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Will genomic selection be a practical method for plant breeding?
Annals of botany - 1 Nov 2012
Nakaya Akihiro, Isobe Sachiko N
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BACKGROUND: Genomic selection or genome-wide selection (GS) has been highlighted as a new approach for marker-assisted selection (MAS) in recent years. GS is a form of MAS that selects favourable individuals based on genomic estimated breeding values. Previous studies have suggested the utility of GS, especially for capturing small-effect quantitative trait loci, but GS has not become a popular methodology in the...
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