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Luc Janss

Genomic dissection and prediction of heading date in perennial ryegrass

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  • Dario Fè
  • Fabio Cericola
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  • Stephen Byrne
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  • Ingo Lenk, DLF-Trifolium A/S, Danmark
  • Bilal Hassan Ashraf
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  • Morten Greve Pedersen, DLF-Trifolium A/S
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  • Niels Roulund, DLF-Trifolium A/S, Danmark
  • Torben Asp
  • Luc Janss
  • Christian Sig Jensen, DLF-Trifolium A/S
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  • Just Jensen

BACKGROUND: Genomic selection (GS) has become a commonly used technology in animal breeding. In crops, it is expected to significantly improve the genetic gains per unit of time. So far, its implementation in plant breeding has been mainly investigated in species farmed as homogeneous varieties. Concerning crops farmed in family pools, only a few theoretical studies are currently available. Here, we test the opportunity to implement GS in breeding of perennial ryegrass, using real data from a forage breeding program. Heading date was chosen as a model trait, due to its high heritability and ease of assessment. Genome Wide Association analysis was performed to uncover the genetic architecture of the trait. Then, Genomic Prediction (GP) models were tested and prediction accuracy was compared to the one obtained in traditional Marker Assisted Selection (MAS) methods.

RESULTS: Several markers were significantly associated with heading date, some locating within or proximal to genes with a well-established role in floral regulation. GP models gave very high accuracies, which were significantly better than those obtained through traditional MAS. Accuracies were higher when predictions were made from related families and from larger training populations, whereas predicting from unrelated families caused the variance of the estimated breeding values to be biased downwards.

CONCLUSIONS: We have demonstrated that there are good perspectives for GS implementation in perennial ryegrass breeding, and that problems resulting from low linkage disequilibrium (LD) can be reduced by the presence of structure and related families in the breeding population. While comprehensive Genome Wide Association analysis is difficult in species with extremely low LD, we did identify variants proximal to genes with a known role in flowering time (e.g. CONSTANS and Phytochrome C).

OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftB M C Genomics
Vol/bind16
Nummer921
Sider (fra-til)1-15
Antal sider16
ISSN1471-2164
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StatusUdgivet - 2015

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