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PFS0166

Plant Quantitative Genetics

The purpose of this course is to familiarise participants with basic and advanced quantitative genetics and provide mature theory training and the latest analytical approaches for quantitative traits. Lectures will give insight into how similarity among relatives can be used to derive quantitative genetics parameters. The infinitesimal model of multiple gene effects be used to develop selection theory and breeding value prediction methodology. How genes effect and mating strategy affect long-term breeding outcomes. Using modern genomics, how QTL can be identified and their effects estimated. This will give students a solid foundation in future breeding program design and using genomics in advanced breeding program.

It covers from basic quantitative genetics to advanced topics of quantitative genetics including covariance between relatives, breeding value prediction, G by E interaction, QTL mapping, short-term and long-term selection, multivariate mixed linear model, inbreeding and heterosis and index selection

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