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Reciprocal Full-sib Recurrent Selection and Tools for Accelerating Genetic Gain in Apomictic Brachiaria

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Molecular Breeding of Forage and Turf

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The International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) forage-breeding program utilizes recurrent selection on specific combining ability (RS-SCA) with a non-inbred tester in a synthetic, fully sexual breeding population to develop improved apomictic Brachiaria (Trin.) Griseb cultivars. This breeding scheme was designed to accumulate nonadditive, heterotic effects over cycles of selection and recombination. Various approaches for accelerating genetic gain in the context of recurrent selection for improved apomictic forage grasses are being considered as the breeding program enters the fourth cycle of RS-SCA. The identification of a molecular marker linked to the genetic factor controlling apomictic reproductive mode makes feasible the alternate breeding methods including reciprocal full-sib recurrent selection (RFRS) in two complementary populations, both segregating for apomixis. The establishment of complementary populations based on natural heterotic patterns enhanced through RS-SCA is an important prerequisite for the initiation of RFRS in Brachiaria. The RFRS scheme proposed in this chapter should result in accelerated genetic gains compared to RS-SCA and facilitate the implementation of additional forms of marker assisted selection (MAS) in Brachiaria and other apomictic grasses when well-saturated molecular maps become available.

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Worthington, M., Miles, J. (2015). Reciprocal Full-sib Recurrent Selection and Tools for Accelerating Genetic Gain in Apomictic Brachiaria . In: Budak, H., Spangenberg, G. (eds) Molecular Breeding of Forage and Turf. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08714-6_3

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