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Intensive public sector breeding efforts and public-private partnerships have led to the increase in genetic gains, and deployment of elite climate-resilient maize cultivars for the stress-prone environments ...
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Historical data from breeding programs can be efficiently used to improve genomic selection accuracy, especially when the training set is optimized to subset individuals most informative of the target testing ...
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Open AccessGenomic prediction across years in a maize doubled haploid breeding program to accelerate early-stage testcross testing
Genomic selection with a multiple-year training population dataset could accelerate early-stage testcross testing by skip** the first-stage yield testing, which significantly saves the time a...
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Open AccessA wheat protein kinase gene TaSnRK2.9-5A associated with yield contributing traits
We developed breeder-friendly high-throughput and cost-effective KASP marker for marker-assisted selection for grain yield related traits in wheat.
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Open AccessMolecular characterization of CIMMYT maize inbred lines with genoty**-by-sequencing SNPs
Molecular characterization information on genetic diversity, population structure and genetic relationships provided by this research will help maize breeders to better understand how to utiliz...