Multi-Year Dynamics of Single-Step Genomic Prediction in an Applied Wheat Breeding Program
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Plant Material
2.2. Statistical Analysis of the Phenotypic Data
2.3. Pedigree and Genotypic Data
2.4. Comparison of Phenotypic with Pedigree, Genomic and Single-Step Prediction across Years
2.5. Prediction Accuracy within and across Families
3. Results
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Year | Number of Lines † | ||
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Multi-Environment ‡ | Observation Trial (All) § | Observation Trial (Sel.) ¶ | |
2010 | 127 | ||
2011 | 162 | ||
2012 | 208 | 142 | 130 |
2013 | 193 | 306 | 170 |
2014 | 202 | 361 | 156 |
2015 | 206 | 676 | 151 |
2016 | 192 | 666 | 139 |
2017 | 209 | 875 | 83 |
2018 | 113 | 554 | 76 |
2019 | 114 |
h² † | Model | With Pre-Existing Information | Without Pre-Existing Information | ||||
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Population ‡ | Across § | Within ¶ | Population ‡ | Across § | Within ¶ | ||
0.1 (0.3) | OBS | 0.319 | 0.835 | 0.246 | |||
P-BLUP | 0.604 | 0.889 | 0.246 | 0.234 | 0.356 | 0.000 | |
SSG-BLUP | 0.605 | 0.892 | 0.246 | 0.268 | 0.410 | 0.000 | |
G-BLUP | 0.665 | 0.903 | 0.405 | 0.389 | 0.546 | 0.209 | |
PG-BLUP | 0.670 | 0.902 | 0.405 | 0.375 | 0.512 | 0.208 | |
0.3 (0.5) | OBS | 0.548 | 0.949 | 0.438 | |||
P-BLUP | 0.704 | 0.961 | 0.438 | 0.275 | 0.421 | 0.000 | |
SSG-BLUP | 0.705 | 0.962 | 0.438 | 0.299 | 0.459 | 0.000 | |
G-BLUP | 0.760 | 0.963 | 0.552 | 0.445 | 0.618 | 0.253 | |
PG-BLUP | 0.772 | 0.965 | 0.576 | 0.440 | 0.598 | 0.253 | |
0.5 (0.7) | OBS | 0.707 | 0.977 | 0.595 | |||
P-BLUP | 0.778 | 0.980 | 0.595 | 0.297 | 0.455 | 0.000 | |
SSG-BLUP | 0.779 | 0.981 | 0.595 | 0.321 | 0.491 | 0.000 | |
G-BLUP | 0.810 | 0.980 | 0.643 | 0.480 | 0.660 | 0.284 | |
PG-BLUP | 0.832 | 0.982 | 0.687 | 0.483 | 0.660 | 0.285 |
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Michel, S.; Löschenberger, F.; Sparry, E.; Ametz, C.; Bürstmayr, H. Multi-Year Dynamics of Single-Step Genomic Prediction in an Applied Wheat Breeding Program. Agronomy 2020, 10, 1591. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy10101591
Michel S, Löschenberger F, Sparry E, Ametz C, Bürstmayr H. Multi-Year Dynamics of Single-Step Genomic Prediction in an Applied Wheat Breeding Program. Agronomy. 2020; 10(10):1591. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy10101591
Chicago/Turabian StyleMichel, Sebastian, Franziska Löschenberger, Ellen Sparry, Christian Ametz, and Hermann Bürstmayr. 2020. "Multi-Year Dynamics of Single-Step Genomic Prediction in an Applied Wheat Breeding Program" Agronomy 10, no. 10: 1591. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy10101591