Jonas, Elisabeth
- Department of Animal Biosciences, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Abstract
Plant breeding largely depends on phenotypic selection in plots and only for some, often disease-resistance-related traits, uses genetic markers. The more recently developed concept of genomic selection, using a black box approach with no need of prior knowledge about the effect or function of individual markers, has also been proposed as a great opportunity for plant breeding. Several empirical and theoretical studies have focused on the possibility to implement this as a novel molecular method across various species. Although we do not question the potential of genomic selection in general, in this Opinion, we emphasize that genomic selection approaches from dairy cattle breeding cannot be easily applied to complex plant breeding.
Keywords
crops; estimated breeding value; genomic selection; marker-assisted selection
Published in
Trends in Biotechnology
2013, volume: 31, number: 9, pages: 497-504
SLU Authors
de Koning, Dirk-Jan
- Department of Animal Biosciences, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
- Department of Animal Biosciences, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
UKÄ Subject classification
Genetics and Breeding in Agricultural Sciences
Publication identifier
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tibtech.2013.06.003
Permanent link to this page (URI)
https://res.slu.se/id/publ/52377