Genomic Selection for Crop Improvement

Rajeev K. Varshney is a Global Research Program Director for Genetics Gains at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) and Wintrhop Research Professor at the University of Western Australia. For the last 20 years, he has been engaged in translating genomic information in international agriculture through genomics-assisted breeding, especially in grain legume crops. Manish Roorkiwal is a scientist at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT). He is working on developing and deploying forward breeding approaches such as genomic selection for legume improvement. Mark E. Sorrells is Professor of Plant Breeding and Genetics with 40 years of research experience in crop improvement. He is a Fellow at the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future and Fellow at the Cornell Institute for Food Systems. He is a pioneer and practitioner in optimising and deploying modern breeding approaches, including genomic selection in wheat improvement.

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.