The genus Citrus contains a wide variety of fruit-producing species such as oranges, lemons, limes and mandarins that are highly popular in the world. Brazil is one of the main citrus producers, currently leading the world ...

In Uruguay, reforestation with Eucalyptus sp. is of fundamental importance to produce paper, pulp and wood. The productivity of these continually grows due to application of breeding techniques, such as hybridization. This ...

Commercial panels containing thousands of SNPs revolutionized genetic studies in livestock, especially with the genome-wide association study and genomic selection. The genomic selection is also directly applied to breeding ...

In the genomic selection, the main objective of studies is to estimate the ability or accuracy of genomic prediction. The accuracy of genomic prediction can be influence for the following factors: heritability of the trait, ...

The Brazil Nut (Bertholletia excelsa) is an arboreal species, native to the Amazon forest, by which there’s a concern referring to its ecological sustainability. Therefore, sequencing and assembling the genome might ...

The black lion tamarin (Leontopithecus chrysopygus) is one of the most endangered neotropical primates and the historical causes that led them to the brink of extinction are closely related to the history of the Atlantic ...