Breeding crops to feed 10 billion

Sequence-based breeding; application to unravel traits of the 6F crops: food, feed, fiber, flowers, fuel and fun

The genomes of the world’s most important crop species differ enormously in size, ploidy levels, repeat composition and germplasm diversity, posing a tremendous challenge to utilize them for breeding and trait improvement. Keygene’s Crop Genome Center addresses this challenge by developing and applying sequence-based methodologies to advance building genome assemblies and elucidating genetic di...

Bioinformatic aspects of breeding polyploid crops

Genomics and breeding of Brassicaceae crops

crops include oil crops, vegetables, condi-ments, fodder crops, and ornamental plants. Most of these crops belong to or are closely related to the genus Brassica. The Brassicaceae also includes the most intensively studied model plant, Arabidopsis thaliana. In molecular genetic studies of Brassicaceae crops, information on A. thaliana genes is highly useful, and many genes important for plant b...

Breeding Cold-hardy Fruit Crops in Minnesota

The Univ. of Minnesota has one of the oldest, continuous fruit breeding programs in North America. It serves a region that experiences all the vagaries of a continental climate, with temperatures ranging from above 35C in the summer to below – 40C in the winter. Precipitation, as rain during the growing season and snow during the dormant season, can vary dramatically from year to year. These wo...

Feed Intake Specifications in Defining Breeding Objectives

SUMMARY Development of selection objectives for beef cattle requires tion of the available feed resources. In production systems \Ji th to li~eral quantities of harvested feeds of relatively high quality to improve economic eff iciency ~lill normally favor animals ~li th high potentials for the primary production traits. Hovlever , these highly types may also have relatively high maintenance re...