Plant Genomics

Biography

Biography: Vinay Bhardwaj

Abstract

Novel breeding approaches are required to aid accelerate the rate of genetic gain to encounter the growing demand of food and spice crops in the face of less favorable and increasingly unpredictable environments. Genomic selection using whole-genome markers for breeding value predictions is an approach that can accelerate genetic gain through decreasing the breeding cycle time and increasing the selection intensity through larger populations. The integration of Eco physiological modeling and genomic prediction has the potential to enable more robust selection for a range of environments. Developing such approaches and making physiological measurements across the breadth of breeding programs will necessitate innovation and deployment of high-throughput phenotyping systems that can capture the temporal and spatial resolution needed to screen large sets of germplasm and build model parameters to integrate with genomic prediction.