Leveraging mutational burden for complex trait prediction in sorghum
Ravi Valluru, Élodie Gazave, Samuel B. Fernandes, John N. Ferguson, Roberto Daniel Lozano, Pradeepa Hirannaiah, Tao Zuo, Patrick J. Brown, Andrew D. B. Leakey, Michael A. Gore, Edward S. Buckler, Nonoy B. Bandillo
This study estimates deleterious mutation burden in sorghum and assesses its impact on agronomic traits, finding moderate genetic variance explanation but limited improvement in breeding accuracy due to linkage.
bioRxiv · Jun 27, 2018 · PreprintGenetics