Diversity Arrays Technology (DArT) provides a robust, high throughput, cost-effective method to query thousands of sequence polymorphisms in a single assay. Despite the extensive use of this genotyping platform for numerous plant species, little is known regarding the sequence attributes and genome-wide distribution of DArT markers
Genomic selection (GS) or genome-wide selection (GWS) was a landmark proposal made 11 yr ago providing a genome-wide paradigm for marker-assisted selection (MAS) in plants and animals (Meuwissen et al., 2001; Goddard & Hayes, 2009)