GeneticsPLoS ONEPeer-reviewed
Plant breeders should be determining economic weights for a selection index instead of using independent culling for choosing parents in breeding programs with genomic selection
Lorena Guimarães Batista, Robert Chris Gaynor, Gabriel Rodrigues Alves Margarido…·John M. Hickey
The paper compares index selection and independent culling in genomic selection for multi-trait breeding programs, showing index selection is more efficient when economic weights are known.
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