Genomic Selection for Crop Improvement New Molecular Breeding Strategies for Crop Improvement /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Varshney, Rajeev K. (Editor), Roorkiwal, Manish (Editor), Sorrells, Mark E. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Agriculture.; Plant anatomy.; Plant development.; Plant physiology.; Plant breeding.; Life Sciences.; Plant Genetics and Genomics.; Plant Breeding/Biotechnology.; Plant Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography.; Plant Anatomy/Development.; Plant Physiology.

Genomic Selection for Crop Improvement serves as handbook for users by providing basic as well as advanced understandings of genomic selection. This useful review  explains germplasm use, phenotyping evaluation, marker genotyping methods, and statistical models involved in genomic selection. It also...

Table of Contents:

• Forward
• Preface
• Genomic Selection for Crop Improvement: An Introduction
• Training population design and resource allocation for genomic selection in plant breeding
• Derivation of Linear Models for Quantitative Traits by Bayesian Estimation with Gibbs Sampling
• Bayesian genomic-enabled prediction models for ordinal and count data
• Genomic Selection for Small Grains Improvement
• Current status and prospects of genomic selection in legumes
• Genomic Selection in Hybrid Breeding
• Opportunities and Challenges to Implementing Genomic Selection in Clonally Propagated Crops
• Status and perspectives of Genomic Selection in forest tree breeding.