FIGURE 8.

Pathfinder: A conceptual framework for how the CSIRO cotton breeding program aims to meet the challenges of the 21st Century. The traditional breeding operations of (1) Parent selection; (2) Crossing; (3) Evaluation and selection; (4) Cultivar release (all highlighted in green) form the foundation of the program. The CSIRO cotton breeding program will augment this traditional breeding process through the deployment of the new breeding technologies of genomic selection, genetically modified traits, and gene editing (highlighted in blue). Complex datasets encompassing genomics (including omics-guided genomic selection, OGGS, and gene-based breeding, GBB), season-long quantification of the plant (i.e., phenomics, including computer vision and machine learning, CV/ML, based phenomics, and panomics) and its environment will be integrated into genomic selection using algorithmic approaches.