Hastat: mining favorable haplotypes of trait-associated genes for breeding improvement in natural populations

Acknowledgements

We appreciate the valuable and constructive suggestions provided by hastat users and our colleagues. This work was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (2022YFD1200400), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (32272111), Special fund for youth team of the Southwest Universities (SWU-XJPY202306), Chongqing Natural Science Foundation (CSTB2024NSCQ-LZX0012), Biological Breeding-National Science and Technology Major Project (2022ZD04008), Beibei Science and Technology Bureau (cykjhz2024-27), Modern Agro-industry Technology Research System (CARS-12), Chongqing Modern Agricultural Industry Technology System (CQMAITS202504), and National College Students’ Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program Project (202410635082).

Author contributions

K.L. supervised the project. X.L. completed all software development and analysis. Y.W., B.M., Z.Q., and M.Z. participated in software testing and provided suggestions for revisions. X.L. wrote the manuscript. K.L. and J.S. revised the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

Data availability

Supplementary data for this article can be found online at https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.30963401.

Conflicts of interest statement

The authors declare no competing interests.

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