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Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2013 07:33:36 +0100
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I am Pushpendra Gupta again (I sent message 1). I like this message 10 by Uche Godfrey Okeke, and would like to submit as follows:

(1) I am also disappointed with the number of messages received (hardly 2 messages per day); what is the reason for this? I believe that not many people have read enough and therefore know enough about the role of genomic selection in crop improvement and never tried to practise it in developing countries including India, not because they don't approve of it, but because they cannot appreciate the technology yet (although the technology still suffers with difficulties of telling us which is the best prediction model; prediction models are still being suggested and it will take time to develop the best model).

(2) I also agree that most leaders, governments, and those in authority in India (like other developing countries) do not really understand the enormous potential and benefits of genomics selection and genotyping by sequencing (GBS). This is why a workshop on the use of genomics selection for wheat improvement is being organized in France in Spring/Summer of 2013. I would have personally liked such workshops on "genomics selection and other statistical genomics tools" organised in developing countries like India on a regular basis.

(3) In my message 1, I questioned a direct role of genomics for crop improvement; but genomics selection is perhaps one area, which needs to be tried and has a promise. Genomics-based genotyping and GBS for marker assisted selection and marker development could be other areas that will grow and need attention, due to the development of next generation sequencing (NGS) methods associated with dramatic reduction in the cost of sequencing.

(4) I also liked the idea of 'selection induced genetic variation' (SIGV), which is new and needs further elaboration, for those who are new to the idea of genomic selection. It is not clear how genetic variation can be introduced via epistasis and recombination; will it be recurrent selection involving cycles of selection and intermating? Uche Godfrey Okeke or somebody else may like to throw further light on this.

Professor PK Gupta
Hon. Emeritus Professor & NASI Senior Scientist
Meerut University, Meerut
India
Residence: F-119, Shastri Nagar, Meerut 250004
Telephone: 121-2762505 (R); 121-2768195 (Office); 9411619105 (M)
Web: http://molbiolabccsumrt.webs.com/founder.htm

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