Marker Assisted Selection: a Fast Track to Increase Genetic Gain in Plant and Animal Breeding? Session I: Mas in Plants

Marker Assisted Selection: a Fast Track to Increase Genetic Gain in Plant and Animal Breeding? Session I: Mas in Plants

Marker Assisted Selection: a Fast Track to Increase Genetic Gain in Plant and Animal Breeding? Session Ii: Mas in Animals

Marker-Assisted-Selection (MAS) is mainly important in situations, where the current accuracy of selection is low, e.g. traits with low heritability, limited, late-in-life, or afterslaughter recording. In veloand whizzo genetics schemes, the number of selection cycles per time period is minimized, which may increase rates of genetic gain dramatically. Genomic selection is used to obtain a high ...

Marker Assisted Selection: a Fast Track to Increase Genetic Gain in Plant and Animal Breeding? Session Ii: Mas in Animals

Designs used for detecting QTL in livestock vary from experimental backcross and F2 populations to half-sib designs that use existing family structures within a commercial population. This contribution discusses how the initial design in which the QTL are detected affects: a) the implementation of MAS and b) the fine mapping of the QTL. The optimal approach depends on the livestock species and ...

Marker Assisted Selection: a Fast Track to Increase Genetic Gain in Plant and Animal Breeding? Session I: Mas in Plants

The development of molecular techniques for genetic analysis has led to a great increase in our knowledge of cereal genetics and our understanding of the structure and behaviour of cereal genomes. These molecular techniques, in particular the use of molecular markers, have been used to monitor DNA sequence variation in and among the species and create new sources of genetic variation by introdu...

Marker assisted selection for the improvement of Sarjoo-52 for drought tolerance by introgression of MQTL1.1 from the source Nagina–22

Literatures have reported that a lot of drought related genes were cloned and individual gene showed positive effects under controlled stress experiments, but were not much effective in the field. Although, the progresses by conventional breeding approaches were achievable as some drought varieties have been released to the farmers in the recent years but this is not adequate to cope up with th...