TY  - JOUR
N2  - Crop populations derived from experimental crosses enable the genetic dissection of complex traits and support modern plant
breeding. Among these, multi-parent populations now play a central role. By mixing and recombining the genomes of multiple
founders, multi-parent populations combine many commonly sought beneficial properties of genetic mapping populations. For
example, they have high power and resolution for mapping quantitative trait loci, high genetic diversity and minimal population
structure. Many multi-parent populations have been constructed in crop species, and their inbred germplasm and associated phenotypic
and genotypic data serve as enduring resources. Their utility has grown from being a tool for mapping quantitative trait loci to a means
of providing germplasm for breeding programmes. Genomics approaches, including de novo genome assemblies and gene
annotations for the population founders, have allowed the imputation of rich sequence information into the descendent population,
expanding the breadth of research and breeding applications of multi-parent populations. Here, we report recent successes from crop
multi-parent populations in crops. We also propose an ideal genotypic, phenotypic and germplasm ?package? that multi-parent
populations should feature to optimise their use as powerful community resources for crop research, development and breeding.
N1  - We would like to thank all attendees of the
workshop on Advances in Multi-Parent Populations Research, who
contributed to the discussions that inspired this manuscript: John
Baison, Chellapilla Bharadwaj, Martin Boer, Rowena Downie, Gina
Garzon, Luciano Henrique Braz dos Santos, Wenhao Li, Swarmy
Mallikarjuna, Maria Oszvald, Renata Pereira da Cruz, Rajiv Sharma,
Narendra Pratap Singh, Shang Qian Xie, Chin Jian Yang. We particularly
thank Karl Broman for helpful feedback.
AV  - public
KW  - Genetics
KW  -  Genomics
KW  -  Breeding
A1  - Scott, M F
A1  - Ladejobi, O
A1  - Amer, S
A1  - Bentley, A R
A1  - Biernaskie, J
A1  - Boden, S A
A1  - Clark, M
A1  - Dell?Acqua, M
A1  - Dixon, L E
A1  - Filippi, C V
A1  - Fradgley, N
A1  - Gardner, K A
A1  - Mackay, I J
A1  - O?Sullivan, D
A1  - Percival-Alwyn, L
A1  - Roorkiwal, M
A1  - Singh, R K
A1  - Thudi, M
A1  - Varshney, R K
A1  - Venturini, L
A1  - Whan, A
A1  - Cockram, J
A1  - Mott, R
TI  - Multi-parent populations in crops: a toolbox integrating genomics and genetic mapping with breeding
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1038/s41437-020-0336-6
JF  - Heredity (TSI)
Y1  - 2020/07//
ID  - icrisat11544
SN  - 0018-067X
PB  - Springer Nature, Genetics Society
ER  -