Population improvement via recurrent selection drives genetic gain in upland rice breeding

One of the main challenges of breeding programs is to identify superior genotypes from a large number of candidates. By gradually increasing the frequency of favorable alleles in the breeding population, recurrent selection improves the population mean for target traits, increasing the chance to ide...

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Autores principales: Pereira de Castro, Adriano, Breseghello, Flávio, Volpi Furtini, Isabela, Utumi, Marley Marico, Pereira, José Almeida, Cao, Tuong-Vi, Bartholomé, Jérôme
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Publicado: Springer 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/132654
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author Pereira de Castro, Adriano
Breseghello, Flávio
Volpi Furtini, Isabela
Utumi, Marley Marico
Pereira, José Almeida
Cao, Tuong-Vi
Bartholomé, Jérôme
author_browse Bartholomé, Jérôme
Breseghello, Flávio
Cao, Tuong-Vi
Pereira de Castro, Adriano
Pereira, José Almeida
Utumi, Marley Marico
Volpi Furtini, Isabela
author_facet Pereira de Castro, Adriano
Breseghello, Flávio
Volpi Furtini, Isabela
Utumi, Marley Marico
Pereira, José Almeida
Cao, Tuong-Vi
Bartholomé, Jérôme
author_sort Pereira de Castro, Adriano
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description One of the main challenges of breeding programs is to identify superior genotypes from a large number of candidates. By gradually increasing the frequency of favorable alleles in the breeding population, recurrent selection improves the population mean for target traits, increasing the chance to identify promising genotypes. In rice, population improvement through recurrent selection has been used very little to date, except in Latin America. At Embrapa (Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation), the upland rice breeding program is conducted in two phases: population improvement followed by product development. In this study, the CNA6 population, evaluated over five cycles (3 to 7) of selection, including 20 field trials, was used to assess the realized genetic gain. A high rate of genetic gain was observed for grain yield, at 215 kg.ha-1 per cycle or 67.8 kg.ha-1 per year (3.08%). The CNA6 population outperformed the controls only for the last cycle, with a yield difference of 1128 kg.ha-1. An analysis of the product development pipeline, based on 29 advanced yield trials with lines derived from cycles 3 to 6, showed that lines derived from the CNA6 population had high grain yield, but did not outperform the controls. These results demonstrate that the application of recurrent selection to a breeding population with sufficient genetic variability can result in significant genetic gains for quantitative traits, such as grain yield. The integration of this strategy into a two-phase breeding program also makes it possible to increase quantitative traits while selecting for other traits of interest.
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spelling CGSpace1326542025-11-11T17:44:26Z Population improvement via recurrent selection drives genetic gain in upland rice breeding Pereira de Castro, Adriano Breseghello, Flávio Volpi Furtini, Isabela Utumi, Marley Marico Pereira, José Almeida Cao, Tuong-Vi Bartholomé, Jérôme genotypes plant breeding genetics selection phenotypes oryza One of the main challenges of breeding programs is to identify superior genotypes from a large number of candidates. By gradually increasing the frequency of favorable alleles in the breeding population, recurrent selection improves the population mean for target traits, increasing the chance to identify promising genotypes. In rice, population improvement through recurrent selection has been used very little to date, except in Latin America. At Embrapa (Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation), the upland rice breeding program is conducted in two phases: population improvement followed by product development. In this study, the CNA6 population, evaluated over five cycles (3 to 7) of selection, including 20 field trials, was used to assess the realized genetic gain. A high rate of genetic gain was observed for grain yield, at 215 kg.ha-1 per cycle or 67.8 kg.ha-1 per year (3.08%). The CNA6 population outperformed the controls only for the last cycle, with a yield difference of 1128 kg.ha-1. An analysis of the product development pipeline, based on 29 advanced yield trials with lines derived from cycles 3 to 6, showed that lines derived from the CNA6 population had high grain yield, but did not outperform the controls. These results demonstrate that the application of recurrent selection to a breeding population with sufficient genetic variability can result in significant genetic gains for quantitative traits, such as grain yield. The integration of this strategy into a two-phase breeding program also makes it possible to increase quantitative traits while selecting for other traits of interest. 2023-09 2023-11-02T07:26:29Z 2023-11-02T07:26:29Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/132654 en Open Access application/pdf Springer Pereira de Castro, A.; Breseghello, F.; Volpi Furtini, I.; Utumi, M.M.; Pereira, J.A.; Cao, T.; Bartholomé, J. (2023) Population improvement via recurrent selection drives genetic gain in upland rice breeding. Heredity 131(3): p. 201-210. ISSN: 0018-067X
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plant breeding
genetics
selection
phenotypes
oryza
Pereira de Castro, Adriano
Breseghello, Flávio
Volpi Furtini, Isabela
Utumi, Marley Marico
Pereira, José Almeida
Cao, Tuong-Vi
Bartholomé, Jérôme
Population improvement via recurrent selection drives genetic gain in upland rice breeding
title Population improvement via recurrent selection drives genetic gain in upland rice breeding
title_full Population improvement via recurrent selection drives genetic gain in upland rice breeding
title_fullStr Population improvement via recurrent selection drives genetic gain in upland rice breeding
title_full_unstemmed Population improvement via recurrent selection drives genetic gain in upland rice breeding
title_short Population improvement via recurrent selection drives genetic gain in upland rice breeding
title_sort population improvement via recurrent selection drives genetic gain in upland rice breeding
topic genotypes
plant breeding
genetics
selection
phenotypes
oryza
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/132654
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