Sustainable disease resistance breeding in wheat by use of knowledge-driven genomic prediction models
Abstract
Genomic Selection (GS) has become a promising tool for enhancing gain by selection in plant and animal breeding. Still unsolved challenges remain, particularly to deal with disease resistance traits that are simultaneously governed by large effect, often epistatic genes and small effect, additive genes. Standard GS handles additive effects well, but has difficulties with epistatic gene effects. That is the core idea behind this project. By taking wheat as a case, we will apply our concept of intelligent genomic selection to two of the most devastating plant diseases affecting European wheat production - FHB and stripe rust. An interdisciplinary research environment will be sought by combining world-leading expertise in statistical modeling with leading groups in plant genomics and plant pathology and active collaboration with plant breeding companies. The project will as well provide training of postdocs and PhD students.
Genomic Selection Disease Resistance Wheat Fusarium Puccinia
Publikationen
Project staff
Hermann Bürstmayr
Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.nat.techn. Hermann Bürstmayr
hermann.buerstmayr@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-97101, 97102
Project Leader
01.11.2019 - 30.06.2023
Sebastian Michel
Dr. Sebastian Michel MSc.
sebastian.michel@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-97105
Project Staff
01.11.2019 - 30.06.2023
Barbara Steiner
Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Barbara Steiner
barbara.steiner@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-97105
Project Staff
01.11.2019 - 30.06.2023
BOKU partners
External partners
University College Dublin
Dr. Julio Isidro Sánchez
partner
Saatzucht Josef Breun GdbR
Dr. Ludwig Ramgraber
partner
Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Dr. Morten Lillemo
coordinator
Bayerische Landesanstalt für Landwirtschaft LfL
Dr. Lorenz Hartl
partner
Saatzucht Donau GmbH & Co KG
Dr. Franziska Löschenberger
partner
Graminor AS
Dr Muath Alsheikh
partner
SECOBRA Saatzucht GmbH
Dr Josef Holzapfel
partner
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Dr Curt McCartney
partner
StatGen Consulting
Dr Deniz Akdemir
partner
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)
Dr Jose Crossa
partner