Improved methods of predicting genetic merit in plant breeding programs using linear mixed models

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Bibliography 87 A Electronic Supplementary Material Development of genomic prediction in sorghum 105 CONTENTS xi B Electronic Supplementary Material Multi-Environment analysis of sorghum breeding trials using additive and dominance genomic relationships 111 C Supplimentary material -Identifying efficient strategies for preliminary evaluation in hybrid breeding programs List of Figures 1.1 The Australian sorghum growing area and the trial locations for the DAF/QAAFI sorghum

Svalöf: a High Yielding Potato with Resistance to Late Blight in Nordic Latitudes

“…Although potato productivity increased throughout the 20 th Century in both USA and Europe, the overall annual genetic gain for tuber yield were small (Douches et al 1996;Ortiz et al 2022b). For example, it was about 0.25% for cultivars released in Europe across testing sites in Skåne (Ortiz et al 2002b), which is significantly below that setup by the CGIAR as a key performance indicator (Hunt 2021). Considering that the pedigree of Svalöf includes four cultivars released between 1910 and 2012, the estimated annual genetic gains to be achieved by releasing this breeding clone for farming in southern Scandinavia under the name of Svalöf, will be around 0.54% for tuber yield and about 0.6% for host plant resistance to P. infestans (using the data from Ortiz et al 2022b).…”