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Tong J, Zhao C, Liu D, Jambuthenne DT, Sun M, Dinglasan E, Periyannan SK, Hickey LT, Hayes BJ. Genome-wide atlas of rust resistance loci in wheat. TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2024; 137:179. [PMID: 38980436 PMCID: PMC11233289 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-024-04689-8] [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] [Accepted: 06/29/2024] [Indexed: 07/10/2024]
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Rust diseases, including leaf rust, stripe/yellow rust, and stem rust, significantly impact wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) yields, causing substantial economic losses every year. Breeding and deployment of cultivars with genetic resistance is the most effective and sustainable approach to control these diseases. The genetic toolkit for wheat breeders to select for rust resistance has rapidly expanded with a multitude of genetic loci identified using the latest advances in genomics, mapping and cloning strategies. The goal of this review was to establish a wheat genome atlas that provides a comprehensive summary of reported loci associated with rust resistance. Our atlas provides a summary of mapped quantitative trait loci (QTL) and characterised genes for the three rusts from 170 publications over the past two decades. A total of 920 QTL or resistance genes were positioned across the 21 chromosomes of wheat based on the latest wheat reference genome (IWGSC RefSeq v2.1). Interestingly, 26 genomic regions contained multiple rust loci suggesting they could have pleiotropic effects on two or more rust diseases. We discuss a range of strategies to exploit this wealth of genetic information to efficiently utilise sources of resistance, including genomic information to stack desirable and multiple QTL to develop wheat cultivars with enhanced resistance to rust disease.
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- Jingyang Tong
- Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, 4072, Australia
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- National Wheat Improvement Centre, Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100081, China
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- Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, 4072, Australia
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- Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, 4072, Australia
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- National Wheat Improvement Centre, Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100081, China
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- Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, 4072, Australia.
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- Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, 4072, Australia.
- School of Agriculture and Environmental Science and Centre for Crop Health, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, QLD, 4350, Australia.
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- Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, 4072, Australia.
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- Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, 4072, Australia.
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Hamazaki K, Iwata H. AI-assisted selection of mating pairs through simulation-based optimized progeny allocation strategies in plant breeding. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2024; 15:1361894. [PMID: 38817943 PMCID: PMC11138345 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2024.1361894] [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: 12/27/2023] [Accepted: 03/06/2024] [Indexed: 06/01/2024]
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Emerging technologies such as genomic selection have been applied to modern plant and animal breeding to increase the speed and efficiency of variety release. However, breeding requires decisions regarding parent selection and mating pairs, which significantly impact the ultimate genetic gain of a breeding scheme. The selection of appropriate parents and mating pairs to increase genetic gain while maintaining genetic diversity is still an urgent need that breeders are facing. This study aimed to determine the best progeny allocation strategies by combining future-oriented simulations and numerical black-box optimization for an improved selection of parents and mating pairs. In this study, we focused on optimizing the allocation of progenies, and the breeding process was regarded as a black-box function whose input is a set of parameters related to the progeny allocation strategies and whose output is the ultimate genetic gain of breeding schemes. The allocation of progenies to each mating pair was parameterized according to a softmax function, whose input is a weighted sum of multiple features for the allocation, including expected genetic variance of progenies and selection criteria such as different types of breeding values, to balance genetic gains and genetic diversity optimally. The weighting parameters were then optimized by the black-box optimization algorithm called StoSOO via future-oriented breeding simulations. Simulation studies to evaluate the potential of our novel method revealed that the breeding strategy based on optimized weights attained almost 10% higher genetic gain than that with an equal allocation of progenies to all mating pairs within just four generations. Among the optimized strategies, those considering the expected genetic variance of progenies could maintain the genetic diversity throughout the breeding process, leading to a higher ultimate genetic gain than those without considering it. These results suggest that our novel method can significantly improve the speed and efficiency of variety development through optimized decisions regarding the selection of parents and mating pairs. In addition, by changing simulation settings, our future-oriented optimization framework for progeny allocation strategies can be easily implemented into general breeding schemes, contributing to accelerated plant and animal breeding with high efficiency.
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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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Sanchez D, Allier A, Ben Sadoun S, Mary-Huard T, Bauland C, Palaffre C, Lagardère B, Madur D, Combes V, Melkior S, Bettinger L, Murigneux A, Moreau L, Charcosset A. Assessing the potential of genetic resource introduction into elite germplasm: a collaborative multiparental population for flint maize. TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2024; 137:19. [PMID: 38214870 PMCID: PMC10786986 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-023-04509-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2023] [Accepted: 11/18/2023] [Indexed: 01/13/2024]
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KEY MESSAGE Implementing a collaborative pre-breeding multi-parental population efficiently identifies promising donor x elite pairs to enrich the flint maize elite germplasm. Genetic diversity is crucial for maintaining genetic gains and ensuring breeding programs' long-term success. In a closed breeding program, selection inevitably leads to a loss of genetic diversity. While managing diversity can delay this loss, introducing external sources of diversity is necessary to bring back favorable genetic variation. Genetic resources exhibit greater diversity than elite materials, but their lower performance levels hinder their use. This is the case for European flint maize, for which elite germplasm has incorporated only a limited portion of the diversity available in landraces. To enrich the diversity of this elite genetic pool, we established an original cooperative maize bridging population that involves crosses between private elite materials and diversity donors to create improved genotypes that will facilitate the incorporation of original favorable variations. Twenty donor × elite BC1S2 families were created and phenotyped for hybrid value for yield related traits. Crosses showed contrasted means and variances and therefore contrasted potential in terms of selection as measured by their usefulness criterion (UC). Average expected mean performance gain over the initial elite material was 5%. The most promising donor for each elite line was identified. Results also suggest that one more generation, i.e., 3 in total, of crossing to the elite is required to fully exploit the potential of a donor. Altogether, our results support the usefulness of incorporating genetic resources into elite flint maize. They call for further effort to create fixed diversity donors and identify those most suitable for each elite program.
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- Dimitri Sanchez
- Université Paris-Saclay, INRAE, CNRS, AgroParisTech, Génétique Quantitative et Evolution-Le Moulon, 91190, Gif-Sur-Yvette, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, INRAE, CNRS, AgroParisTech, Génétique Quantitative et Evolution-Le Moulon, 91190, Gif-Sur-Yvette, France
- Syngenta, 12 Chemin de L'Hobit, 31790, Saint-Sauveur, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, INRAE, CNRS, AgroParisTech, Génétique Quantitative et Evolution-Le Moulon, 91190, Gif-Sur-Yvette, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, INRAE, CNRS, AgroParisTech, Génétique Quantitative et Evolution-Le Moulon, 91190, Gif-Sur-Yvette, France
- Université Paris-Saclay, AgroParisTech, INRAE, UMR MIA-Paris Saclay, 91120, Palaiseau, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, INRAE, CNRS, AgroParisTech, Génétique Quantitative et Evolution-Le Moulon, 91190, Gif-Sur-Yvette, France
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- UE 0394 SMH, INRAE, 2297 Route de l'INRA, 40390, Saint-Martin-de-Hinx, France
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- UE 0394 SMH, INRAE, 2297 Route de l'INRA, 40390, Saint-Martin-de-Hinx, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, INRAE, CNRS, AgroParisTech, Génétique Quantitative et Evolution-Le Moulon, 91190, Gif-Sur-Yvette, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, INRAE, CNRS, AgroParisTech, Génétique Quantitative et Evolution-Le Moulon, 91190, Gif-Sur-Yvette, France
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- Limagrain Europe, 28 Route d'Ennezat, 63720, Chappes, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, INRAE, CNRS, AgroParisTech, Génétique Quantitative et Evolution-Le Moulon, 91190, Gif-Sur-Yvette, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, INRAE, CNRS, AgroParisTech, Génétique Quantitative et Evolution-Le Moulon, 91190, Gif-Sur-Yvette, France.
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Danguy des Déserts A, Durand N, Servin B, Goudemand-Dugué E, Alliot JM, Ruiz D, Charmet G, Elsen JM, Bouchet S. Comparison of genomic-enabled cross selection criteria for the improvement of inbred line breeding populations. G3 (BETHESDA, MD.) 2023; 13:jkad195. [PMID: 37625792 PMCID: PMC10627264 DOI: 10.1093/g3journal/jkad195] [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: 03/15/2023] [Revised: 03/15/2023] [Accepted: 08/22/2023] [Indexed: 08/27/2023]
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A crucial step in inbred plant breeding is the choice of mating design to derive high-performing inbred varieties while also maintaining a competitive breeding population to secure sufficient genetic gain in future generations. In practice, the mating design usually relies on crosses involving the best parental inbred lines to ensure high mean progeny performance. This excludes crosses involving lower performing but more complementary parents in terms of favorable alleles. We predicted the ability of crosses to produce putative outstanding progenies (high mean and high variance progeny distribution) using genomic prediction models. This study compared the benefits and drawbacks of 7 genomic cross selection criteria (CSC) in terms of genetic gain for 1 trait and genetic diversity in the next generation. Six CSC were already published, and we propose an improved CSC that can estimate the proportion of progeny above a threshold defined for the whole mating plan. We simulated mating designs optimized using different CSC. The 835 elite parents came from a real breeding program and were evaluated between 2000 and 2016. We applied constraints on parental contributions and genetic similarities between selected parents according to usual breeder practices. Our results showed that CSC based on progeny variance estimation increased the genetic value of superior progenies by up to 5% in the next generation compared to CSC based on the progeny mean estimation (i.e. parental genetic values) alone. It also increased the genetic gain (up to 4%) and/or maintained more genetic diversity at QTLs (up to 4% more genic variance when the marker effects were perfectly estimated).
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- Alice Danguy des Déserts
- INRAE-Université Clermont-Auvergne, UMR1095, GDEC, 63000 Clermont-Ferrand, Puy de Dôme, Auvergne, France
- INRAE-Université de Toulouse, UMR1388, GenPhySE, 31320 Castanet-Tolosan, Haute-Garonne, Occitanie, France
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- ENAC-Ecole Nationale de l'Aviation Civile, 31000 Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, Occitanie, France
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- INRAE-Université de Toulouse, UMR1388, GenPhySE, 31320 Castanet-Tolosan, Haute-Garonne, Occitanie, France
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- Florimond-Desprez Veuve & Fils SAS, 59242 Cappelle-en-Pévèle, Nord, Hauts-de-France, France
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- IRIT-APO, Institut de recherche en informatique de Toulouse - Algorithmes Parallèles et Optimisation, 31000 Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, Occitanie, France
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- INPT-ENSEEIHT, Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse, École Nationale Supérieure d'Électrotechnique, d'Électronique, d'Informatique, d'Hydraulique et des Télécommunications, 31000 Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, Occitanie, France
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- INRAE-Université Clermont-Auvergne, UMR1095, GDEC, 63000 Clermont-Ferrand, Puy de Dôme, Auvergne, France
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- INRAE-Université de Toulouse, UMR1388, GenPhySE, 31320 Castanet-Tolosan, Haute-Garonne, Occitanie, France
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- INRAE-Université Clermont-Auvergne, UMR1095, GDEC, 63000 Clermont-Ferrand, Puy de Dôme, Auvergne, France
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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: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 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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Lubanga N, Massawe F, Mayes S, Gorjanc G, Bančič J. Genomic selection strategies to increase genetic gain in tea breeding programs. THE PLANT GENOME 2023; 16:e20282. [PMID: 36349831 DOI: 10.1002/tpg2.20282] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2022] [Accepted: 10/01/2022] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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Tea [Camellia sinensis (L.) O. Kuntze] is mainly grown in low- to middle-income countries (LMIC) and is a global commodity. Breeding programs in these countries face the challenge of increasing genetic gain because the accuracy of selecting superior genotypes is low and resources are limited. Phenotypic selection (PS) is traditionally the primary method of developing improved tea varieties and can take over 16 yr. Genomic selection (GS) can be used to improve the efficiency of tea breeding by increasing selection accuracy and shortening the generation interval and breeding cycle. Our main objective was to investigate the potential of implementing GS in tea-breeding programs to speed up genetic progress despite the low cost of PS in LMIC. We used stochastic simulations to compare three GS-breeding programs with a Pedigree and PS program. The PS program mimicked a practical commercial tea-breeding program over a 40-yr breeding period. All the GS programs achieved at least 1.65 times higher genetic gains than the PS program and 1.4 times compared with Seed-Ped program. Seed-GSc was the most cost-effective strategy of implementing GS in tea-breeding programs. It introduces GS at the seedlings stage to increase selection accuracy early in the program and reduced the generation interval to 2 yr. The Seed-Ped program outperformed PS by 1.2 times and could be implemented where it is not possible to use GS. Our results indicate that GS could be used to improve genetic gain per unit time and cost even in cost-constrained tea-breeding programs.
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- Nelson Lubanga
- The Roslin Institute and Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, The Univ. of Edinburgh, Easter Bush Campus, Midlothian, EH25 9RG, UK
- School of Biosciences, The Univ. of Nottingham Malaysia, Jalan Broga, Semenyih, Selangor Darul Ehsan, 43500, Malaysia
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- School of Biosciences, The Univ. of Nottingham Malaysia, Jalan Broga, Semenyih, Selangor Darul Ehsan, 43500, Malaysia
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- School of Biosciences, The Univ. of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington Campus, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE12 5RD, UK
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- The Roslin Institute and Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, The Univ. of Edinburgh, Easter Bush Campus, Midlothian, EH25 9RG, UK
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- The Roslin Institute and Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, The Univ. of Edinburgh, Easter Bush Campus, Midlothian, EH25 9RG, UK
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Diot J, Iwata H. Bayesian optimisation for breeding schemes. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2023; 13:1050198. [PMID: 36714776 PMCID: PMC9875003 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2022.1050198] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2022] [Accepted: 11/14/2022] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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INTRODUCTION Advances in genotyping technologies have provided breeders with access to the genotypic values of several thousand genetic markers in their breeding materials. Combined with phenotypic data, this information facilitates genomic selection. Although genomic selection can benefit breeders, it does not guarantee efficient genetic improvement. Indeed, multiple components of breeding schemes may affect the efficiency of genetic improvement and controlling all components may not be possible. In this study, we propose a new application of Bayesian optimisation for optimizing breeding schemes under specific constraints using computer simulation. METHODS Breeding schemes are simulated according to nine different parameters. Five of those parameters are considered constraints, and 4 can be optimised. Two optimisation methods are used to optimise those parameters, Bayesian optimisation and random optimisation. RESULTS The results show that Bayesian optimisation indeed finds breeding scheme parametrisations that provide good breeding improvement with regard to the entire parameter space and outperforms random optimisation. Moreover, the results also show that the optimised parameter distributions differ according to breeder constraints. DISCUSSION This study is one of the first to apply Bayesian optimisation to the design of breeding schemes while considering constraints. The presented approach has some limitations and should be considered as a first proof of concept that demonstrates the potential of Bayesian optimisation when applied to breeding schemes. Determining a general "rule of thumb" for breeding optimisation may be difficult and considering the specific constraints of each breeding campaign is important for finding an optimal breeding scheme.
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Li Y, Ruperao P, Batley J, Edwards D, Martin W, Hobson K, Sutton T. Genomic prediction of preliminary yield trials in chickpea: Effect of functional annotation of SNPs and environment. THE PLANT GENOME 2022; 15:e20166. [PMID: 34786880 DOI: 10.1002/tpg2.20166] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2021] [Accepted: 09/14/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Achieving yield potential in chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) is limited by many constraints that include biotic and abiotic stresses. Combining next-generation sequencing technology with advanced statistical modeling has the potential to increase genetic gain efficiently. Whole genome resequencing data was obtained from 315 advanced chickpea breeding lines from the Australian chickpea breeding program resulting in more than 298,000 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) discovered. Analysis of population structure revealed a distinct group of breeding lines with many alleles that are absent from recently released Australian cultivars. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) using these Australian breeding lines identified 20 SNPs significantly associated with grain yield in multiple field environments. A reduced level of nucleotide diversity and extended linkage disequilibrium suggested that some regions in these chickpea genomes may have been through selective breeding for yield or other traits. A large introgression segment that introduced from C. echinospermum for phytophthora root rot resistance was identified on chromosome 6, yet it also has unintended consequences of reducing yield due to linkage drag. We further investigated the effect of genotype by environment interaction on genomic prediction of yield. We found that the training set had better prediction accuracy when phenotyped under conditions relevant to the targeted environments. We also investigated the effect of SNP functional annotation on prediction accuracy using different subsets of SNPs based on their genomic locations: regulatory regions, exome, and alternative splice sites. Compared with the whole SNP dataset, a subset of SNPs did not significantly decrease prediction accuracy for grain yield despite consisting of a smaller number of SNPs.
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- Yongle Li
- School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, The Univ. of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, 5064, Australia
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- Statistics, Bioinformatics and Data Management, ICRISAT, Hyderabad, 502324, India
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- School of Biological Sciences, The Univ. of Western Australia, Perth, WA, 6001, Australia
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- School of Biological Sciences, The Univ. of Western Australia, Perth, WA, 6001, Australia
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- Dep. of Agriculture and Fisheries, Warwick, Qld, 4370, Australia
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- NSW Dep. of Primary Industries, Tamworth, NSW, 2340, Australia
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- School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, The Univ. of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, 5064, Australia
- South Australian Research and Development Institute, Adelaide, SA, 5064, Australia
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Baertschi C, Cao TV, Bartholomé J, Ospina Y, Quintero C, Frouin J, Bouvet JM, Grenier C. Impact of early genomic prediction for recurrent selection in an upland rice synthetic population. G3 (BETHESDA, MD.) 2021; 11:jkab320. [PMID: 34498036 PMCID: PMC8664429 DOI: 10.1093/g3journal/jkab320] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2021] [Accepted: 08/16/2021] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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Population breeding through recurrent selection is based on the repetition of evaluation and recombination among best-selected individuals. In this type of breeding strategy, early evaluation of selection candidates combined with genomic prediction could substantially shorten the breeding cycle length, thus increasing the rate of genetic gain. The objective of this study was to optimize early genomic prediction in an upland rice (Oryza sativa L.) synthetic population improved through recurrent selection via shuttle breeding in two sites. To this end, we used genomic prediction on 334 S0 genotypes evaluated with early generation progeny testing (S0:2 and S0:3) across two sites. Four traits were measured (plant height, days to flowering, grain yield, and grain zinc concentration) and the predictive ability was assessed for the target site. For days to flowering and plant height, which correlate well among sites (0.51-0.62), an increase of up to 0.4 in predictive ability was observed when the model was trained using the two sites. For grain zinc concentration, adding the phenotype of the predicted lines in the nontarget site to the model improved the predictive ability (0.51 with two-site and 0.31 with single-site model), whereas for grain yield the gain was less (0.42 with two-site and 0.35 with single-site calibration). Through these results, we found a good opportunity to optimize the genomic recurrent selection scheme and maximize the use of resources by performing early progeny testing in two sites for traits with best expression and/or relevance in each specific environment.
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- Cédric Baertschi
- CIRAD, UMR AGAP Institut, F-34398 Montpellier, France
- UMR AGAP Institut, Univ Montpellier, CIRAD, INRAE, Institut Agro, F-34398 Montpellier, France
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- CIRAD, UMR AGAP Institut, F-34398 Montpellier, France
- UMR AGAP Institut, Univ Montpellier, CIRAD, INRAE, Institut Agro, F-34398 Montpellier, France
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- CIRAD, UMR AGAP Institut, F-34398 Montpellier, France
- UMR AGAP Institut, Univ Montpellier, CIRAD, INRAE, Institut Agro, F-34398 Montpellier, France
- Rice Breeding Platform, International Rice Research Institute, Metro Manila, Philippines
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- Alliance Bioversity-CIAT, Recta Palmira Cali, Colombia
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- CIRAD, UMR AGAP Institut, F-34398 Montpellier, France
- UMR AGAP Institut, Univ Montpellier, CIRAD, INRAE, Institut Agro, F-34398 Montpellier, France
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- CIRAD, UMR AGAP Institut, F-34398 Montpellier, France
- UMR AGAP Institut, Univ Montpellier, CIRAD, INRAE, Institut Agro, F-34398 Montpellier, France
- CIRAD, Dispositif de Recherche et d’Enseignement en Partenariat “Forêts et Biodiversité à Madagascar”, Antananarivo, Madagascar
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- CIRAD, UMR AGAP Institut, F-34398 Montpellier, France
- UMR AGAP Institut, Univ Montpellier, CIRAD, INRAE, Institut Agro, F-34398 Montpellier, France
- Alliance Bioversity-CIAT, Recta Palmira Cali, Colombia
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Vanavermaete D, Fostier J, Maenhout S, De Baets B. Deep scoping: a breeding strategy to preserve, reintroduce and exploit genetic variation. TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2021; 134:3845-3861. [PMID: 34387711 PMCID: PMC8580937 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-021-03932-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2021] [Accepted: 07/30/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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The deep scoping method incorporates the use of a gene bank together with different population layers to reintroduce genetic variation into the breeding population, thus maximizing the long-term genetic gain without reducing the short-term genetic gain or increasing the total financial cost. Genomic prediction is often combined with truncation selection to identify superior parental individuals that can pass on favorable quantitative trait locus (QTL) alleles to their offspring. However, truncation selection reduces genetic variation within the breeding population, causing a premature convergence to a sub-optimal genetic value. In order to also increase genetic gain in the long term, different methods have been proposed that better preserve genetic variation. However, when the genetic variation of the breeding population has already been reduced as a result of prior intensive selection, even those methods will not be able to avert such premature convergence. Pre-breeding provides a solution for this problem by reintroducing genetic variation into the breeding population. Unfortunately, as pre-breeding often relies on a separate breeding population to increase the genetic value of wild specimens before introducing them in the elite population, it comes with an increased financial cost. In this paper, on the basis of a simulation study, we propose a new method that reintroduces genetic variation in the breeding population on a continuous basis without the need for a separate pre-breeding program or a larger population size. This way, we are able to introduce favorable QTL alleles into an elite population and maximize the genetic gain in the short as well as in the long term without increasing the financial cost.
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- David Vanavermaete
- KERMIT, Department of Data Analysis and Mathematical Modelling, Ghent University, B-9000, Ghent, Belgium.
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- IDLab, Department of Information Technology, Ghent University - imec, B-9052, Ghent, Belgium
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- KERMIT, Department of Data Analysis and Mathematical Modelling, Ghent University, B-9000, Ghent, Belgium
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Ahmar S, Ballesta P, Ali M, Mora-Poblete F. Achievements and Challenges of Genomics-Assisted Breeding in Forest Trees: From Marker-Assisted Selection to Genome Editing. Int J Mol Sci 2021; 22:10583. [PMID: 34638922 PMCID: PMC8508745 DOI: 10.3390/ijms221910583] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2021] [Revised: 09/26/2021] [Accepted: 09/27/2021] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Forest tree breeding efforts have focused mainly on improving traits of economic importance, selecting trees suited to new environments or generating trees that are more resilient to biotic and abiotic stressors. This review describes various methods of forest tree selection assisted by genomics and the main technological challenges and achievements in research at the genomic level. Due to the long rotation time of a forest plantation and the resulting long generation times necessary to complete a breeding cycle, the use of advanced techniques with traditional breeding have been necessary, allowing the use of more precise methods for determining the genetic architecture of traits of interest, such as genome-wide association studies (GWASs) and genomic selection (GS). In this sense, main factors that determine the accuracy of genomic prediction models are also addressed. In turn, the introduction of genome editing opens the door to new possibilities in forest trees and especially clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats and CRISPR-associated protein 9 (CRISPR/Cas9). It is a highly efficient and effective genome editing technique that has been used to effectively implement targetable changes at specific places in the genome of a forest tree. In this sense, forest trees still lack a transformation method and an inefficient number of genotypes for CRISPR/Cas9. This challenge could be addressed with the use of the newly developing technique GRF-GIF with speed breeding.
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- Sunny Ahmar
- Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Talca, 1 Poniente 1141, Talca 3460000, Chile;
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- The National Fund for Scientific and Technological Development, Av. del Agua 3895, Talca 3460000, Chile
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- Department of Forestry and Range Management, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Faisalabad 38000, Pakistan;
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- Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Talca, 1 Poniente 1141, Talca 3460000, Chile;
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Ramasubramanian V, Beavis WD. Strategies to Assure Optimal Trade-Offs Among Competing Objectives for the Genetic Improvement of Soybean. Front Genet 2021; 12:675500. [PMID: 34630507 PMCID: PMC8497982 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2021.675500] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2021] [Accepted: 08/17/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Plant breeding is a decision-making discipline based on understanding project objectives. Genetic improvement projects can have two competing objectives: maximize the rate of genetic improvement and minimize the loss of useful genetic variance. For commercial plant breeders, competition in the marketplace forces greater emphasis on maximizing immediate genetic improvements. In contrast, public plant breeders have an opportunity, perhaps an obligation, to place greater emphasis on minimizing the loss of useful genetic variance while realizing genetic improvements. Considerable research indicates that short-term genetic gains from genomic selection are much greater than phenotypic selection, while phenotypic selection provides better long-term genetic gains because it retains useful genetic diversity during the early cycles of selection. With limited resources, must a soybean breeder choose between the two extreme responses provided by genomic selection or phenotypic selection? Or is it possible to develop novel breeding strategies that will provide a desirable compromise between the competing objectives? To address these questions, we decomposed breeding strategies into decisions about selection methods, mating designs, and whether the breeding population should be organized as family islands. For breeding populations organized into islands, decisions about possible migration rules among family islands were included. From among 60 possible strategies, genetic improvement is maximized for the first five to 10 cycles using genomic selection and a hub network mating design, where the hub parents with the largest selection metric make large parental contributions. It also requires that the breeding populations be organized as fully connected family islands, where every island is connected to every other island, and migration rules allow the exchange of two lines among islands every other cycle of selection. If the objectives are to maximize both short-term and long-term gains, then the best compromise strategy is similar except that the mating design could be hub network, chain rule, or a multi-objective optimization method-based mating design. Weighted genomic selection applied to centralized populations also resulted in the realization of the greatest proportion of the genetic potential of the founders but required more cycles than the best compromise strategy.
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- Vishnu Ramasubramanian
- George F. Sprague Population Genetics Group, Department of Agronomy, Ames, IA, United States
- Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Graduate Program, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States
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- George F. Sprague Population Genetics Group, Department of Agronomy, Ames, IA, United States
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Labroo MR, Studer AJ, Rutkoski JE. Heterosis and Hybrid Crop Breeding: A Multidisciplinary Review. Front Genet 2021; 12:643761. [PMID: 33719351 PMCID: PMC7943638 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2021.643761] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2020] [Accepted: 02/08/2021] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Although hybrid crop varieties are among the most popular agricultural innovations, the rationale for hybrid crop breeding is sometimes misunderstood. Hybrid breeding is slower and more resource-intensive than inbred breeding, but it allows systematic improvement of a population by recurrent selection and exploitation of heterosis simultaneously. Inbred parental lines can identically reproduce both themselves and their F1 progeny indefinitely, whereas outbred lines cannot, so uniform outbred lines must be bred indirectly through their inbred parents to harness heterosis. Heterosis is an expected consequence of whole-genome non-additive effects at the population level over evolutionary time. Understanding heterosis from the perspective of molecular genetic mechanisms alone may be elusive, because heterosis is likely an emergent property of populations. Hybrid breeding is a process of recurrent population improvement to maximize hybrid performance. Hybrid breeding is not maximization of heterosis per se, nor testing random combinations of individuals to find an exceptional hybrid, nor using heterosis in place of population improvement. Though there are methods to harness heterosis other than hybrid breeding, such as use of open-pollinated varieties or clonal propagation, they are not currently suitable for all crops or production environments. The use of genomic selection can decrease cycle time and costs in hybrid breeding, particularly by rapidly establishing heterotic pools, reducing testcrossing, and limiting the loss of genetic variance. Open questions in optimal use of genomic selection in hybrid crop breeding programs remain, such as how to choose founders of heterotic pools, the importance of dominance effects in genomic prediction, the necessary frequency of updating the training set with phenotypic information, and how to maintain genetic variance and prevent fixation of deleterious alleles.
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- Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States
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Preservation of Genetic Variation in a Breeding Population for Long-Term Genetic Gain. G3-GENES GENOMES GENETICS 2020; 10:2753-2762. [PMID: 32513654 PMCID: PMC7407475 DOI: 10.1534/g3.120.401354] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Genomic selection has been successfully implemented in plant and animal breeding. The transition of parental selection based on phenotypic characteristics to genomic selection (GS) has reduced breeding time and cost while accelerating the rate of genetic progression. Although breeding methods have been adapted to include genomic selection, parental selection often involves truncation selection, selecting the individuals with the highest genomic estimated breeding values (GEBVs) in the hope that favorable properties will be passed to their offspring. This ensures genetic progression and delivers offspring with high genetic values. However, several favorable quantitative trait loci (QTL) alleles risk being eliminated from the breeding population during breeding. We show that this could reduce the mean genetic value that the breeding population could reach in the long term with up to 40%. In this paper, by means of a simulation study, we propose a new method for parental mating that is able to preserve the genetic variation in the breeding population, preventing premature convergence of the genetic values to a local optimum, thus maximizing the genetic values in the long term. We do not only prevent the fixation of several unfavorable QTL alleles, but also demonstrate that the genetic values can be increased by up to 15 percentage points compared with truncation selection.
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Bijma P, Wientjes YCJ, Calus MPL. Breeding Top Genotypes and Accelerating Response to Recurrent Selection by Selecting Parents with Greater Gametic Variance. Genetics 2020; 214:91-107. [PMID: 31772074 PMCID: PMC6944402 DOI: 10.1534/genetics.119.302643] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/19/2019] [Accepted: 11/21/2019] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Because of variation in linkage phase and heterozygosity among individuals, some individuals produce genetically more variable gametes than others. With the availability of genomic EBVs (GEBVs) or estimates of SNP-effects together with phased genotypes, differences in gametic variability can be quantified by simulating a set of virtual gametes of each selection candidate. Previous results in dairy cattle show that gametic variance can be large. Here, we show that breeders can increase the probability of breeding a top-ranking genotype and response to recurrent selection by selecting parents that produce more variable gametes, using the index [Formula: see text] where [Formula: see text] is the standardized normal truncation point belonging to selected proportion p, and SDgGEBV is the SD of the GEBV of an individual's gametes. Benefits of the index were considerably larger in an ongoing selection program with equilibrium genetic parameters than in an initially unselected population. Superiority of the index over selection on GEBV increased strongly with the magnitude of the [Formula: see text] indicating that benefits of the index may vary considerably among populations. Compared to selection on ordinary GEBV, the probability of breeding a top-ranking individual can be increased by ∼36%, and response to selection by ∼3.6% when selection is strong (P = 0.001) based on values for the Holstein-Friesian dairy cattle population. Two-stage selection, with a preselection on GEBV and a final selection on the index, considerably reduced computational requirements with little loss of benefits. Response to multiple generations of selection and inheritance of the SDgEBV require further study.
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- Piter Bijma
- Wageningen University and Research, Animal Breeding and Genomics, 6708PB Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Wageningen University and Research, Animal Breeding and Genomics, 6708PB Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Wageningen University and Research, Animal Breeding and Genomics, 6708PB Wageningen, The Netherlands
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Allier A, Lehermeier C, Charcosset A, Moreau L, Teyssèdre S. Improving Short- and Long-Term Genetic Gain by Accounting for Within-Family Variance in Optimal Cross-Selection. Front Genet 2019; 10:1006. [PMID: 31737033 PMCID: PMC6828944 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2019.01006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2019] [Accepted: 09/20/2019] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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The implementation of genomic selection in recurrent breeding programs raises the concern that a higher inbreeding rate could compromise the long-term genetic gain. An optimized mating strategy that maximizes the performance in progeny and maintains diversity for long-term genetic gain is therefore essential. The optimal cross-selection approach aims at identifying the optimal set of crosses that maximizes the expected genetic value in the progeny under a constraint on genetic diversity in the progeny. Optimal cross-selection usually does not account for within-family selection, i.e., the fact that only a selected fraction of each family is used as parents of the next generation. In this study, we consider within-family variance accounting for linkage disequilibrium between quantitative trait loci to predict the expected mean performance and the expected genetic diversity in the selected progeny of a set of crosses. These predictions rely on the usefulness criterion parental contribution (UCPC) method. We compared UCPC-based optimal cross-selection and the optimal cross-selection approach in a long-term simulated recurrent genomic selection breeding program considering overlapping generations. UCPC-based optimal cross-selection proved to be more efficient to convert the genetic diversity into short- and long-term genetic gains than optimal cross-selection. We also showed that, using the UCPC-based optimal cross-selection, the long-term genetic gain can be increased with only a limited reduction of the short-term commercial genetic gain.
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- Antoine Allier
- GQE-Le Moulon, INRA, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
- Genetics and Analytics Unit, RAGT2n, Druelle, France
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- GQE-Le Moulon, INRA, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- GQE-Le Moulon, INRA, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Michel S, Löschenberger F, Ametz C, Pachler B, Sparry E, Bürstmayr H. Simultaneous selection for grain yield and protein content in genomics-assisted wheat breeding. TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2019; 132:1745-1760. [PMID: 30810763 PMCID: PMC6531418 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-019-03312-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2018] [Accepted: 02/15/2019] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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KEY MESSAGE Large genetic improvement can be achieved by simultaneous genomic selection for grain yield and protein content when combining different breeding strategies in the form of selection indices. Genomic selection has been implemented in many national and international breeding programmes in recent years. Numerous studies have shown the potential of this new breeding tool; few have, however, taken the simultaneous selection for multiple traits into account that is though common practice in breeding programmes. The simultaneous improvement in grain yield and protein content is thereby a major challenge in wheat breeding due to a severe negative trade-off. Accordingly, the potential and limits of multi-trait selection for this particular trait complex utilizing the vast phenotypic and genomic data collected in an applied wheat breeding programme were investigated in this study. Two breeding strategies based on various genomic-selection indices were compared, which (1) aimed to select high-protein genotypes with acceptable yield potential and (2) develop high-yielding varieties, while maintaining protein content. The prediction accuracy of preliminary yield trials could be strongly improved when combining phenotypic and genomic information in a genomics-assisted selection approach, which surpassed both genomics-based and classical phenotypic selection methods both for single trait predictions and in genomic index selection across years. The employed genomic selection indices mitigated furthermore the negative trade-off between grain yield and protein content leading to a substantial selection response for protein yield, i.e. total seed nitrogen content, which suggested that it is feasible to develop varieties that combine a superior yield potential with comparably high protein content, thus utilizing available nitrogen resources more efficiently.
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- Sebastian Michel
- Department of Agrobiotechnology, IFA-Tulln, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Konrad-Lorenz-Str. 20, 3430, Tulln, Austria.
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- Saatzucht Donau GesmbH & CoKG, Saatzuchtstrasse 11, 2301, Probstdorf, Austria
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- Saatzucht Donau GesmbH & CoKG, Saatzuchtstrasse 11, 2301, Probstdorf, Austria
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- C&M Seeds, 6180 5th Line, Palmerston, ON, N0G 2P0, Canada
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- Department of Agrobiotechnology, IFA-Tulln, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Konrad-Lorenz-Str. 20, 3430, Tulln, Austria
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Usefulness Criterion and Post-selection Parental Contributions in Multi-parental Crosses: Application to Polygenic Trait Introgression. G3-GENES GENOMES GENETICS 2019; 9:1469-1479. [PMID: 30819823 PMCID: PMC6505154 DOI: 10.1534/g3.119.400129] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Predicting the usefulness of crosses in terms of expected genetic gain and genetic diversity is of interest to secure performance in the progeny and to maintain long-term genetic gain in plant breeding. A wide range of crossing schemes are possible including large biparental crosses, backcrosses, four-way crosses, and synthetic populations. In silico progeny simulations together with genome-based prediction of quantitative traits can be used to guide mating decisions. However, the large number of multi-parental combinations can hinder the use of simulations in practice. Analytical solutions have been proposed recently to predict the distribution of a quantitative trait in the progeny of biparental crosses using information of recombination frequency and linkage disequilibrium between loci. Here, we extend this approach to obtain the progeny distribution of more complex crosses including two to four parents. Considering agronomic traits and parental genome contribution as jointly multivariate normally distributed traits, the usefulness criterion parental contribution (UCPC) enables to (i) evaluate the expected genetic gain for agronomic traits, and at the same time (ii) evaluate parental genome contributions to the selected fraction of progeny. We validate and illustrate UCPC in the context of multiple allele introgression from a donor into one or several elite recipients in maize (Zea mays L.). Recommendations regarding the interest of two-way, three-way, and backcrosses were derived depending on the donor performance. We believe that the computationally efficient UCPC approach can be useful for mate selection and allocation in many plant and animal breeding contexts.
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Santos DJA, Cole JB, Lawlor TJ, VanRaden PM, Tonhati H, Ma L. Variance of gametic diversity and its application in selection programs. J Dairy Sci 2019; 102:5279-5294. [PMID: 30981488 DOI: 10.3168/jds.2018-15971] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2018] [Accepted: 02/27/2019] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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The variance of gametic diversity ( σgamete2) can be used to find individuals that more likely produce progeny with extreme breeding values. The aim of this study was to obtain this variance for individuals from routine genomic evaluations, and to apply gametic variance in a selection criterion in conjunction with breeding values to improve genetic progress. An analytical approach was developed to estimate σgamete2 by the sum of binomial variances of all individual quantitative trait loci across the genome. Simulation was used to verify the predictability of this variance in a range of scenarios. The accuracy of prediction ranged from 0.49 to 0.85, depending on the scenario and model used. Compared with sequence data, SNP data are sufficient for estimating σgamete2 Results also suggested that markers with low minor allele frequency and the covariance between markers should be included in the estimation. To incorporate σgamete2 into selective breeding programs, we proposed a new index, relative predicted transmitting ability, which better utilizes the genetic potential of individuals than traditional predicted transmitting ability. Simulation with a small genome showed an additional genetic gain of up to 16% in 10 generations, depending on the number of quantitative trait loci and selection intensity. Finally, we applied σgamete2 to the US genomic evaluations for Holstein and Jersey cattle. As expected, the DGAT1 gene had a strong effect on the estimation of σgamete2 for several production traits. However, inbreeding had a small impact on gametic variability, with greater effect for more polygenic traits. In conclusion, gametic variance, a potentially important parameter for selection programs, can be easily computed and is useful for improving genetic progress and controlling genetic diversity.
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- D J A Santos
- Department of Animal and Avian Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park 20742; Departamento de Zootecinia, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Jaboticabal, 14884-900, Brazil.
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- Henry A. Wallace Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, Animal Genomics and Improvement Laboratory, Agricultural Research Service, USDA, Beltsville, MD 20705-2350
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- Holstein Association USA, Brattleboro, VT 05302-0808
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- Henry A. Wallace Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, Animal Genomics and Improvement Laboratory, Agricultural Research Service, USDA, Beltsville, MD 20705-2350
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- Departamento de Zootecinia, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Jaboticabal, 14884-900, Brazil
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- Department of Animal and Avian Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park 20742.
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Steiner B, Michel S, Maccaferri M, Lemmens M, Tuberosa R, Buerstmayr H. Exploring and exploiting the genetic variation of Fusarium head blight resistance for genomic-assisted breeding in the elite durum wheat gene pool. TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2019; 132:969-988. [PMID: 30506523 PMCID: PMC6449325 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-018-3253-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2018] [Accepted: 11/27/2018] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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KEY MESSAGE Genomic selection had a higher selection response for FHB resistance than phenotypic selection, while association mapping identified major QTL on chromosome 3B unaffected by plant height and flowering date. Fusarium head blight (FHB) is one of the most destructive diseases of durum wheat. Hence, minimizing losses in yield, quality and avoiding contamination with mycotoxins are of pivotal importance, as durum wheat is mostly used for human consumption. While growing resistant varieties is the most promising approach for controlling this fungal disease, FHB resistance breeding in durum wheat is hampered by the limited variation in the elite gene pool and difficulties in efficiently combining the numerous small-effect resistance quantitative trait loci (QTL) in the same line. We evaluated an international collection of 228 genotyped durum wheat cultivars for FHB resistance over 3 years to investigate the genetic architecture and potential of genomic-assisted breeding for FHB resistance in durum wheat. Plant height was strongly positively correlated with FHB resistance and led to co-localization of plant height and resistance QTL. Nevertheless, a major QTL on chromosome 3B independent of plant height was identified in the same chromosomal interval as reported for the prominent hexaploid resistance QTL Fhb1, though haplotype analysis highlighted the distinctiveness of both QTL. Comparison between phenotypic and genomic selection for FHB resistance revealed a superior prediction ability of the former. However, simulated selection experiments resulted in higher selection responses when using genomic breeding values for early generation selection. An earlier identification of the most promising lines and crossing parents was feasible with a genomic selection index, which suggested a much faster short-term population improvement than previously possible in durum wheat, complementing long-term strategies with exotic resistance donors.
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- Barbara Steiner
- Department of Agrobiotechnology (IFA-Tulln), Institute of Biotechnology in Plant Production, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU), Konrad-Lorenz-Str. 20, 3430, Tulln, Austria
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- Department of Agrobiotechnology (IFA-Tulln), Institute of Biotechnology in Plant Production, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU), Konrad-Lorenz-Str. 20, 3430, Tulln, Austria.
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- Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences, University of Bologna, 40127, Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Agrobiotechnology (IFA-Tulln), Institute of Biotechnology in Plant Production, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU), Konrad-Lorenz-Str. 20, 3430, Tulln, Austria
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- Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences, University of Bologna, 40127, Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Agrobiotechnology (IFA-Tulln), Institute of Biotechnology in Plant Production, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU), Konrad-Lorenz-Str. 20, 3430, Tulln, Austria
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Rembe M, Zhao Y, Jiang Y, Reif JC. Reciprocal recurrent genomic selection: an attractive tool to leverage hybrid wheat breeding. TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2019; 132:687-698. [PMID: 30488192 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-018-3244-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2018] [Accepted: 11/16/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Using a two-part breeding strategy based on a population improvement and a product development component can leverage hybrid wheat breeding. Despite the technological advance of methods to facilitate hybrid breeding in self-pollinating crops, line breeding is still the dominating breeding strategy. This is likely due to a higher long-term selection gain in line compared to hybrid breeding. In this respect, recent studies on two-part strategies splitting the breeding program into a population improvement and a product development component could mark a trend reversal. Here, an overview of experimental and simulation-based studies exploring the possibilities to integrate genome-wide prediction into recurrent selection is given. Furthermore, possibilities to make use of recurrent selection for inter-population improvement are discussed. Current findings of simulation studies and quantitative genetic considerations suggest that long-term selection gain of hybrid breeding can be increased by implementing a two-part selection strategy based on reciprocal recurrent genomic selection. This would strengthen the competitiveness of hybrid versus line breeding facilitating to develop outstanding hybrid varieties also for self-pollinating plants such as wheat.
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- Maximilian Rembe
- Department of Breeding Research, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), 06466, Gatersleben, Germany
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- Department of Breeding Research, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), 06466, Gatersleben, Germany
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- Department of Breeding Research, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), 06466, Gatersleben, Germany
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- Department of Breeding Research, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), 06466, Gatersleben, Germany.
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