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Application Of Genomics To Forage CROP Breeding For Quality Traits

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Forage quality depends on the digestibility of fodder, and can be directly measured by the intake and metabolic conversion in animal trials. However, animal trials are time-consuming, laborious, and thus expensive. It is not possible to study thousands of plant genotypes, as required in breeding programs. Therefore, several indirect methods including near-infrared reflectance spectroscopy (NIRS) have been established to overcome this limitation. However, the ideal indirect system for the prediction of forage performance would be based on gene-derived “functional” DNA markers, allowing early selection ultimately without need of field trials, and being environment independent. In addition, once identified relevant genes controlling forage quality are targets for transgenic approaches. Substantial progress has recently been achieved in the development and application of genomic tools both in model species and major forage crops such as ryegrass and alfalfa. Key genes involved in developmental and biochemical pathways affecting forage quality such as cell-wall, lignin, fructan, and tannin biosynthesis have been isolated and characterized. For some of these genes, allelic variation has been studied in detail and sequence motifs with likely effect on forage quality have been identified by association studies. Moreover, transgenic approaches substantiated the effect of several of these genes on forage quality. Perspectives and limitations of these findings for forage crop breeding are discussed given expected further progress in forage crop genomics, but also the complexity of the trait complex forage quality, since typically species mixtures of heterogeneous and heterozygous genotypes are grown in the field.

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Lübberstedt, T. (2007). Application Of Genomics To Forage CROP Breeding For Quality Traits. In: Varshney, R.K., Tuberosa, R. (eds) Genomics-Assisted Crop Improvement. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6297-1_12

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