Exploiting genome-wide association in oilseed Brassica species.
Exploiting genome-wide association in oilseed Brassica species.
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利用油籽芸苔属物种的全基因组关联。
作者:
E. Balázs;Wallace Cowling
Plant and animal breeders measure the phenotype of individuals to select higher yielding, better quality, and more disease resistant types. This is not always an efficient or particularly rapid process. Animal breeders have improved estimations of breeding values and accelerated breeding cycles by including genetic relationships from pedigrees in the analysis, and more recently by implementing genomic selection (Goddard and Hayes 2009; Weller 2010). In plants, molecular markers for complex quantitative traits have been linked to genomic regions known as quantitative trait loci (QTL), based on linkage analysis in experimental populations, but with relatively poor genetic resolution. Despite the large number of reports of QTL in plants, relatively few have been used in applied plant breeding programs for selection purposes (Young 1999; Heffner et al. 2009). This has led to an interest in integrating quantitative and molecular genetics in plant breeding, in order to improve identification and manipulation of QTL (Gupta et al. 2010). Human and animal geneticists have developed sophisticated molecular and bioinformatic tools to discover molecular genetic associations between phenotype and genotype, with genetic resolution in genome-wide single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) panels high enough to identify genes related to health and disease (Manolio et al. 2007). The principles of association genetics are now being applied to plants (Oraguzie et al. 2007). In Arabidopsis, linkage disequilibrium studies based on high density SNP maps have reached new heights, approaching the intensity of human and animal studies (Atwell et al. 2010). As in animal breeding, plant breeders are now considering genomic selection as a means of accelerating genetic improvement (Heffner et al. 2009), but major issues must be resolved before genomic selection is applied efficiently and profitably to plant breeding. In plant breeding, genotypes are replicated and tested in multiple environments, and genotype by environment interactions have a major influence on estimations of the genetic or breeding value of genotypes. We considered that it was important to ask the experts how they would apply association genetics to plant breeding, so we invited human, animal, and plant molecular geneticists; bioinformaticians; plant breeders; and biometricians to come together and explore the major questions in plant genetic improvement. Will genomic selection increase genetic gain and provide economical benefits to plant breeding programs? In animals, the advantage of genomic selection over nongenomic methods is related to the proportion of the genetic variance that is explained by the markers (Hayes and Goddard 2010). In plants, simulation studies have resulted in a correlation between ‘‘true’’breeding value and genomic breeding value, up to 0.85 for polygenic traits with low heritability, making genomic selection a very attractive possibility for increasing genetic gain per unit of time (Heffner et al. 2009).With the aid of a successful application for a conference grant from the OECD Co-operative Research Programme on Biological Resource Management for Sustainable Agricultural Systems, we invited several scientists from OECD countries to an international conference titled ‘‘Exploiting Genome-wide Association in Oilseed Brassicas: a model for genetic improvement of major OECD crops for sustainable future farming’’(www. oecd-genomeassociation-oz09. com). The conference was held at The University of Western Australia, 9–12 November 2009, and was attended by 80 scientists representing more than 13 countries. The conference was preceded by a workshop titled …
影响因子:
3.1
作者:
King, Graham J.;Amoah, Stephen;Kurup, Smita
通讯作者:
Kurup, Smita
影响因子:
3.1
作者:
Weir BS
通讯作者:
Weir BS
影响因子:
3.1
作者:
Waugh R
通讯作者:
Waugh R