Journal
GENES
Volume 10, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/genes10110841
Keywords
Sorghum bicolor; Sorghum halepense; genomic prediction; genomic selection; antioxidants; genomic estimated breeding values; prediction accuracy
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- European Union [732064]
- Ministero delle Politiche Agricole, Alimentari, Forestali e del Turismo (Rome, Italy) through the project Risorse GeneticheVegetali (RGV/FAO) 2014 - 2016
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The purpose of this work was to assess the performance of four genomic selection (GS) models (GBLUP, BRR, Bayesian LASSO and BayesB) in 4 sorghum grain antioxidant traits (phenols, flavonoids, total antioxidant capacity and condensed tannins) using whole-genome SNP markers in a novel diversity panel of Sorghum bicolor lines and landraces and S. bicolor x S. halepense recombinant inbred lines. One key breeding problem modelled was predicting the performance in the antioxidant production of new and unphenotyped sorghum genotypes (validation set). The population was weakly structured (analysis of molecular variance, AMOVA R-2 = 9%), showed a significant genetic diversity and expressed antioxidant traits with a good level of variability and high correlation. The S. bicolor x S. halepense lines outperformed Sorghum bicolor populations for all the antioxidants. The four GS models implemented in this work performed comparably across traits, with accuracy ranging from 0.49 to 0.58, and are considered high enough to sustain sorghum breeding for antioxidants production and allow important genetic gains per unit of time and cost. The results presented in this work are expected to contribute to GS implementation and the genetic improvement of sorghum grain antioxidants for different purposes, including the manufacture of health-promoting and specialty foods.
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