Simulating the effects of dominance and epistasis on selection response in the CIMMYT wheat breeding program using QuCim.(Crop Breeding, Genetics & Cytology)

From: Crop Science | Date: November 1, 2004| Author: Cooper, Mark; DeLacy, Ian; Podlich, Dean; Trethowan, Richard; van Ginkel, Maarten; Wang, Jiankang; Ye, Guoyou | Copyright information

Plant breeders use many different breeding methods to develop superior cultivars. However, it is difficult, cumbersome, and expensive to evaluate the performance of a breeding method or to compare the efficiencies of different breeding methods within an ongoing breeding program. To facilitate comparisons, we developed a QU-GENE module called QuCim that can simulate a large number of breeding strategies for self-pollinated species. The wheat breeding strategy "Selected Bulk" used by CIMMYT's...

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