title: The crop QTLome comes of age.
abstract: Recent progress in genomics and phenomics allows for a more accurate and comprehensive characterization of the Quantitative Trait Loci (QTLs)—hereafter defined 'QTLome' as a whole—that govern the variation targeted in breeding programs. High-density genotyping now provides unambiguous identification of QTL alleles, and for several traits beneficial alleles at major QTLs have already been deployed in marker-assisted breeding. However, the amount of QTLome information is enormous and approaches to distill and translate this information to breeders remain to be refined. Improved QTL meta-analyses, better estimation of QTL effects, improved crop modelling and full sharing of raw QTL data will enable a more effective exploitation of the QTLome.
authors.affiliation: Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Bologna, Viale Fanin 44, 40127 Bologna, Italy. Electronic address: silvio.salvi@unibo.it.
authors.forename: Silvio
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Salvi
authors.affiliation: Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Bologna, Viale Fanin 44, 40127 Bologna, Italy.
authors.forename: Roberto
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Tuberosa
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001947:Breeding; D018556:Crops, Agricultural / Q000235:genetics*; D018745:Genome, Plant; D023281:Genomics; D005838:Genotype; D006801:Humans; D040641:Quantitative Trait Loci