CASSAVA BREEDING I: THE VALUE OF BREEDING VALUE

CASSAVA BREEDING I: THE VALUE OF BREEDING VALUE

Breeding cassava relies on several selection stages (single row trial-SRT; preliminary; advanced; and uniform yield trials - UYT). This study uses data from 14 years of evaluations. From more than 20,000 genotypes initially evaluated only 114 reached the last stage. The objective was to assess how t...

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Main Authors: Hernán Ceballos, Juan Carlos Perez, Orlando Joaqui Barandica, Jorge Iván Lenis, Nelson Morante, Fernando Calle, Lizbeth Pino, Clair H. Hershey
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Plant Science
Subjects:
Recurrent selection
Genetic gains
Additive genetic effects
partial inbreeding
within-family genetic variation
non-additive genetic effects.
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpls.2016.01227/full

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