Opportunities and Challenges of Predictive Approaches for Harnessing the Potential of Genetic Resources.

For the identification of germplasm bank accessions providing beneficial alleles for quantitative traits, we see the accession passport data as central information. In the case of a simple genetic architecture such as an identified major effect gene, the novel allele can be introgressed by marker assisted backcrossing (MABC) or can be approached by gene editing. Keywords: genetic resources; germplasm bank collections; predictive breeding; genomic selection; pre-breeding EN genetic resources germplasm bank collections predictive breeding genomic selection pre-breeding 1 4 4 07/05/21 20210701 NES 210701 Introduction Favorable variation from genetic resources is anticipated to play a key role in the adaptation of crops to the increasingly unfavorable production conditions resulting from climate change (FAO, [3]). Second, predictions can accelerate the pre-breeding (or "germplasm enhancement") process by helping to target the desired alleles for transfer to an elite germplasm background, saving resources and time. [Extracted from the article]