The vast diversity of breeding methods can be simplified into three categories. Nowadays, genomic selection is widely applied in breeding populations of plants and animals for the selection of future breeding individuals. Several studies have investigated the accuracy of genomic predictions in maize but there is little empirical evidence on the practical performance of lines selected based on phenotype in comparison with those selected solely on gebvs in advanced testcross yield. Methods, models, and perspectives december 1, 2017 in blog, plant science research weekly, research, research blog by isabel mendoza in future years, climate change may cause significant economic losses to countries worldwide. The concept of marker assisted selection mas is rapidly evolving in animal and plant breeding. Genomic selection or genomewide selection gs has been highlighted as a new approach for markerassisted selection mas in recent years. Prediction methods and approaches for plant breeding dissertation. Plant breeding can be broadly defined as alterations caused in plants as a result of their use by humans, ranging from unintentional changes resulting from the advent of agriculture to the application of molecular tools for precision breeding. Genomic enabled prediction is becoming increasingly important in animal and plant breeding and is also receiving attention in human genetics. Genomic selection using regularized linear regression. With the need to accelerate the development of improved varieties, genomicsassisted breeding is becoming an important tool in breeding programs.
Genomic selection gs is a new approach for improving quantitative traits in large plant breeding populations that uses whole. Article pdf available in trends in plant science 2211 september. Two genomic data sets were used to compare the prediction ability of multienvironment g. Deriving accurate predictions of complex traits requires implementing wholegenome regression wgr models where phenotypes are regressed on thousands of markers concurrently. The most primitive form of plant breeding was the selection of naturally occurring variants in the wild and, later, in cultivated fields. Unlike markerassisted selection, the gebv is based on all markers including both minor and major marker effects. We anticipate that crisprcas technologies, in combination with modern breeding methods, will play an important role in future crop improvement programs, but other technologies for genomic prediction and selection will also remain important.
Genomic selection can increase genetic gain per generation through early selection. Status and perspectives of genomic selection in forest tree breeding. The opinions expressed and arguments employed in this publication are the sole. Genomic selection in plant breeding a handson short course in r monday 12 june thursday 15 june 2017 obrien centre for science, ucd, dublin, ireland. Consequently, genetic improvement of crops fit for droughtstressed and semiarid regions is becoming a must. Reference genome sequencing has been completed, both for japonica and for. Genomic prediction models were developed for a multispecies synthetic breeding population composed by 856 trees distributed across 37 fullsib families derived from an. The advantage of genomic selection over mas in plant breeding was demonstrated in several. Optimizing genomic selection for a sorghum breeding. General gs methods are based on additive models, and their accuracies may be different because.
Will genomic selection be a practical method for plant breeding. The course is focusing on the application of plant breeding concepts through practical exercises in r. Genomic selection predicts the breeding values of lines in a population by analyzing their phenotypes and high. Young breeding programs in developing countries, like the chibas sorghum breeding program in haiti, face the challenge of increasing genetic gain with limited resources. Several interesting applications of genome editing may become available in the next 5 years.
Gs is a form of mas that selects favourable individuals based on genomic estimated breeding values. Design of training populations for selective phenotyping. Genomic selection gs is a method in plant breeding to predict the genetic value of untested lines based on genome wide marker data. Genomewide selection or genomic selection estimates marker effects across the full ordering of the breeding population bp supported the prediction model. Traditional and modern plant breeding methods with. Genomic selection gs uses genomewide markers as an attempt to accelerate genetic gain in breeding programs of both animals and plants. Genomic selection allows thereby choosing the genetically best individuals without the need to confirm qtl. Historical datasets support genomic selection models for. Keywords breeding methods genomic selection genotype by environment. Methods, models, and perspectives jose crossa,1, paulino perezrodriguez,2 jaime cuevas,3 osval montesinoslopez,4 diego jarquin,5 gustavo.
Frontiers genomic selection outperforms marker assisted. Assessing the expected response to genomic selection of. Genomic selection in hybrid breeding wiley online library. Genomic selection gs facilitates the rapid selection of superior genotypes and accelerates the breeding cycle. Methods, models, and perspectives jose 4 crossa,1, paulino perezrodriguez,2 jaime cuevas,3 osval 6 montesinoslopez, diego jarquin,5. Genomic selection across multiple breeding cycles in. Statistical methods in genomic selection for hybrid. Prediction of genetic values of quantitative traits in plant. Breeding, biotechnology and molecular tools 2015 genomic selection in plant breeding. Marker assisted selection mas uses molecular markers in linkage disequilibrium ld with qtl. In this study, we evaluated the performance of bayes ridge regression, bayesa. In essence, it involves estimating the simultaneous effects of all genes or chromosomal segments and combining the estimates to predict the total genomic breeding value gebv. Genomic selection for crop improvement new molecular breeding.
Mar 27, 2014 genomic selection gs has created a lot of excitement and expectations in the animal and plant breeding research communities. Plant signaling, physiology and breeding perspectives. The concept of genomic selection, proposed in 2001, has since been further developed and applied. E interactions have recently been developed and used in genomic selection gs in plant breeding programs. A total of 169 doubled haploid lines derived from the cross between cml495 and lpsc7f64 and 190.
Alternative approaches to genomic selection prediction models may perform differently for traits with distinct genetic properties. Thus, the objective of this research was to compare the predictive performance of ten different statistical methods employed in genomic selection by using data from a heterogeneous stock mice population, aiming to provide some insight in the scope of statistical methods useful for genomic selection and in the interplay between the genetic. Genomic selection for processing and enduse quality traits in the cimmyt spring bread wheat breeding program. Genomic selection provides many opportunities to increase genetic gain in plant breeding per unit time and cost. The singlestep method extends the genomic relationship information from. In times of climate change, the frequency of extreme weather events is expected to increase. However, the evaluation of models for genomic selection in plant breeding populations is very limited. Methods, models, and perspectives article pdf available in trends in plant science 2211 september 2017 with 4,627 reads how we measure reads.
Gs, has been proposed as a method to improve the breeding. E interactions decrease selection accuracy and limit genetic gains in plant breeding. This approach is particularly useful for perennial crops such as oil palm, which have long breeding cycles, and for which the optimal method for gs is still under debate. While improving food security in these regions will require a multifaceted approach, improved performance of crop varieties in these regions will play a critical role. Frontiers empirical comparison of tropical maize hybrids. Bayesian genomicenabled prediction models for ordinal and count data. With the advent of high throughput molecular technology, numerous molecular markers distributed throughout the whole genome can be produced to characterize many genetic entries involving new perspectives in methodology of selection. In future years, climate change may cause significant economic losses to countries worldwide. The first genomic selection alike models for hybrid performance plant breeding, 4,110 2015 doi. Genomic selection is expected to be particularly valuable for traits that are costly to phenotype and expressed late in the life cycle of longlived species. A comparison of statistical methods for genomic selection in. Traditional plant breeding programs rely mainly on phenotypes being evaluated in several environments. The key step in crop breeding is selection, and conventional breeding is based on phenotypic selection. May 01, 2018 genomic selection gs has successfully been used in plant breeding to improve selection efficiency and reduce breeding time and cost.
This article evaluates the performance of parametric and semiparametric models for gs using wheat triticum aestivum l. Within each breeding cycles a different set of 64176 lines was tested orthogonally across all trial locations. Genome optimization for improvement of maize breeding. Genomic selection gs is a method in plant breeding to predict the. Will genomic selection be a practical method for plant. Genomic selection for crop improvement new molecular. Genomic selection gs has successfully been used in plant breeding to improve selection efficiency and reduce breeding time and cost. Historical datasets support genomic selection models for the. Breeding for disease resistance is a central focus of plant breeding programs, as any successful variety must have the complete package of high yield, disease resistance, agronomic performance, and enduse quality.
The final chapter looks toward the future and what lies ahead for field as application of genomic selection becomes more widespread. In this study, we provide an overview of several models for genomic selection, whose predictive ability we investigated using two plant data sets. Advances and challenges in genomic selection for disease. A key to the success of gs is that it incorporates all marker information in the prediction model, thereby avoiding biased marker effect estimates and capturing more of the variation due to small. Traditional and modern plant breeding methods with examples. A balanced subset of trial locations was selected for evaluating the merit of genomic selection across multiple breeding cycles. New plant breeding technologies for food security science. He develops methods using dna markers to increase the efficiency of small grain improvement and facilitate the use of those methods in public small grain breeding programs. Feb 28, 2014 whole genome selection genomic selection. Genomic selection for crop improvement serves as handbook for users by providing basic as well as advanced. Genomic selection predicts the genomic estimated breeding values gebvs of individuals not previously phenotyped.
This tool has been shown to be valuable in cases of animal and plant breeding, like in genomic selection. Optimizing genomic selection for a sorghum breeding program. From theory to practice, abstract we intuitively believe that the dramatic drop in the cost of dna marker information we have experienced should have immediate benefits in accelerating the delivery of crop varieties with improved yield, quality and biotic and abiotic stress tolerance. Genomic selection in plant breeding predicting breeding values, nonadditive effects and application to matepair allocation.
Genomic prediction and selection genomic selection presents a solution to the shortcomings of mas for polygenic traits. In this study, we evaluated the performance of bayes ridge regression, bayesa, bayesb, bayesc and. A reaction norm model for genomic selection using high. From the perspective of increasing genetic gain, a key bottleneck with this conventional approach is that alleles are only recombined in the crossing stage at the beginning of the breeding cycle. Selection in plant breeding is usually based on estimates of breeding values obtained with pedigreemixed models. Genomicenabled prediction is becoming increasingly important in animal and plant breeding and is also receiving attention in human genetics.
However, there has not been a study to evaluate gs prediction models that may be used for predicting cotton breeding lines across multiple environments. Several genomic prediction models incorporating genotype. Methods exist that allow implementing these largep with smalln regressions. Genomic selection since 1967 science to cultivate change decreased genotyping costs and new statistical methods enable simultaneous estimation. Genetic data analysis for plant and animal breeding. A concise, useful summary of the field by one of the worlds leading researchers, genomic selection in animals fills an important gap in the literature of animal breeding and genomics. Early empirical and simulation results are promising, but for gs to deliver genetic gains. Oct 01, 2010 the availability of dense molecular markers has made possible the use of genomic selection gs for plant breeding. Here, we used simulations to identify conditions under which.
Genomic selection gs is emerging as an efficient and costeffective method for estimating breeding values using molecular markers distributed over the entire genome. The future of marker assisted selection and animal breeding theo meuwissen institute for animal science and aquaculture, box 5025, 1432 as, norway, theo. Plant genomics aims to sequence, characterize, and study the genetic compositions, structures, organizations, functions, and interactionsnetworks of an entire plant genome. Using wholegenome prediction models, the genomic selection gs strategy has paved the way to overcome these limitations. Accelerating genetic gain in sugarcane breeding using. Genomic selection gs, a method now fully integrated in genetic prediction of breeding values in domestic animals van eenennaam et al. However, pedigree information for an entire breeding population is frequently available, as are historical data on the performance of a large number of selection candidates. New molecular breeding strategies for crop improvement. In this study, we evaluated the effect of different marker systems and modeling methods. Genomic selection for crop improvement will serve as handbook for users that. Genomic selection gs is a method to predict the genetic value of selection candidates based on the genomic estimated breeding value gebv predicted from highdensity markers positioned throughout the genome. Genomic selection for crop improvement springerlink. Extensions of genomic prediction methods and approaches. Camachogonzalez,2 sergio perezelizalde,2 yoseph beyene,1 susanne dreisigacker,1 ravi singh,1 xuecai zhang,1 manje gowda,1.
The usage of genomic selection strategy in plant breeding. Holley center for agriculture and health, and also at the department of plant breeding and genetics, cornell university. Genomic selection for crop improvement serves as handbook for users by providing basic as well as advanced understandings of genomic selection. October 10, 2019 tum school of life sciences weihenstephan, freising, germany we kindly invite you to attend the tast2019 symposium, part of the plant sciences symposia series. Isobe, will genomic selection be a practical method for plant breeding. One step vs two steps in r one step models two step models the aim of this course is to provide a basic quantitative and statistical framework to apply genomic selection gs in a routine manner. Oct 21, 2014 genomic selection on rice early generation selection in a recurrent selection breeding program within a synthetic population since 1967 science to cultivate change cecile grenier tuongvi cao 2. Its development and advances are tightly interconnected with proteomics, metabolomics, metagenomics, transgenomics, genomic selection, bioinformatics, epigenomics, phenomics, system biology, modern instrumentation. Evaluation of methods and marker systems in genomic selection.
Mar 27, 2020 much of the worlds population growth will occur in regions where food insecurity is prevalent, with large increases in food demand projected in regions of africa and south asia. Traditional and modern plant breeding methods with examples in rice oryza sativa l. Genomic selection for crop improvement heffner 2009. We propose a new model to improve maize breeding that incorporates doubled haploid production, genomic selection, and genome optimization. Methods, models, and perspectives trends in plant science 2017 22. Implementing genomic selection gs could increase genetic gain, but optimization of gs is needed to account for these programs unique challenges and advantages. However, the evaluation of models for gs in real plant populations is very limited. However, the optimal strategy and stage for implementation of gs in a plant breeding program is still. Extensions of genomic prediction methods and approaches for. The method has been widely explored with simulated data and also in real plant breeding programs. Genomic prediction models have been commonly used in plant breeding but only in reduced datasets comprising a few hundred genotyped individuals. Sep 10, 2012 advances in plant breeding strategies.