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From family trials to genomic mate allocation: statistical and genomic strategies to accelerate sugarcane genetic improvement.
TAG. Theoretical and applied genetics. Theoretische und angewandte Genetik - 12 Sept 2026
Rigby Andrew, Atkin Felicity, Hayes Ben, Hickey Lee, Yadav Seema
Abstract excerpt
Sugarcane (Saccharum spp.) underpins global sugar and bioenergy supply and is increasingly valued as a renewable biomass feedstock. Sustained improvement in commercial traits and resilience is constrained by long breeding cycles, clonal propagation, multi-stage testing, and a highly polyploid, heterozygous, and frequently aneuploid genome with substantial non-additive genetic variation. Genomic selection has...
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- Saccharum
- Plant Breeding
- Genomics
- Genome, Plant
- Models, Genetic
- Genotype
