“When the Nobel Peace Prize Committee designated me the recipient of the 1970 award for my contribution to the ‘green revolution,’ they were in effect, I believe, selecting an individual to symbolize the vital role of agriculture and food production in a world that is hungry, both for bread and for peace.”

Norman Borlaug- agronomist and awarded multiple honors for his work, including the Nobel Peace Prize.

Concepts in Plant Breeding

  • Important breeding concepts

  • Survey plant breeding methods

  • Best Linear Mixed Effect

  • Pedigree and relationship matrices

  • Breeding value prediction and BLUP

  • Random x fixed Effects

Slides

  1. Breeding concepts

  2. Plant breeding methods

  3. Breeding value prediction and BLUP

References

Books

  • Linear Models for the Prediction of Animal Breeding Values 3rd Edition by Raphael A. Mrode (Author) - Important concepts about linear mixed effects

  • Introduction to Quantitative Genetics (4th Edition) 4th Edition by Douglas S. Falconer (Author), Trudy F.C. Mackay (Author) - Reference book for the understanding of methods and concepts in quantitative genetics

  • Genetics and Analysis of Quantitative Traits 1st Edition by Michael Lynch (Author), Bruce Walsh (Author) - A complete book. It covers several topics in genetics including, population genetics, quantitative, evolution, molecular biology and breeding.

Papers

  • Dekkers, J. C. (2002). The use of molecular genetics in the improvement of agricultural populations. Nature Reviews. Genetics, 3(1), 22.

  • Moose, S. P., & Mumm, R. H. (2008). Molecular plant breeding as the foundation for 21st century crop improvement. Plant physiology, 147(3), 969-977.

  • Piepho, H. P., Möhring, J., Melchinger, A. E., & Büchse, A. (2008). BLUP for phenotypic selection in plant breeding and variety testing. Euphytica, 161(1-2), 209-228.

  • Robinson, G. K. (1991). That BLUP is a good thing: the estimation of random effects. Statistical science, 15-32.

Concepts in DNA Molecular Markers

  • Morphological markers

  • Hybridization- Based Markers

  • Whole Genome Sequencing

  • Sequence Capture

  • Genotype by Sequencing (GBS)

  • SNP chips

Slides

  1. Molecular Markers

References

Papers

  • Britt, A. B., & Kuppu, S. (2016). Cenh3: an emerging player in haploid induction technology. Frontiers in plant science, 7.

  • Davey, J. W., Hohenlohe, P. A., Etter, P. D., Boone, J. Q., Catchen, J. M., & Blaxter, M. L. (2011). Genome-wide genetic marker discovery and genotyping using next-generation sequencing. Nature reviews. Genetics, 12(7), 499.

  • Germana, M. A. (2006). Doubled haploid production in fruit crops. Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture, 86(2), 131.

  • Kumar, P., Gupta, V. K., Misra, A. K., Modi, D. R., & Pandey, B. K. (2009). Potential of molecular markers in plant biotechnology. Plant Omics, 2(4), 141.

  • Mir, R. R., Hiremath, P. J., Riera-Lizarazu, O., & Varshney, R. K. (2013). Evolving molecular marker technologies in plants: from RFLPs to GBS. In Diagnostics in Plant Breeding (pp. 229-247). Springer Netherlands.

  • Murovec, J., & Bohanec, B. (2012). Haploids and doubled haploids in plant breeding. In Plant breeding. InTech.

  • Ravi, M., & Chan, S. W. (2010). Haploid plants produced by centromere-mediated genome elimination. Nature, 464(7288), 615-618.

  • Xynias, I., Koufalis, A., Gouli-Vavdinoudi, E., & Roupakias, D. (2014). Factors affecting doubled haploid plant production via maize technique in bread wheat. Acta Biologica Cracoviensia s. Botanica, 56(2), 67-73.