Breeding targets to improve biomass quality in Miscanthus

K Van der Cruijsen, M Al Hassan, G van Erven… - Molecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
Lignocellulosic crops are attractive bioresources for energy and chemicals production within
a sustainable, carbon circular society. Miscanthus is one of the perennial grasses that …

Genome biology of the paleotetraploid perennial biomass crop Miscanthus

T Mitros, AM Session, BT James, GA Wu… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Miscanthus is a perennial wild grass that is of global importance for paper production,
roofing, horticultural plantings, and an emerging highly productive temperate biomass crop …

Breeding progress and preparedness for mass‐scale deployment of perennial lignocellulosic biomass crops switchgrass, miscanthus, willow and poplar

J Clifton‐Brown, A Harfouche, MD Casler… - Gcb …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Genetic improvement through breeding is one of the key approaches to increasing biomass
supply. This paper documents the breeding progress to date for four perennial biomass …

Training Population Optimization for Genomic Selection in Miscanthus

MO Olatoye, LV Clark, NR Labonte… - G3: Genes …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Miscanthus is a perennial grass with potential for lignocellulosic ethanol production. To
ensure its utility for this purpose, breeding efforts should focus on increasing genetic …

Genomic index selection provides a pragmatic framework for setting and refining multi-objective breeding targets in Miscanthus

GT Slavov, CL Davey, M Bosch, PRH Robson… - Annals of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Background Miscanthus has potential as a biomass crop but the development of varieties
that are consistently superior to the natural hybrid M.× giganteus has been challenging …

Population structure of Miscanthus sacchariflorus reveals two major polyploidization events, tetraploid-mediated unidirectional introgression from diploid M. sinensis …

LV Clark, X Jin, KK Petersen, KG Anzoua… - Annals of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background and Aims Miscanthus, a C4 perennial grass native to East Asia, is a
promising biomass crop. Miscanthus sacchariflorus has a broad geographic range, is used …

A novel high-density grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.) integrated linkage map using GBS in a half-diallel population

J Tello, C Roux, H Chouiki, V Laucou, G Sarah… - Theoretical and Applied …, 2019 - Springer
Key message A half-diallel population involving five elite grapevine cultivars was generated
and genotyped by GBS, and highly-informative segregation data was used to construct a …

Evaluation of genomic selection and marker-assisted selection in Miscanthus and energycane

MO Olatoye, LV Clark, J Wang, X Yang, T Yamada… - Molecular …, 2019 - Springer
Although energycane (Saccharum spp. hybrids) is widely used as a source of lignocellulosic
biomass for bioethanol, breeding this crop for disease resistance is challenging due to its …

Genome‐wide association and genomic prediction for yield and component traits of Miscanthus sacchariflorus

JN Njuguna, LV Clark, AE Lipka, KG Anzoua… - GCB …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Accelerating biomass improvement is a major goal of Miscanthus breeding. The
development and implementation of genomic‐enabled breeding tools, like marker‐assisted …

Winter hardiness of Miscanthus (I): Overwintering ability and yield of new Miscanthus ×giganteus genotypes in Illinois and Arkansas

H Dong, SV Green, A Nishiwaki, T Yamada… - GCB …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Miscanthus× giganteus (M× g) is an important bioenergy feedstock crop. However, biomass
production of Miscanthus has been largely limited to one sterile triploid cultivar, M× g '1993 …