seedlessness is the most important trait in table grape and raisin industry which has attracted breeders from long ago. breeding grapes by traditional methods result in low number of seedless progenies and their selection requires long time. therefore, marker-assisted selection (mas) can overcome the selection difficulty and would decrease high cost of progeny maintenance for several years. in ...

Marker-assisted backcrossing is routinely applied in breeding programs for gene introgression. While selection theory is the most important tool for the design of breeding programs for improvement of quantitative characters, no general selection theory is available for marker-assisted backcrossing. In this treatise, we develop a theory for marker-assisted selection for the proportion of the gen...

Genomic selection is an upgrading form of marker-assisted selection for quantitative traits, and it differs from the traditional marker-assisted selection in that markers in the entire genome are used to predict genetic values and the QTL detection step is skipped. Genomic selection holds the promise to be more efficient than the traditional marker-assisted selection for traits controlled by po...