QuLinePlus: extending plant breeding strategy and genetic model simulation to cross-pollinated populations-case studies in forage breeding.

ABSTRACT: Plant breeders are supported by a range of tools that assist them to make decisions about the conduct or design of plant breeding programs. Simulations are a strategic tool that enables the breeder to integrate the multiple components of a breeding program into a number of proposed scenarios that are compared by a range of statistics measuring the efficiency of the proposed systems. A simulation study for the trait growth score compared two major strategies for breeding forage species, among half-sib family selection and among and within half-sib family selection. These scenarios highlighted new features of the QuLine program, now called QuLinePlus, incorporated to enable the software platform to be used to simulate breeding programs for cross-pollinated species. Each strategy was compared

SUBMITTER: Hoyos-Villegas V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6461948 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature