Background The genetic provenance of domesticated plants and the routes along which
they were disseminated in prehistory have been a long-standing source of debate. Much of …

Prediction accuracy of genomic selection (GS) has been previously evaluated through
simulation and cross‐validation; however, validation based on progeny performance in a …

Predicting genetic variances of biparental populations has been a long‐standing goal for
plant breeders. The ability to discriminate among crosses with similarly predicted high …

The ability to access alleles from unadapted germplasm collections is a long-standing
problem for geneticists and breeders. Here we developed, characterized, and demonstrated …

Genetic differentiation in natural populations is driven by geographic distance and by
ecological or physical features within and between natural habitats that reduce migration …

Targeted identification and purging of deleterious genetic variants has been proposed as a
novel approach to animal and plant breeding. This strategy is motivated, in part, by the …

Barley is one of the founder crops of Old world agriculture and has become the fourth most
important cereal worldwide. Information on genome-scale DNA polymorphisms allows …

Barley was introduced to North America∼ 400 yr ago but adaptation to modern production
environments is more recent. Comparisons of allele frequencies among growth habits and …

The increase in availability of resequencing data is greatly accelerating SNP discovery and
has facilitated the development of SNP genotyping assays. This, in turn, is increasing …

Plant conservation hinges on preserving biodiversity, which is crucial for long-term
adaptation. Multiple studies have reported genetic evidence of crop-to-wild introgression in …