Search Results - "Heredity"

Seed germination and vigor: ensuring crop sustainability in a changing climate by Reed, Reagan C, Bradford, Kent J, Khanday, Imtiyaz

“…In the coming decades, maintaining a steady food supply for the increasing world population will require high-yielding crop plants which can be productive…”
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Multi-parent populations in crops: a toolbox integrating genomics and genetic mapping with breeding by Scott, Michael F, Ladejobi, Olufunmilayo, Amer, Samer, Bentley, Alison R, Biernaskie, Jay, Boden, Scott A, Clark, Matt, Dell'Acqua, Matteo, Dixon, Laura E, Filippi, Carla V, Fradgley, Nick, Gardner, Keith A, Mackay, Ian J, O'Sullivan, Donal, Percival-Alwyn, Lawrence, Roorkiwal, Manish, Singh, Rakesh Kumar, Thudi, Mahendar, Varshney, Rajeev Kumar, Venturini, Luca, Whan, Alex, Cockram, James, Mott, Richard

“…Crop populations derived from experimental crosses enable the genetic dissection of complex traits and support modern plant breeding. Among these, multi-parent…”
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Constraints on the evolution of phenotypic plasticity: limits and costs of phenotype and plasticity by Murren, C J, Auld, J R, Callahan, H, Ghalambor, C K, Handelsman, C A, Heskel, M A, Kingsolver, J G, Maclean, H J, Masel, J, Maughan, H, Pfennig, D W, Relyea, R A, Seiter, S, Snell-Rood, E, Steiner, U K, Schlichting, C D

“…Phenotypic plasticity is ubiquitous and generally regarded as a key mechanism for enabling organisms to survive in the face of environmental change. Because no…”
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Rethinking phenotypic plasticity and its consequences for individuals, populations and species by Forsman, A

“…Much research has been devoted to identify the conditions under which selection favours flexible individuals or genotypes that are able to modify their growth,…”
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Reinventing quantitative genetics for plant breeding: something old, something new, something borrowed, something BLUE by Bernardo, Rex

“…The goals of quantitative genetics differ according to its field of application. In plant breeding, the main focus of quantitative genetics is on identifying…”
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Prediction and estimation of effective population size by Wang, J, Santiago, E, Caballero, A

“…Effective population size (Ne) is a key parameter in population genetics. It has important applications in evolutionary biology, conservation genetics and…”
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A method for analysis of phenotypic change for phenotypes described by high-dimensional data by Collyer, M L, Sekora, D J, Adams, D C

“…The analysis of phenotypic change is important for several evolutionary biology disciplines, including phenotypic plasticity, evolutionary developmental…”
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Big data in digital healthcare: lessons learnt and recommendations for general practice by Agrawal, Raag, Prabakaran, Sudhakaran

“…Big Data will be an integral part of the next generation of technological developments-allowing us to gain new insights from the vast quantities of data being…”
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The influence of a priori grouping on inference of genetic clusters: simulation study and literature review of the DAPC method by Miller, Joshua M, Cullingham, Catherine I, Peery, Rhiannon M

“…Inference of genetic clusters is a key aim of population genetics, sparking development of numerous analytical methods. Within these, there is a conceptual…”
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Phenology and related traits for wheat adaptation by Hyles, Jessica, Bloomfield, Maxwell T, Hunt, James R, Trethowan, Richard M, Trevaskis, Ben

“…Wheat is a major food crop, with around 765 million tonnes produced globally. The largest wheat producers include the European Union, China, India, Russia,…”
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Common garden experiments in the genomic era: new perspectives and opportunities by de Villemereuil, P, Gaggiotti, O E, Mouterde, M, Till-Bottraud, I

“…The study of local adaptation is rendered difficult by many evolutionary confounding phenomena (for example, genetic drift and demographic history). When…”
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Genome-wide prediction models that incorporate de novo GWAS are a powerful new tool for tropical rice improvement by Spindel, J E, Begum, H, Akdemir, D, Collard, B, Redoña, E, Jannink, J-L, McCouch, S

“…To address the multiple challenges to food security posed by global climate change, population growth and rising incomes, plant breeders are developing new…”
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On the importance of being structured: instantaneous coalescence rates and human evolution--lessons for ancestral population size inference? by Mazet, O, Rodríguez, W, Grusea, S, Boitard, S, Chikhi, L

“…Most species are structured and influenced by processes that either increased or reduced gene flow between populations. However, most population genetic…”
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Nonlinear kernels, dominance, and envirotyping data increase the accuracy of genome-based prediction in multi-environment trials by Costa-Neto, Germano, Fritsche-Neto, Roberto, Crossa, José

“…Modern whole-genome prediction (WGP) frameworks that focus on multi-environment trials (MET) integrate large-scale genomics, phenomics, and envirotyping data…”
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pLARmEB: integration of least angle regression with empirical Bayes for multilocus genome-wide association studies by Zhang, J, Feng, J-Y, Ni, Y-L, Wen, Y-J, Niu, Y, Tamba, C L, Yue, C, Song, Q, Zhang, Y-M

“…Multilocus genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have become the state-of-the-art procedure to identify quantitative trait nucleotides (QTNs) associated with…”
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Multiple genomic signatures of selection in goats and sheep indigenous to a hot arid environment by Kim, E-S, Elbeltagy, A R, Aboul-Naga, A M, Rischkowsky, B, Sayre, B, Mwacharo, J M, Rothschild, M F

“…Goats and sheep are versatile domesticates that have been integrated into diverse environments and production systems. Natural and artificial selection have…”
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Applications of next generation sequencing in molecular ecology of non-model organisms by Ekblom, R, Galindo, J

“…As most biologists are probably aware, technological advances in molecular biology during the last few years have opened up possibilities to rapidly generate…”
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Genomic prediction in CIMMYT maize and wheat breeding programs by Crossa, J, Pérez, P, Hickey, J, Burgueño, J, Ornella, L, Cerón-Rojas, J, Zhang, X, Dreisigacker, S, Babu, R, Li, Y, Bonnett, D, Mathews, K

“…Genomic selection (GS) has been implemented in animal and plant species, and is regarded as a useful tool for accelerating genetic gains. Varying levels of…”
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Estimating contemporary effective population size in non-model species using linkage disequilibrium across thousands of loci by Waples, R K, Larson, W A, Waples, R S

“…Contemporary effective population size (Ne) can be estimated using linkage disequilibrium (LD) observed across pairs of loci presumed to be selectively neutral…”
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pKWmEB: integration of Kruskal-Wallis test with empirical Bayes under polygenic background control for multi-locus genome-wide association study by Ren, Wen-Long, Wen, Yang-Jun, Dunwell, Jim M, Zhang, Yuan-Ming

“…Although nonparametric methods in genome-wide association studies (GWAS) are robust in quantitative trait nucleotide (QTN) detection, the absence of polygenic…”
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