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URN: urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-45132
URL: http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2010/4513/

Gärtner, Tanja ; Steinfath, Matthias ; Andorf, Sandra ; Lisec, Jan ; Meyer, Rhonda C. ; Altmann, Thomas ; Willmitzer, Lothar ; Selbig, Joachim

Improved heterosis prediction by combining information on DNA- and metabolic markers

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Background:
Hybrids represent a cornerstone in the success story of breeding programs. The fundamental principle underlying this success is the phenomenon of hybrid vigour, or heterosis. It describes an advantage of the offspring as compared to the two parental lines with respect to parameters such as growth and resistance against abiotic or biotic stress. Dominance, overdominance or epistasis based models are commonly used explanations.

Conclusion/Significance:
The heterosis level is clearly a function of the combination of the parents used for offspring production. This results in a major challenge for plant breeders, as usually several thousand combinations of parents have to be tested for identifying the best combinations. Thus, any approach to reliably predict heterosis levels based on properties of the parental lines would be highly beneficial for plant breeding.

Methodology/Principal Findings:
Recently, genetic data have been used to predict heterosis. Here we show that a combination of parental genetic and metabolic markers, identified via feature selection and minimum-description-length based regression methods, significantly improves the prediction of biomass heterosis in resulting offspring. These findings will help furthering our understanding of the molecular basis of heterosis, revealing, for instance, the presence of nonlinear genotype-phenotype relationships. In addition, we describe a possible approach for accelerated selection in plant breeding.

Institut: Institut für Biochemie und Biologie

DDC-Sachgruppe: Biowissenschaften, Biologie

Dokumentart: c Postprint

Schriftenreihe: Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe, ISSN 1866-8372

Bandnummer: paper 142

Quelle: PLoS one 4 (2009), 4, Art. e5220, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0005220

Sprache: Englisch

Erstellungsjahr: 2009

Publikationsdatum: 19.07.2010

Bemerkung:
The article was originally published by PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE:
PLoS one. - 4 (2009), 4, Art. e5220 (12 S.)
ISSN 1932-6203
DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0005220

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