Oct 17, 2025
“Genomic Selection: Essence, Applications, and Prospects” with Dr. Jianming Yu
Genomic Selection is a plant breeding innovation that aims to speed plant breeding by using predictions from a training model enabled by genomics and statistics to guide the breeding decisions. With around thirty years of history around this innovation, it was about time to develop a review on it. Enter Dr. Jianming Yu and his team of coauthors. This episode, we skate the surface of a topic that could go down for miles, covering key areas of genomic selection, what it is, how to use it, and where we can aim to go in the future.
Tune in to learn:
· How genomic selection was developed
· Why genomic selection should be seen as an innovation in rather than alternative to plant breeding
· Why growing out crosses still matters
· How AI could be integrated to further genomic selection
If you would like more information about this topic, this episode’s paper is available here: https://doi.org/10.1002/tpg2.70053
This paper is always freely available.
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If you would like to reach out to Jianming,
you can find him here:
jmyu@iastate.edu
https://www.agron.iastate.edu/people/yu-jianming/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jianming-yu-92b6617b/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/iowa-state-university-raymond-f-baker-center-for-plant-breeding/
Resources
Transcripts: https://www.rev.com/app/captions/NjhlZmI3ODYwMWFmOTFkYzdlYWRiMjhhM29MVTM2MVduOEFD/o/Q1AwNDYyNDc5Mzkz
CSA News article: https://www.sciencesocieties.org/publications/csa-news/2025/november/essence-of-genomic-selection
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