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Introduction
Principles of inheritance
Genotypic variation
Other forms of heritable variation
Quantitative variation and heritability
Novel sources of genetic variation
The practice of plant breeding
Breeding methods
Plant Breeders' rights
New technologies for plant breeding
Phenotyping technologies
Phenotyping technologies: aerial photography
Aerial photography: example
Transgenics
Marker-Assisted Breeding (MAB)
DNA sequencing
Next generation sequencing
Genotyping by reduced representation
Genomic selection
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS)
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Next generation sequencing

New sequencing technologies have advanced such that billions of base pairs of sequence can be generated in a day at decreasing costs.

For breeders, having whole sequence in hand rather than sets of isolated markers will greatly speed up the breeding process by making diversity assessment more accurate and allowing for selection without the necessity of making a genetic map.

With so much sequencing information being created so quickly, the bottleneck now is the data analysis.