ABOUT THIS EPISODE
"Within-family genomic selection in strawberry: optimization of marker density, trial design, and training set composition" with Dr. Joshua Sleper
If plant breeding were a poker game, you'd have to play a lot of hands to beat the house. Quantitative genetics hopes to give players an advantage by recognizing patterns that can point to future success. In strawberry, a genetically complex and labor-intensive plant, this is particularly important. This episode, Joshua join me to discuss his work using quantitative genetics to help give strawberry breeders a hand.
Tune in to learn:
· How some plants have "sticky cards" in their genetics
· What challenges strawberry breeders face
· How many clones are really enough
· What lies on the horizon for strawberry breeding
If you would like more information about this topic, this episode's paper is available here: https://doi.org/10.1002/tpg2.20550
This paper is always freely available.
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If you would like to reach out to Joshua, you can find him here: j.sleper@ufl.edu
Resources
Transcripts: https://www.rev.com/app/captions/Njk0NTVlNWFiMDVjNzQyMjA1Y2UzZGVmM3VIdF9Va0FSbGhF/o/Q1AwNjIzNzcwNTI2
Rex Bernardo's Essentials of Plant Breeding: https://www.abebooks.com/9780972072427/Essentials-Plant-Breeding-Rex-Bernardo-097207242X/plp
A Quarter Century of Genomewide Prediction - Dr. Rex Bernardo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K45M4N9mJBM&t=8s
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