetic diversity conservation limited by budget constraints.
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- Azadeh Hassanpour
- Department of Animal Sciences, Center for Integrated Breeding Research, Animal Breeding and Genetics Group, University of Goettingen, 37075 Goettingen, Germany
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- Department of Animal Sciences, Center for Integrated Breeding Research, Animal Breeding and Genetics Group, University of Goettingen, 37075 Goettingen, Germany
- Institute of Farm Animal Genetics, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, 31535 Neustadt, Germany
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- Department of Animal Sciences, Center for Integrated Breeding Research, Animal Breeding and Genetics Group, University of Goettingen, 37075 Goettingen, Germany
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- Department of Animal Sciences, Center for Integrated Breeding Research, Animal Breeding and Genetics Group, University of Goettingen, 37075 Goettingen, Germany
- Wageningen University & Research, Animal Breeding and Genomics, 6700 AH Wageningen, Netherlands
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Minow MAA, Marand AP, Schmitz RJ. Leveraging Single-Cell Populations to Uncover the Genetic Basis of Complex Traits. Annu Rev Genet 2023; 57:297-319. [PMID: 37562412 PMCID: PMC10775913 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-genet-022123-110824] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/12/2023]
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The ease and throughput of single-cell genomics have steadily improved, and its current trajectory suggests that surveying single-cell populations will become routine. We discuss the merger of quantitative genetics with single-cell genomics and emphasize how this synergizes with advantages intrinsic to plants. Single-cell population genomics provides increased detection resolution when mapping variants that control molecular traits, including gene expression or chromatin accessibility. Additionally, single-cell population genomics reveals the cell types in which variants act and, when combined with organism-level phenotype measurements, unveils which cellular contexts impact higher-order traits. Emerging technologies, notably multiomics, can facilitate the measurement of both genetic changes and genomic traits in single cells, enabling single-cell genetic experiments. The implementation of single-cell genetics will advance the investigation of the genetic architecture of complex molecular traits and provide new experimental paradigms to study eukaryotic genetics.
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- Mark A A Minow
- Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA;
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- Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA;
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Liu H, Yu S. A dimensionality-reduction genomic prediction method without direct inverse of the genomic relationship matrix for large genomic data. PLANT CELL REPORTS 2023; 42:1825-1832. [PMID: 37750948 DOI: 10.1007/s00299-023-03069-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2023] [Accepted: 09/08/2023] [Indexed: 09/27/2023]
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KEY MESSAGE A new genomic prediction method (RHPP) was developed via combining randomized Haseman-Elston regression (RHE-reg), PCR based on genomic information of core population, and preconditioned conjugate gradient (PCG) algorithm. Computational efficiency is becoming a hot issue in the practical application of genomic prediction due to the large number of data generated by the high-throughput genotyping technology. In this study, we developed a fast genomic prediction method RHPP via combining randomized Haseman-Elston regression (RHE-reg), PCR based on genomic information of core population, and preconditioned conjugate gradient (PCG) algorithm. The simulation results demonstrated similar prediction accuracy between RHPP and GBLUP, and significantly higher computational efficiency of the former with the increase of individuals. The results of real datasets of both bread wheat and loblolly pine demonstrated that RHPP had a similar or better predictive accuracy in most cases compared with GBLUP. In the future, RHPP may be an attractive choice for analyzing large-scale and high-dimensional data.
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- Hailan Liu
- Maize Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, 611130, Sichuan, China.
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- Molecular Genetics Key Laboratory of China Tobacco, Guizhou Academy of Tobacco Science, Guiyang, 550081, Guizhou, China.
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Simiqueli GF, Resende RT, Takahashi EK, de Sousa JE, Grattapaglia D. Realized genomic selection across generations in a reciprocal recurrent selection breeding program of Eucalyptus hybrids. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2023; 14:1252504. [PMID: 37965018 PMCID: PMC10641691 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2023.1252504] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2023] [Accepted: 09/29/2023] [Indexed: 11/16/2023]
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Introduction Genomic selection (GS) experiments in forest trees have largely reported estimates of predictive abilities from cross-validation among individuals in the same breeding generation. In such conditions, no effects of recombination, selection, drift, and environmental changes are accounted for. Here, we assessed the effectively realized predictive ability (RPA) for volume growth at harvest age by GS across generations in an operational reciprocal recurrent selection (RRS) program of hybrid Eucalyptus. Methods Genomic best linear unbiased prediction with additive (GBLUP_G), additive plus dominance (GBLUP_G+D), and additive single-step (HBLUP) models were trained with different combinations of growth data of hybrids and pure species individuals (N = 17,462) of the G1 generation, 1,944 of which were genotyped with ~16,000 SNPs from SNP arrays. The hybrid G2 progeny trial (HPT267) was the GS target, with 1,400 selection candidates, 197 of which were genotyped still at the seedling stage, and genomically predicted for their breeding and genotypic values at the operational harvest age (6 years). Seedlings were then grown to harvest and measured, and their pedigree-based breeding and genotypic values were compared to their originally predicted genomic counterparts. Results Genomic RPAs ≥0.80 were obtained as the genetic relatedness between G1 and G2 increased, especially when the direct parents of selection candidates were used in training. GBLUP_G+D reached RPAs ≥0.70 only when hybrid or pure species data of G1 were included in training. HBLUP was only marginally better than GBLUP. Correlations ≥0.80 were obtained between pedigree and genomic individual ranks. Rank coincidence of the top 2.5% selections was the highest for GBLUP_G (45% to 60%) compared to GBLUP_G+D. To advance the pure species RRS populations, GS models were best when trained on pure species than hybrid data, and HBLUP yielded ~20% higher predictive abilities than GBLUP, but was not better than ABLUP for ungenotyped trees. Discussion We demonstrate that genomic data effectively enable accurate ranking of eucalypt hybrid seedlings for their yet-to-be observed volume growth at harvest age. Our results support a two-stage GS approach involving family selection by average genomic breeding value, followed by within-top-families individual GS, significantly increasing selection intensity, optimizing genotyping costs, and accelerating RRS breeding.
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- School of Agronomy, Federal University of Goiás (UFG), Goiânia, GO, Brazil
- Department of Forestry, University of Brasília (UnB), Brasília, DF, Brazil
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- Plant Genetics Laboratory, EMBRAPA Genetic Resources and Biotechnology, Brasilia, Brazil
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Dallinger HG, Löschenberger F, Bistrich H, Ametz C, Hetzendorfer H, Morales L, Michel S, Buerstmayr H. Predictor bias in genomic and phenomic selection. TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2023; 136:235. [PMID: 37878079 PMCID: PMC10600307 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-023-04479-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2023] [Accepted: 09/08/2023] [Indexed: 10/26/2023]
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KEY MESSAGE NIRS of wheat grains as phenomic predictors for grain yield show inflated prediction ability and are biased toward grain protein content. Estimating the breeding value of individuals using genome-wide marker data (genomic prediction) is currently one of the most important drivers of breeding progress in major crops. Recently, phenomic technologies, including remote sensing and aerial hyperspectral imaging of plant canopies, have made it feasible to predict the breeding value of individuals in the absence of genetic marker data. This is commonly referred to as phenomic prediction. Hyperspectral measurements in the form of near-infrared spectroscopy have been used since the 1980 s to predict compositional parameters of harvest products. Moreover, in recent studies NIRS from grains was used to predict grain yield. The same studies showed that phenomic prediction can outperform genomic prediction for grain yield. The genome is static and not environment dependent, thereby limiting genomic prediction ability. Gene expression is tissue specific and differs under environmental influences, leading to a tissue- and environment-specific phenome, potentially explaining the higher predictive ability of phenomic prediction. Here, we compare genomic prediction and phenomic prediction from hyperspectral measurements of wheat grains for the prediction of a variety of traits including grain yield. We show that phenomic predictions outperform genomic prediction for some traits. However, phenomic predictions are biased toward the information present in the predictor. Future studies on this topic should investigate whether population parameters are retained in phenomic prediction as they are in genomic prediction. Furthermore, we find that unbiased phenomic prediction abilities are considerably lower than previously reported and recommend a method to circumvent this issue.
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- Hermann Gregor Dallinger
- Institute of Biotechnology in Plant Production, Department of Agrobiotechnology, IFA-Tulln, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Konrad-Lorenz-Str. 20, 3430, Tulln, Austria.
- Saatzucht Donau GesmbH & Co KG, Saatzuchtstrasse 11, 2301, Probstdorf, Austria.
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- Saatzucht Donau GesmbH & Co KG, Saatzuchtstrasse 11, 2301, Probstdorf, Austria
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- Saatzucht Donau GesmbH & Co KG, Saatzuchtstrasse 11, 2301, Probstdorf, Austria
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- Institute of Biotechnology in Plant Production, Department of Agrobiotechnology, IFA-Tulln, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Konrad-Lorenz-Str. 20, 3430, Tulln, Austria
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- Institute of Biotechnology in Plant Production, Department of Agrobiotechnology, IFA-Tulln, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Konrad-Lorenz-Str. 20, 3430, Tulln, Austria
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- Institute of Biotechnology in Plant Production, Department of Agrobiotechnology, IFA-Tulln, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Konrad-Lorenz-Str. 20, 3430, Tulln, Austria
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Weber SE, Frisch M, Snowdon RJ, Voss-Fels KP. Haplotype blocks for genomic prediction: a comparative evaluation in multiple crop datasets. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2023; 14:1217589. [PMID: 37731980 PMCID: PMC10507710 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2023.1217589] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2023] [Accepted: 08/21/2023] [Indexed: 09/22/2023]
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In modern plant breeding, genomic selection is becoming the gold standard for selection of superior genotypes. The basis for genomic prediction models is a set of phenotyped lines along with their genotypic profile. With high marker density and linkage disequilibrium (LD) between markers, genotype data in breeding populations tends to exhibit considerable redundancy. Therefore, interest is growing in the use of haplotype blocks to overcome redundancy by summarizing co-inherited features. Moreover, haplotype blocks can help to capture local epistasis caused by interacting loci. Here, we compared genomic prediction methods that either used single SNPs or haplotype blocks with regards to their prediction accuracy for important traits in crop datasets. We used four published datasets from canola, maize, wheat and soybean. Different approaches to construct haplotype blocks were compared, including blocks based on LD, physical distance, number of adjacent markers and the algorithms implemented in the software "Haploview" and "HaploBlocker". The tested prediction methods included Genomic Best Linear Unbiased Prediction (GBLUP), Extended GBLUP to account for additive by additive epistasis (EGBLUP), Bayesian LASSO and Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space (RKHS) regression. We found improved prediction accuracy in some traits when using haplotype blocks compared to SNP-based predictions, however the magnitude of improvement was very trait- and model-specific. Especially in settings with low marker density, haplotype blocks can improve genomic prediction accuracy. In most cases, physically large haplotype blocks yielded a strong decrease in prediction accuracy. Especially when prediction accuracy varies greatly across different prediction models, prediction based on haplotype blocks can improve prediction accuracy of underperforming models. However, there is no "best" method to build haplotype blocks, since prediction accuracy varied considerably across methods and traits. Hence, criteria used to define haplotype blocks should not be viewed as fixed biological parameters, but rather as hyperparameters that need to be adjusted for every dataset.
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- Sven E. Weber
- Department of Plant Breeding, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany
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- Department of Biometry and Population Genetics, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany
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- Department of Plant Breeding, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany
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- Institute for Grapevine Breeding, Hochschule Geisenheim University, Geisenheim, Germany
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Guo X, Sarup P, Jahoor A, Jensen J, Christensen OF. Metabolomic-genomic prediction can improve prediction accuracy of breeding values for malting quality traits in barley. Genet Sel Evol 2023; 55:61. [PMID: 37670243 PMCID: PMC10478459 DOI: 10.1186/s12711-023-00835-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2023] [Accepted: 08/24/2023] [Indexed: 09/07/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Metabolomics measures an intermediate stage between genotype and phenotype, and may therefore be useful for breeding. Our objectives were to investigate genetic parameters and accuracies of predicted breeding values for malting quality (MQ) traits when integrating both genomic and metabolomic information. In total, 2430 plots of 562 malting spring barley lines from three years and two locations were included. Five MQ traits were measured in wort produced from each plot. Metabolomic features used were 24,018 nuclear magnetic resonance intensities measured on each wort sample. Methods for statistical analyses were genomic best linear unbiased prediction (GBLUP) and metabolomic-genomic best linear unbiased prediction (MGBLUP). Accuracies of predicted breeding values were compared using two cross-validation strategies: leave-one-year-out (LOYO) and leave-one-line-out (LOLO), and the increase in accuracy from the successive inclusion of first, metabolomic data on the lines in the validation population (VP), and second, both metabolomic data and phenotypes on the lines in the VP, was investigated using the linear regression (LR) method. RESULTS For all traits, we saw that the metabolome-mediated heritability was substantial. Cross-validation results showed that, in general, prediction accuracies from MGBLUP and GBLUP were similar when phenotypes and metabolomic data were recorded on the same plots. Results from the LR method showed that for all traits, except one, accuracy of MGBLUP increased when including metabolomic data on the lines of the VP, and further increased when including also phenotypes. However, in general the increase in accuracy of MGBLUP when including both metabolomic data and phenotypes on lines of the VP was similar to the increase in accuracy of GBLUP when including phenotypes on the lines of the VP. Therefore, we found that, when metabolomic data were included on the lines of the VP, accuracies substantially increased for lines without phenotypic records, but they did not increase much when phenotypes were already known. CONCLUSIONS MGBLUP is a useful approach to combine phenotypic, genomic and metabolomic data for predicting breeding values for MQ traits. We believe that our results have significant implications for practical breeding of barley and potentially many other species.
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- Xiangyu Guo
- Center for Quantitative Genetics and Genomics, Aarhus University, 8000, Aarhus C, Denmark
- Danish Pig Research Centre, Danish Agriculture and Food Council, 1609, Copenhagen V, Denmark
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- Nordic Seed A/S, 8300, Odder, Denmark
- Department of Plant Breeding, The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 2353, Alnarp, Sweden
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- Center for Quantitative Genetics and Genomics, Aarhus University, 8000, Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Center for Quantitative Genetics and Genomics, Aarhus University, 8000, Aarhus C, Denmark.
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Melchinger AE, Frisch M. Genomic prediction in hybrid breeding: II. Reciprocal recurrent genomic selection with full-sib and half-sib families. TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2023; 136:203. [PMID: 37653062 PMCID: PMC10471712 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-023-04446-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2023] [Accepted: 08/09/2023] [Indexed: 09/02/2023]
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KEY MESSAGE Genomic prediction of GCA effects based on model training with full-sib rather than half-sib families yields higher short- and long-term selection gain in reciprocal recurrent genomic selection for hybrid breeding, if SCA effects are important. Reciprocal recurrent genomic selection (RRGS) is a powerful tool for ensuring sustainable selection progress in hybrid breeding. For training the statistical model, one can use half-sib (HS) or full-sib (FS) families produced by inter-population crosses of candidates from the two parent populations. Our objective was to compare HS-RRGS and FS-RRGS for the cumulative selection gain ([Formula: see text]), the genetic, GCA and SCA variances ([Formula: see text],[Formula: see text], [Formula: see text]) of the hybrid population, and prediction accuracy ([Formula: see text]) for GCA effects across cycles. Using SNP data from maize and wheat, we simulated RRGS programs over 10 cycles, each consisting of four sub-cycles with genomic selection of [Formula: see text] out of 950 candidates in each parent population. Scenarios differed for heritability [Formula: see text] and the proportion [Formula: see text] of traits, training set (TS) size ([Formula: see text]), and maize vs. wheat. Curves of [Formula: see text] over selection cycles showed no crossing of both methods. If [Formula: see text] was high, [Formula: see text] was generally higher for FS-RRGS than HS-RRGS due to higher [Formula: see text]. In contrast, HS-RRGS was superior or on par with FS-RRGS, if [Formula: see text] or [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] were low. [Formula: see text] showed a steeper increase and higher selection limit for scenarios with low [Formula: see text], high [Formula: see text] and large [Formula: see text]. [Formula: see text] and even more so [Formula: see text] decreased rapidly over cycles for both methods due to the high selection intensity and the role of the Bulmer effect for reducing [Formula: see text]. Since the TS for FS-RRGS can additionally be used for hybrid prediction, we recommend this method for achieving simultaneously the two major goals in hybrid breeding: population improvement and cultivar development.
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- Albrecht E. Melchinger
- Plant Breeding, TUM School of Life Sciences, Technical University of Munich, 85354 Freising, Germany
- Institute of Plant Breeding, Seed Science and Population Genetics, University of Hohenheim, 70599 Stuttgart, Germany
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- Institute of Agronomy and Plant Breeding II, Justus Liebig University, 35392 Gießen, Germany
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González-Recio O, López-Catalina A, Peiró-Pastor R, Nieto-Valle A, Castro M, Fernández A. Evaluating the potential of (epi)genotype-by-low pass nanopore sequencing in dairy cattle: a study on direct genomic value and methylation analysis. J Anim Sci Biotechnol 2023; 14:98. [PMID: 37434255 PMCID: PMC10337168 DOI: 10.1186/s40104-023-00896-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2023] [Accepted: 05/17/2023] [Indexed: 07/13/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Genotype-by-sequencing has been proposed as an alternative to SNP genotyping arrays in genomic selection to obtain a high density of markers along the genome. It requires a low sequencing depth to be cost effective, which may increase the error at the genotype assigment. Third generation nanopore sequencing technology offers low cost sequencing and the possibility to detect genome methylation, which provides added value to genotype-by-sequencing. The aim of this study was to evaluate the performance of genotype-by-low pass nanopore sequencing for estimating the direct genomic value in dairy cattle, and the possibility to obtain methylation marks simultaneously. RESULTS Latest nanopore chemistry (LSK14 and Q20) achieved a modal base calling accuracy of 99.55%, whereas previous kit (LSK109) achieved slightly lower accuracy (99.1%). The direct genomic value accuracy from genotype-by-low pass sequencing ranged between 0.79 and 0.99, depending on the trait (milk, fat or protein yield), with a sequencing depth as low as 2 × and using the latest chemistry (LSK114). Lower sequencing depth led to biased estimates, yet with high rank correlations. The LSK109 and Q20 achieved lower accuracies (0.57-0.93). More than one million high reliable methylated sites were obtained, even at low sequencing depth, located mainly in distal intergenic (87%) and promoter (5%) regions. CONCLUSIONS This study showed that the latest nanopore technology in useful in a LowPass sequencing framework to estimate direct genomic values with high reliability. It may provide advantages in populations with no available SNP chip, or when a large density of markers with a wide range of allele frequencies is needed. In addition, low pass sequencing provided nucleotide methylation status of > 1 million nucleotides at ≥ 10 × , which is an added value for epigenetic studies.
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- Oscar González-Recio
- Dpt. Mejora Genética Animal, INIA-CSIC, Ctra La Coruña Km 7.5, 28040, Madrid, Spain.
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- Dpt. Mejora Genética Animal, INIA-CSIC, Ctra La Coruña Km 7.5, 28040, Madrid, Spain
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- ETSIAAB, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. Ciudad Universitaria S/N, 28040, Madrid, Spain
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- Dpt. Mejora Genética Animal, INIA-CSIC, Ctra La Coruña Km 7.5, 28040, Madrid, Spain
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- Dpt. Mejora Genética Animal, INIA-CSIC, Ctra La Coruña Km 7.5, 28040, Madrid, Spain
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Morgante F, Carbonetto P, Wang G, Zou Y, Sarkar A, Stephens M. A flexible empirical Bayes approach to multivariate multiple regression, and its improved accuracy in predicting multi-tissue gene expression from genotypes. PLoS Genet 2023; 19:e1010539. [PMID: 37418505 PMCID: PMC10355440 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1010539] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2022] [Accepted: 06/02/2023] [Indexed: 07/09/2023] Open
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Predicting phenotypes from genotypes is a fundamental task in quantitative genetics. With technological advances, it is now possible to measure multiple phenotypes in large samples. Multiple phenotypes can share their genetic component; therefore, modeling these phenotypes jointly may improve prediction accuracy by leveraging effects that are shared across phenotypes. However, effects can be shared across phenotypes in a variety of ways, so computationally efficient statistical methods are needed that can accurately and flexibly capture patterns of effect sharing. Here, we describe new Bayesian multivariate, multiple regression methods that, by using flexible priors, are able to model and adapt to different patterns of effect sharing and specificity across phenotypes. Simulation results show that these new methods are fast and improve prediction accuracy compared with existing methods in a wide range of settings where effects are shared. Further, in settings where effects are not shared, our methods still perform competitively with state-of-the-art methods. In real data analyses of expression data in the Genotype Tissue Expression (GTEx) project, our methods improve prediction performance on average for all tissues, with the greatest gains in tissues where effects are strongly shared, and in the tissues with smaller sample sizes. While we use gene expression prediction to illustrate our methods, the methods are generally applicable to any multi-phenotype applications, including prediction of polygenic scores and breeding values. Thus, our methods have the potential to provide improvements across fields and organisms.
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- Fabio Morgante
- Center for Human Genetics, Clemson University, Greenwood, South Carolina, United States of America
- Department of Genetics and Biochemistry, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, United States of America
- Section of Genetic Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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- Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
- Research Computing Center, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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- Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
- Department of Neurology, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America
- Gertrude H. Sergievsky Center, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America
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- Department of Statistics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
- Regeneron Genetics Center, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc., Tarrytown, New York, United States of America
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- Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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- Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
- Department of Statistics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Gesteiro N, Ordás B, Butrón A, de la Fuente M, Jiménez-Galindo JC, Samayoa LF, Cao A, Malvar RA. Genomic versus phenotypic selection to improve corn borer resistance and grain yield in maize. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2023; 14:1162440. [PMID: 37484478 PMCID: PMC10360656 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2023.1162440] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2023] [Accepted: 06/22/2023] [Indexed: 07/25/2023]
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Introduction The study of yield and resistance/tolerance to pest are related traits fundamental for maize breeding programs. Genomic selection (GS), which uses all marker information to calculate genomic breeding values, is presented as an emerging alternative to phenotypic and marker-assisted selections for improving complex traits controlled by many genes with small effects. Therefore, although phenotypic selection (PS) has been effective for increasing resistance and yield under high infestation with maize stem borers, higher genetic gains are expected to be obtained through GS based on the complex architecture of both traits. Our objective was to test whether GS is more effective than PS for improving resistance and/or tolerance to maize stem borers and grain yield. Methods For this, we compared different selection programs based on phenotype and genotypic value for a single trait, resistance or yield, and for both traits together. Results and discussion We obtained that GS achieved the highest genetic gain for yield, meanwhile phenotypic selection for yield was the program that achieved the highest reduction of tunnel length, but was ineffective for increasing yield. However, phenotypic or genomic selection for increased resistance may be more effective in improving both traits together; although the gains per cycle would be small for both traits.
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- Mision Biologica de Galicia (CSIC), Pontevedra, Spain
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- Department of Crop Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States
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- Mision Biologica de Galicia (CSIC), Pontevedra, Spain
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Xiao J, Tsim KWK, Hajisamae S, Wang WX. Chromosome-level genome and population genomics provide novel insights into adaptive divergence in allopatric Eleutheronema tetradactylum. Int J Biol Macromol 2023:125299. [PMID: 37315663 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2023.125299] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2023] [Revised: 05/24/2023] [Accepted: 06/03/2023] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Understanding the adaptive ecological divergence provides important information for revealing biodiversity generation and maintenance. Adaptive ecology divergence in populations occurs in various environments and locations, but its genetic underpinnings remain elusive. We generated a chromosome-level genome of Eleutheronema tetradactylum (~582 Mb) and re-sequenced 50 allopatric E. tetradactylum in two independent environmental axes in China and Thailand Coastal waters as well as 11 cultured relatives. A low level of whole genome-wide diversity explained their decreased adaptive potential in the wild environment. Demographic analysis showed evidence of historically high abundance followed by a continuous distinct decline, plus signs of recent inbreeding and accumulation of deleterious mutations. Extensive signals of selective sweeps with signs of local adaptation to environmental differentiation between China and Thailand at genes related to thermal and salinity adaptation were discovered, which might be the driving factors of the geographical divergence of E. tetradactylum. Many genes and pathways subjected to strong selection under artificial breeding were associated with fatty acids and immunity (ELOVL6L, MAPK, p53/NF-kB), likely contributing to the eventual adaptation of artificial selective breeding. Our comprehensive study provided crucial genetic information for E. tetradactylum, with implications for the further conservation efforts of this threatened and ecologically valuable fish.
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- Jie Xiao
- School of Energy and Environment and State Key Laboratory of Marine Pollution, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong
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- Division of Life Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong
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- Faculty of Science and Technology, Prince of Songkla University, Pattani 94000, Thailand
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- School of Energy and Environment and State Key Laboratory of Marine Pollution, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
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Samal I, Bhoi TK, Raj MN, Majhi PK, Murmu S, Pradhan AK, Kumar D, Paschapur AU, Joshi DC, Guru PN. Underutilized legumes: nutrient status and advanced breeding approaches for qualitative and quantitative enhancement. Front Nutr 2023; 10:1110750. [PMID: 37275642 PMCID: PMC10232757 DOI: 10.3389/fnut.2023.1110750] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2022] [Accepted: 05/02/2023] [Indexed: 06/07/2023] Open
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Underutilized/orphan legumes provide food and nutritional security to resource-poor rural populations during periods of drought and extreme hunger, thus, saving millions of lives. The Leguminaceae, which is the third largest flowering plant family, has approximately 650 genera and 20,000 species and are distributed globally. There are various protein-rich accessible and edible legumes, such as soybean, cowpea, and others; nevertheless, their consumption rate is far higher than production, owing to ever-increasing demand. The growing global urge to switch from an animal-based protein diet to a vegetarian-based protein diet has also accelerated their demand. In this context, underutilized legumes offer significant potential for food security, nutritional requirements, and agricultural development. Many of the known legumes like Mucuna spp., Canavalia spp., Sesbania spp., Phaseolus spp., and others are reported to contain comparable amounts of protein, essential amino acids, polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs), dietary fiber, essential minerals and vitamins along with other bioactive compounds. Keeping this in mind, the current review focuses on the potential of discovering underutilized legumes as a source of food, feed and pharmaceutically valuable chemicals, in order to provide baseline data for addressing malnutrition-related problems and sustaining pulse needs across the globe. There is a scarcity of information about underutilized legumes and is restricted to specific geographical zones with local or traditional significance. Around 700 genera and 20,000 species remain for domestication, improvement, and mainstreaming. Significant efforts in research, breeding, and development are required to transform existing local landraces of carefully selected, promising crops into types with broad adaptability and economic viability. Different breeding efforts and the use of biotechnological methods such as micro-propagation, molecular markers research and genetic transformation for the development of underutilized crops are offered to popularize lesser-known legume crops and help farmers diversify their agricultural systems and boost their profitability.
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- Ipsita Samal
- Department of Entomology, Faculty of Agriculture, Sri Sri University, Cuttack, Odisha, India
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- Forest Protection Division, ICFRE-Arid Forest Research Institute, Jodhpur, India
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- Division of Entomology, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India
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- Regional Research and Technology Transfer Station, Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology, Keonjhar, Odisha, India
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- ICAR-Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute, New Delhi, India
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- ICAR-National Institute of Agricultural Economics and Policy Research, New Delhi, India
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- ICAR-Central Institute of Post-Harvest Engineering and Technology, Ludhiana, India
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Caproni L, Lakew BF, Kassaw SA, Miculan M, Ahmed JS, Grazioli S, Kidane YG, Fadda C, Pè ME, Dell'Acqua M. The genomic and bioclimatic characterization of Ethiopian barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) unveils challenges and opportunities to adapt to a changing climate. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY 2023; 29:2335-2350. [PMID: 36617489 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.16560] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2022] [Accepted: 12/03/2022] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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The climate crisis is impacting agroecosystems and threatening food security of millions of smallholder farmers. Understanding the potential for current and future climatic adaptation of local crop agrobiodiversity may guide breeding efforts and support resilience of agriculture. Here, we combine a genomic and climatic characterization of a large collection of traditional barley varieties from Ethiopia, a staple for local smallholder farmers cropping in challenging environments. We find that the genomic diversity of barley landraces can be partially traced back to geographic and environmental diversity of the landscape. We employ a machine learning approach to model Ethiopian barley adaptation to current climate and to identify areas where its existing diversity may not be well adapted in future climate scenarios. We use this information to identify optimal trajectories of assisted migration compensating to detrimental effects of climate change, finding that Ethiopian barley diversity bears opportunities for adaptation to the climate crisis. We then characterize phenology traits in the collection in two common garden experiments in Ethiopia, using genome-wide association approaches to identify genomic loci associated with timing of flowering and maturity of the spike. We combine this information with genotype-environment associations finding that loci involved in flowering time may also explain environmental adaptation. Our data show that integrated genomic, climatic, and phenotypic characterizations of agrobiodiversity may provide breeding with actionable information to improve local adaptation in smallholder farming systems.
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- Leonardo Caproni
- Center of Plant Sciences, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy
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- Center of Plant Sciences, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy
- Ethiopian Biodiversity Institute, Addis Abeba, Ethiopia
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- Center of Plant Sciences, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy
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- Center of Plant Sciences, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy
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- Center of Plant Sciences, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy
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- Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, Nairobi, Kenya
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- Center of Plant Sciences, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy
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Chen ZQ, Klingberg A, Hallingbäck HR, Wu HX. Preselection of QTL markers enhances accuracy of genomic selection in Norway spruce. BMC Genomics 2023; 24:147. [PMID: 36973641 PMCID: PMC10041705 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-023-09250-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2022] [Accepted: 03/15/2023] [Indexed: 03/29/2023] Open
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Genomic prediction (GP) or genomic selection is a method to predict the accumulative effect of all quantitative trait loci (QTLs) in a population by estimating the realized genomic relationships between the individuals and by capturing the linkage disequilibrium between markers and QTLs. Thus, marker preselection is considered a promising method to capture Mendelian segregation effects. Using QTLs detected in a genome-wide association study (GWAS) may improve GP. Here, we performed GWAS and GP in a population with 904 clones from 32 full-sib families using a newly developed 50 k SNP Norway spruce array. Through GWAS we identified 41 SNPs associated with budburst stage (BB) and the largest effect association explained 5.1% of the phenotypic variation (PVE). For the other five traits such as growth and wood quality traits, only 2 - 13 associations were observed and the PVE of the strongest effects ranged from 1.2% to 2.0%. GP using approximately 100 preselected SNPs, based on the smallest p-values from GWAS showed the greatest predictive ability (PA) for the trait BB. For the other traits, a preselection of 2000-4000 SNPs, was found to offer the best model fit according to the Akaike information criterion being minimized. But PA-magnitudes from GP using such selections were still similar to that of GP using all markers. Analyses on both real-life and simulated data also showed that the inclusion of a large QTL SNP in the model as a fixed effect could improve PA and accuracy of GP provided that the PVE of the QTL was ≥ 2.5%.
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- Zhi-Qiang Chen
- Umeå Plant Science Centre, Department Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 90183, Umeå, Sweden.
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- Umeå Plant Science Centre, Department Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 90183, Umeå, Sweden.
- Black Mountain Laboratory, CSIRO National Collection Research Australia, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia.
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Castro-Urrea FA, Urricariet MP, Stefanova KT, Li L, Moss WM, Guzzomi AL, Sass O, Siddique KHM, Cowling WA. Accuracy of Selection in Early Generations of Field Pea Breeding Increases by Exploiting the Information Contained in Correlated Traits. PLANTS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2023; 12:1141. [PMID: 36903999 PMCID: PMC10005560 DOI: 10.3390/plants12051141] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2023] [Revised: 02/21/2023] [Accepted: 02/27/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Accuracy of predicted breeding values (PBV) for low heritability traits may be increased in early generations by exploiting the information available in correlated traits. We compared the accuracy of PBV for 10 correlated traits with low to medium narrow-sense heritability (h2) in a genetically diverse field pea (Pisum sativum L.) population after univariate or multivariate linear mixed model (MLMM) analysis with pedigree information. In the contra-season, we crossed and selfed S1 parent plants, and in the main season we evaluated spaced plants of S0 cross progeny and S2+ (S2 or higher) self progeny of parent plants for the 10 traits. Stem strength traits included stem buckling (SB) (h2 = 0.05), compressed stem thickness (CST) (h2 = 0.12), internode length (IL) (h2 = 0.61) and angle of the main stem above horizontal at first flower (EAngle) (h2 = 0.46). Significant genetic correlations of the additive effects occurred between SB and CST (0.61), IL and EAngle (-0.90) and IL and CST (-0.36). The average accuracy of PBVs in S0 progeny increased from 0.799 to 0.841 and in S2+ progeny increased from 0.835 to 0.875 in univariate vs MLMM, respectively. An optimized mating design was constructed with optimal contribution selection based on an index of PBV for the 10 traits, and predicted genetic gain in the next cycle ranged from 1.4% (SB), 5.0% (CST), 10.5% (EAngle) and -10.5% (IL), with low achieved parental coancestry of 0.12. MLMM improved the potential genetic gain in annual cycles of early generation selection in field pea by increasing the accuracy of PBV.
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- Felipe A. Castro-Urrea
- The UWA Institute of Agriculture, The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA 6009, Australia
- School of Agriculture and Environment, The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA 6009, Australia
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- School of Agriculture and Environment, The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA 6009, Australia
- General Genetics Unit, Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina, Buenos Aires C1107AAZ, Argentina
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- The UWA Institute of Agriculture, The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA 6009, Australia
- SAGI West, School of Molecular and Life Sciences, Curtin University, Perth, WA 6845, Australia
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- Animal Genetics and Breeding Unit, University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia
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- Centre for Engineering Innovation: Agriculture & Ecological Restoration, The University of Western Australia, Shenton Park, WA 6008, Australia
- School of Engineering, The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA 6009, Australia
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- The UWA Institute of Agriculture, The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA 6009, Australia
- Centre for Engineering Innovation: Agriculture & Ecological Restoration, The University of Western Australia, Shenton Park, WA 6008, Australia
- School of Engineering, The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA 6009, Australia
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- Norddeutsche Pflanzenzucht Hans-Georg Lembke KG, Hohenlieth-Hof 1, 24363 Holtsee, Germany
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- The UWA Institute of Agriculture, The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA 6009, Australia
- School of Agriculture and Environment, The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA 6009, Australia
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- The UWA Institute of Agriculture, The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA 6009, Australia
- School of Agriculture and Environment, The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA 6009, Australia
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von Wettberg EJB, Guerra-Garcia A. Huge broad-bean genome could improve yields of an underused crop. Nature 2023; 615:587-588. [PMID: 36890309 DOI: 10.1038/d41586-023-00461-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/10/2023]
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Wang W, Guo W, Le L, Yu J, Wu Y, Li D, Wang Y, Wang H, Lu X, Qiao H, Gu X, Tian J, Zhang C, Pu L. Integration of high-throughput phenotyping, GWAS, and predictive models reveals the genetic architecture of plant height in maize. MOLECULAR PLANT 2023; 16:354-373. [PMID: 36447436 DOI: 10.1016/j.molp.2022.11.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2022] [Revised: 09/05/2022] [Accepted: 11/27/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Plant height (PH) is an essential trait in maize (Zea mays) that is tightly associated with planting density, biomass, lodging resistance, and grain yield in the field. Dissecting the dynamics of maize plant architecture will be beneficial for ideotype-based maize breeding and prediction, as the genetic basis controlling PH in maize remains largely unknown. In this study, we developed an automated high-throughput phenotyping platform (HTP) to systematically and noninvasively quantify 77 image-based traits (i-traits) and 20 field traits (f-traits) for 228 maize inbred lines across all developmental stages. Time-resolved i-traits with novel digital phenotypes and complex correlations with agronomic traits were characterized to reveal the dynamics of maize growth. An i-trait-based genome-wide association study identified 4945 trait-associated SNPs, 2603 genetic loci, and 1974 corresponding candidate genes. We found that rapid growth of maize plants occurs mainly at two developmental stages, stage 2 (S2) to S3 and S5 to S6, accounting for the final PH indicators. By integrating the PH-association network with the transcriptome profiles of specific internodes, we revealed 13 hub genes that may play vital roles during rapid growth. The candidate genes and novel i-traits identified at multiple growth stages may be used as potential indicators for final PH in maize. One candidate gene, ZmVATE, was functionally validated and shown to regulate PH-related traits in maize using genetic mutation. Furthermore, machine learning was used to build predictive models for final PH based on i-traits, and their performance was assessed across developmental stages. Moderate, strong, and very strong correlations between predictions and experimental datasets were achieved from the early S4 (tenth-leaf) stage. Colletively, our study provides a valuable tool for dissecting the spatiotemporal formation of specific internodes and the genetic architecture of PH, as well as resources and predictive models that are useful for molecular design breeding and predicting maize varieties with ideal plant architectures.
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- Weixuan Wang
- Biotechnology Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China; National Nanfan Research Institute (Sanya), Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Sanya 572024, China
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- Biotechnology Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China
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- Biotechnology Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China
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- Biotechnology Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China
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- Biotechnology Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China
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- Biotechnology Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China
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- Biotechnology Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China
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- Biotechnology Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China
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- Institute of Molecular Breeding for Maize, Qilu Normal University, Jinan 250200, China
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- Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA; Department of Molecular Biosciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA
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- Biotechnology Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China
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- Biotechnology Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China
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- Biotechnology Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China; Sanya Institute, Hainan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Sanya 572000, China.
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- Biotechnology Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China; National Nanfan Research Institute (Sanya), Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Sanya 572024, China.
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Raimondi D, Orlando G, Verplaetse N, Fariselli P, Moreau Y. Editorial: Towards genome interpretation: Computational methods to model the genotype-phenotype relationship. FRONTIERS IN BIOINFORMATICS 2022; 2:1098941. [PMID: 36530385 PMCID: PMC9749061 DOI: 10.3389/fbinf.2022.1098941] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2022] [Accepted: 11/17/2022] [Indexed: 11/12/2023] Open
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- Department of Medical Sciences, University of Torino, Torino, Italy
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Williamson HF, Leonelli S. Accelerating agriculture: Data-intensive plant breeding and the use of genetic gain as an indicator for agricultural research and development. STUDIES IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE 2022; 95:167-176. [PMID: 36058040 DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2022.08.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2021] [Revised: 05/03/2022] [Accepted: 08/05/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Accelerating the rate of genetic gain has in recent years become a key objective in plant breeding for the Global South, building on the availability of new data technologies and bridging biological interest in crop improvement with economic interest in enhancing the cost efficiency of breeding programs. This paper explains the concept of genetic gain, the conditions for its emerging status as an indicator of agricultural development and the broader implications of this move, with particular emphasis on the changing knowledge-control regimes of plant breeding, the social and political consequences for smallholder farmers and climate-adaptive agriculture. We analyse how prioritising the variables used to derive the indicator when deciding on agricultural policies affects the relationship between development goals and practice. We conclude that genetic gain should not be considered as a primary indicator of agricultural development in the absence of information on other key areas (including agrobiodiversity, seed systems and the differential impact of climate change on soil, crops and communities), as well as tools to evaluate the pros and cons of the acceleration in seed selection, management and evaluation fostered by the adoption of genetic gain as a key indicator.
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- Hugh F Williamson
- Exeter Centre for the Study of the Life Sciences, Department of Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology, University of Exeter, Byrne House, St. German's Road, Exeter EX4 4PJ, UK.
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- Exeter Centre for the Study of the Life Sciences, Department of Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology, University of Exeter, Byrne House, St. German's Road, Exeter EX4 4PJ, UK
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Murad Leite Andrade MH, Acharya JP, Benevenuto J, de Bem Oliveira I, Lopez Y, Munoz P, Resende MFR, Rios EF. Genomic prediction for canopy height and dry matter yield in alfalfa using family bulks. THE PLANT GENOME 2022; 15:e20235. [PMID: 35818699 DOI: 10.1002/tpg2.20235] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2022] [Accepted: 04/30/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Genomic selection (GS) has proven to be an effective method to increase genetic gain rates and accelerate breeding cycles in many crop species. However, its implementation requires large investments to phenotype of the training population and for routine genotyping. Alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) is one of the major cultivated forage legumes, showing high-quality nutritional value. Alfalfa breeding is usually carried out by phenotypic recurrent selection and is commonly done at the family level. The application of GS in alfalfa could be simplified and less costly by genotyping and phenotyping families in bulks. For this study, an alfalfa reference population composed of 142 full-sib and 35 half-sib families was bulk-genotyped using target enrichment sequencing and phenotyped for dry matter yield (DMY) and canopy height (CH) in Florida, USA. Genotyping of the family bulks with 17,707 targeted probes resulted in 114,945 single-nucleotide polymorphisms. The markers revealed a population structure that matched the mating design, and the linkage disequilibrium slowly decayed in this breeding population. After exploring multiple prediction scenarios, a strategy was proposed including data from multiple harvests and accounting for the G×E in the training population, which led to a higher predictive ability of up to 38 and 24% for DMY and CH, respectively. Although this study focused on the implementation of GS in alfalfa families, the bulk methodology and the prediction schemes used herein could guide future studies in alfalfa and other crops bred in bulks.
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- Agronomy Dep., Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32611, USA
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- Horticultural Sciences Dep., Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32611, USA
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- Agronomy Dep., Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32611, USA
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- Horticultural Sciences Dep., Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32611, USA
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- Horticultural Sciences Dep., Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32611, USA
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- Agronomy Dep., Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32611, USA
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Cerioli T, Hernandez CO, Angira B, McCouch SR, Robbins KR, Famoso AN. Development and validation of an optimized marker set for genomic selection in southern U.S. rice breeding programs. THE PLANT GENOME 2022; 15:e20219. [PMID: 35611838 DOI: 10.1002/tpg2.20219] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2021] [Accepted: 03/28/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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The potential of genomic selection (GS) to increase the efficiency of breeding programs has been clearly demonstrated; however, the implementation of GS in rice (Oryza sativa L.) breeding programs has been limited. In recent years, efforts have begun to work toward implementing GS into the Louisiana State University (LSU) Agricultural Center rice breeding program. One of the first steps for successful GS implementation is to establish a suitable marker set for the target germplasm and a reliable, cost-effective genotyping platform capable of providing informative marker data with an adequate turnaround time. The objective of this study was to develop a marker set for routine GS and demonstrate its effectiveness in southern U.S. rice germplasm. The utility of the resulting marker set, the LSU500, for GS applications was demonstrated using four years of breeding data across 7,607 experimental lines and four elite biparental populations. The predictive ability of GS ranged from 0.13 to 0.78 for key traits across different market classes and yield trials. Comparisons between phenotypic selection and GS within biparental populations demonstrates similar performance of GS compared with phenotypic selection in predicting future performance. The prediction accuracies obtained with the LSU500 marker set demonstrates the utility of this marker set for cost-effective GS applications in southern U.S. rice breeding programs. The LSU500 marker set has been established through the genotyping service provider Agriplex Genomics, and in the future, it will undergo improvements to reduce the cost and increase the accuracy of GS.
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- Tommaso Cerioli
- H. Rouse Caffey Rice Research Station, Louisiana State Univ. Agricultural Center, Rayne, LA, 70578, USA
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- H. Rouse Caffey Rice Research Station, Louisiana State Univ. Agricultural Center, Rayne, LA, 70578, USA
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- H. Rouse Caffey Rice Research Station, Louisiana State Univ. Agricultural Center, Rayne, LA, 70578, USA
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- Section of Plant Breeding and Genetics, School of Integrative Plant Sciences, Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY, 14850, USA
- Cornell Institute for Digital Agriculture, Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY, 14850, USA
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- Section of Plant Breeding and Genetics, School of Integrative Plant Sciences, Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY, 14850, USA
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- H. Rouse Caffey Rice Research Station, Louisiana State Univ. Agricultural Center, Rayne, LA, 70578, USA
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Yang CJ, Ladejobi O, Mott R, Powell W, Mackay I. Analysis of historical selection in winter wheat. TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2022; 135:3005-3023. [PMID: 35864201 PMCID: PMC9482581 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-022-04163-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2022] [Accepted: 06/22/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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KEY MESSAGE Modeling of the distribution of allele frequency over year of variety release identifies major loci involved in historical breeding of winter wheat. Winter wheat is a major crop with a rich selection history in the modern era of crop breeding. Genetic gains across economically important traits like yield have been well characterized and are the major force driving its production. Winter wheat is also an excellent model for analyzing historical genetic selection. As a proof of concept, we analyze two major collections of winter wheat varieties that were bred in Western Europe from 1916 to 2010, namely the Triticeae Genome (TG) and WAGTAIL panels, which include 333 and 403 varieties, respectively. We develop and apply a selection mapping approach, Regression of Alleles on Years (RALLY), in these panels, as well as in simulated populations. RALLY maps loci under sustained historical selection by using a simple logistic model to regress allele counts on years of variety release. To control for drift-induced allele frequency change, we develop a hybrid approach of genomic control and delta control. Within the TG panel, we identify 22 significant RALLY quantitative selection loci (QSLs) and estimate the local heritabilities for 12 traits across these QSLs. By correlating predicted marker effects with RALLY regression estimates, we show that alleles whose frequencies have increased over time are heavily biased toward conferring positive yield effect, but negative effects in flowering time, lodging, plant height and grain protein content. Altogether, our results (1) demonstrate the use of RALLY to identify selected genomic regions while controlling for drift, and (2) reveal key patterns in the historical selection in winter wheat and guide its future breeding.
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- Chin Jian Yang
- Scotland's Rural College (SRUC), Kings Buildings, West Mains Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3JG, UK
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- Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London, WC1E 6BT, UK
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- Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London, WC1E 6BT, UK
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- Scotland's Rural College (SRUC), Kings Buildings, West Mains Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3JG, UK
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- Scotland's Rural College (SRUC), Kings Buildings, West Mains Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3JG, UK.
- IMplant Consultancy Ltd, Chelmsford, UK.
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Hao X, Liang A, Plastow G, Zhang C, Wang Z, Liu J, Salzano A, Gasparrini B, Campanile G, Zhang S, Yang L. An Integrative Genomic Prediction Approach for Predicting Buffalo Milk Traits by Incorporating Related Cattle QTLs. Genes (Basel) 2022; 13:genes13081430. [PMID: 36011341 PMCID: PMC9408041 DOI: 10.3390/genes13081430] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2022] [Revised: 08/08/2022] [Accepted: 08/09/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Background: The 90K Axiom Buffalo SNP Array is expected to improve and speed up various genomic analyses for the buffalo (Bubalus bubalis). Genomic prediction is an effective approach in animal breeding to improve selection and reduce costs. As buffalo genome research is lagging behind that of the cow and production records are also limited, genomic prediction performance will be relatively poor. To improve the genomic prediction in buffalo, we introduced a new approach (pGBLUP) for genomic prediction of six buffalo milk traits by incorporating QTL information from the cattle milk traits in order to help improve the prediction performance for buffalo. Results: In simulations, the pGBLUP could outperform BayesR and the GBLUP if the prior biological information (i.e., the known causal loci) was appropriate; otherwise, it performed slightly worse than BayesR and equal to or better than the GBLUP. In real data, the heritability of the buffalo genomic region corresponding to the cattle milk trait QTLs was enriched (fold of enrichment > 1) in four buffalo milk traits (FY270, MY270, PY270, and PM) when the EBV was used as the response variable. The DEBV as the response variable yielded more reliable genomic predictions than the traditional EBV, as has been shown by previous research. The performance of the three approaches (GBLUP, BayesR, and pGBLUP) did not vary greatly in this study, probably due to the limited sample size, incomplete prior biological information, and less artificial selection in buffalo. Conclusions: To our knowledge, this study is the first to apply genomic prediction to buffalo by incorporating prior biological information. The genomic prediction of buffalo traits can be further improved with a larger sample size, higher-density SNP chips, and more precise prior biological information.
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- Xingjie Hao
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430030, China
- Correspondence: (X.H.); (L.Y.)
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- Key Laboratory of Agricultural Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction of Ministry of Education, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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- Livestock Gentec Center, Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2C8, Canada
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- Livestock Gentec Center, Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2C8, Canada
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- Livestock Gentec Center, Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2C8, Canada
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- Key Laboratory of Agricultural Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction of Ministry of Education, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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- Department of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Productions, University of Naples “Federico II”, 80137 Naples, Italy
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- Department of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Productions, University of Naples “Federico II”, 80137 Naples, Italy
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- Department of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Productions, University of Naples “Federico II”, 80137 Naples, Italy
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- Key Laboratory of Agricultural Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction of Ministry of Education, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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- Key Laboratory of Agricultural Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction of Ministry of Education, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
- Correspondence: (X.H.); (L.Y.)
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Meena MR, Appunu C, Arun Kumar R, Manimekalai R, Vasantha S, Krishnappa G, Kumar R, Pandey SK, Hemaprabha G. Recent Advances in Sugarcane Genomics, Physiology, and Phenomics for Superior Agronomic Traits. Front Genet 2022; 13:854936. [PMID: 35991570 PMCID: PMC9382102 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2022.854936] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2022] [Accepted: 05/26/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Advances in sugarcane breeding have contributed significantly to improvements in agronomic traits and crop yield. However, the growing global demand for sugar and biofuel in the context of climate change requires further improvements in cane and sugar yields. Attempts to achieve the desired rates of genetic gain in sugarcane by conventional breeding means are difficult as many agronomic traits are genetically complex and polygenic, with each gene exerting small effects. Unlike those of many other crops, the sugarcane genome is highly heterozygous due to its autopolyploid nature, which further hinders the development of a comprehensive genetic map. Despite these limitations, many superior agronomic traits/genes for higher cane yield, sugar production, and disease/pest resistance have been identified through the mapping of quantitative trait loci, genome-wide association studies, and transcriptome approaches. Improvements in traits controlled by one or two loci are relatively easy to achieve; however, this is not the case for traits governed by many genes. Many desirable phenotypic traits are controlled by quantitative trait nucleotides (QTNs) with small and variable effects. Assembling these desired QTNs by conventional breeding methods is time consuming and inefficient due to genetic drift. However, recent developments in genomics selection (GS) have allowed sugarcane researchers to select and accumulate desirable alleles imparting superior traits as GS is based on genomic estimated breeding values, which substantially increases the selection efficiency and genetic gain in sugarcane breeding programs. Next-generation sequencing techniques coupled with genome-editing technologies have provided new vistas in harnessing the sugarcane genome to look for desirable agronomic traits such as erect canopy, leaf angle, prolonged greening, high biomass, deep root system, and the non-flowering nature of the crop. Many desirable cane-yielding traits, such as single cane weight, numbers of tillers, numbers of millable canes, as well as cane quality traits, such as sucrose and sugar yield, have been explored using these recent biotechnological tools. This review will focus on the recent advances in sugarcane genomics related to genetic gain and the identification of favorable alleles for superior agronomic traits for further utilization in sugarcane breeding programs.
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- Mintu Ram Meena
- Regional Centre, ICAR-Sugarcane Breeding Institute, Karnal, India
- *Correspondence: Mintu Ram Meena, ; Chinnaswamy Appunu,
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- ICAR-Sugarcane Breeding Institute, Coimbatore, India
- *Correspondence: Mintu Ram Meena, ; Chinnaswamy Appunu,
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- ICAR-Sugarcane Breeding Institute, Coimbatore, India
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- ICAR-Sugarcane Breeding Institute, Coimbatore, India
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- Regional Centre, ICAR-Sugarcane Breeding Institute, Karnal, India
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- Regional Centre, ICAR-Sugarcane Breeding Institute, Karnal, India
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- ICAR-Sugarcane Breeding Institute, Coimbatore, India
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