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GrainGenes Reference Report: CRS-41-1470

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Reference	CRS-41-1470
Title	Predicting progeny means and variances of winter wheat crosses from phenotypic values of their parents
Journal	Crop Science
Year	2001
Volume	41
Pages	1470-1478
Author	Utz HF Bohn M Melchinger AE
Abstract	Summary: The efficiency of breeding programs could be increased by predicting the prospects of crosses for line development before producing and testing lines derived from them. In this study, we examined the performance of F(4:n) (n = 7 or 8) lines randomly derived from 30 winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) crosses produced by a factorial mating of five high yielding with six high baking quality cultivars. Our objectives were to (i) contrast the midparent value estimated m(ij) with estimated c(ij) for each cross and apply tests for the presence of epistasis, (ii) compare the estimates of the variance between means of crosses (sigma2c) with the average segregation variance within crosses (sigma2g), (iii) determine the variation in sigma2gij among crosses, (iv) evaluate the use of various parameters for predicting c(ij), sigma2gij, and U(ij), and (v) briefly describe quantitative-genetic theory for interpretation of our experimental findings. Twenty-two lines per cross and the respective parents were evaluated in four environments for seven agronomic and quality traits. Additionally, 44 F(2:4) lines per cross were tested in hills in two environments. On the basis of first-degree statistics, parental means were good predictors of cross means, yet significant epistatic effects were observed for most traits. In agreement with quantitative-genetic expectations, the genetic variance between sigma2c was of the same size as the variance between parental means and the average sigma2g of F(4:n) lines within crosses for all traits but sedimentation. Here, the two parental groups differed significantly in their mean, and sigma2g was significantly larger than sigma2c. Estimation of the segregation variance (sigma2gij) for individual crosses is not recommended because they (i) have a large standard error, (ii) can be assessed reliably only in advanced selfing generations, and (iii) are expected to have a minor influence on differences in the usefulness among crosses. Among all predictors investigated, only the parental means can be recommended for predicting the usefulness of crosses
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