Challenges and Opportunities in Applying Genomic Selection to Ruminants Owned by Smallholder Farmers

Genomic selection has transformed animal and plant breeding in advanced economies globally, resulting in economic, social and environmental benefits worth billions of dollars annually. Although genomic selection offers great potential in low- to middle-income countries because detailed pedigrees are...

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Autores principales:	Heather M. Burrow, Raphael Mrode, Ally Okeyo Mwai, Mike P. Coffey, Ben J. Hayes
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Materias:	genomic selection smallholder farmers beef and dairy cattle sheep and goats phenotypes reference populations Agriculture (General) S1-972
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:fc8da3cf48424c4d80c77ab265517e832021-11-25T16:01:58ZChallenges and Opportunities in Applying Genomic Selection to Ruminants Owned by Smallholder Farmers10.3390/agriculture111111722077-0472https://doaj.org/article/fc8da3cf48424c4d80c77ab265517e832021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.mdpi.com/2077-0472/11/11/1172https://doaj.org/toc/2077-0472Genomic selection has transformed animal and plant breeding in advanced economies globally, resulting in economic, social and environmental benefits worth billions of dollars annually. Although genomic selection offers great potential in low- to middle-income countries because detailed pedigrees are not required to estimate breeding values with useful accuracy, the difficulty of effective phenotype recording, complex funding arrangements for a limited number of essential reference populations in only a handful of countries, questions around the sustainability of those livestock-resource populations, lack of on-farm, laboratory and computing infrastructure and lack of human capacity remain barriers to implementation. This paper examines those challenges and explores opportunities to mitigate or reduce the problems, with the aim of enabling smallholder livestock-keepers and their associated value chains in low- to middle-income countries to also benefit directly from genomic selection.Heather M. BurrowRaphael MrodeAlly Okeyo MwaiMike P. CoffeyBen J. HayesMDPI AGarticlegenomic selectionsmallholder farmersbeef and dairy cattlesheep and goatsphenotypesreference populationsAgriculture (General)S1-972ENAgriculture, Vol 11, Iss 1172, p 1172 (2021)
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spellingShingle	genomic selection smallholder farmers beef and dairy cattle sheep and goats phenotypes reference populations Agriculture (General) S1-972 Heather M. Burrow Raphael Mrode Ally Okeyo Mwai Mike P. Coffey Ben J. Hayes Challenges and Opportunities in Applying Genomic Selection to Ruminants Owned by Smallholder Farmers
description	Genomic selection has transformed animal and plant breeding in advanced economies globally, resulting in economic, social and environmental benefits worth billions of dollars annually. Although genomic selection offers great potential in low- to middle-income countries because detailed pedigrees are not required to estimate breeding values with useful accuracy, the difficulty of effective phenotype recording, complex funding arrangements for a limited number of essential reference populations in only a handful of countries, questions around the sustainability of those livestock-resource populations, lack of on-farm, laboratory and computing infrastructure and lack of human capacity remain barriers to implementation. This paper examines those challenges and explores opportunities to mitigate or reduce the problems, with the aim of enabling smallholder livestock-keepers and their associated value chains in low- to middle-income countries to also benefit directly from genomic selection.
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author	Heather M. Burrow Raphael Mrode Ally Okeyo Mwai Mike P. Coffey Ben J. Hayes
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title	Challenges and Opportunities in Applying Genomic Selection to Ruminants Owned by Smallholder Farmers
title_short	Challenges and Opportunities in Applying Genomic Selection to Ruminants Owned by Smallholder Farmers
title_full	Challenges and Opportunities in Applying Genomic Selection to Ruminants Owned by Smallholder Farmers
title_fullStr	Challenges and Opportunities in Applying Genomic Selection to Ruminants Owned by Smallholder Farmers
title_full_unstemmed	Challenges and Opportunities in Applying Genomic Selection to Ruminants Owned by Smallholder Farmers
title_sort	challenges and opportunities in applying genomic selection to ruminants owned by smallholder farmers
publisher	MDPI AG
publishDate	2021
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Challenges and Opportunities in Applying Genomic Selection to Ruminants Owned by Smallholder Farmers

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