[Statlist] *Research seminar in statistics* Université de Genève / Faculté SES

[Eva Cantoni]

RESEARCH SEMINAR IN STATISTICS

Organisers : .
E. Cantoni - E. Ronchetti - S. Sperlich - M-P. Victoria-Feser

Friday December 13th, 2013
at 11h15
Room M 5220, Uni Mail (40, bd du Pont-d'Arve)

Fred van Eeuwijk
(Wageningen University, The Nederlands)

TITLE:
Statistical genetics and genomics in plant breeding

ABSTRACT:
The central objective in plant breeding is to improve the genetic basis 
of commercial crop species to comply with changing demands on yield and 
quality. Statistics plays a key role in modern plant breeding. A 
classical quantitative genetic model writes the phenotype as an outcome 
of genetic, environmental and genotype by environment interaction 
effects. In the genomic era, this classical model has been extended and 
generalized. Linear mixed models played an important role in classical 
quantitative genetics and still do so in modern genetics, but Bayesian 
methods and penalized regressions have become an essential part of the 
plant breeders’ tool box as well. In my presentation, I will discuss the 
central statistical questions in plant genetics and I will give an 
overview of statistical methodology currently used, with an emphasis on 
mixed models.

Webiste: http://www.stat-center.unige.ch/ResSem.html


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Prof. Eva Cantoni
Research Center for Statistics and Department of Economics
University of Geneva, Bd du Pont d'Arve 40, CH-1211 Genève 4
http://www.unige.ch/ses/dsec/staff/faculty/Cantoni-Eva.html