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- Title
Genome optimization for improvement of maize breeding.
- Authors
Jiang, Shuqin; Cheng, Qian; Yan, Jun; Fu, Ran; Wang, Xiangfeng
- Abstract
Key message: We propose a new model to improve maize breeding that incorporates doubled haploid production, genomic selection, and genome optimization. Breeding 4.0 has been considered the next era of plant breeding. It is clear that the Breeding 4.0 era for maize will feature the integration of multi-disciplinary technologies including genomics and phenomics, gene editing and synthetic biology, and Big Data and artificial intelligence. The breeding approach of passively selecting ideal genotypes from designated genetic pools must soon evolve to virtual design of optimized genomes by pyramiding superior alleles using computational simulation. An optimized genome expressing optimal phenotypes, which may never actually be created, can function as a blueprint for breeding programs to use minimal materials and hybridizations to achieve maximum genetic gain. We propose a new breeding pipeline, "genomic design breeding," that incorporates doubled haploid production, genomic selection, and genome optimization and is facilitated by different scales of trait predictions and decision-making models. Successful implementation of the proposed model will facilitate the evolution of maize breeding from "art" to "science" and eventually to "intelligence," in the Breeding 4.0 era.
- Subjects
CORN breeding; PLANT breeding; GENOMES; GENETIC techniques; VIRTUAL design; GENOME editing; SYNTHETIC biology
- Publication
Theoretical & Applied Genetics, 2020, Vol 133, Issue 5, p1491
- ISSN
0040-5752
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00122-019-03493-z