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THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS
Volume 135, Issue 6, Pages 1939-1950Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00122-022-04085-0
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- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation [OPP1215722]
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office
- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation [OPP1215722] Funding Source: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
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Sparse testing using genomic prediction can increase the number of testing environments in the early yield testing stage without increasing the budget. The overlap between lines and genetic relationships between environments are the main drivers of prediction accuracy in multi-environment yield trials. Genomic best linear unbiased prediction is the best predictor of true breeding value.
Key message Sparse testing using genomic prediction can be efficiently used to increase the number of testing environments while maintaining selection intensity in the early yield testing stage without increasing the breeding budget. Sparse testing using genomic prediction enables expanded use of selection environments in early-stage yield testing without increasing phenotyping cost. We evaluated different sparse testing strategies in the yield testing stage of a CIMMYT spring wheat breeding pipeline characterized by multiple populations each with small family sizes of 1-9 individuals. Our results indicated that a substantial overlap between lines across environments should be used to achieve optimal prediction accuracy. As sparse testing leverages information generated within and across environments, the genetic correlations between environments and genomic relationships of lines across environments were the main drivers of prediction accuracy in multi-environment yield trials. Including information from previous evaluation years did not consistently improve the prediction performance. Genomic best linear unbiased prediction was found to be the best predictor of true breeding value, and therefore, we propose that it should be used as a selection decision metric in the early yield testing stages. We also propose it as a proxy for assessing prediction performance to mirror breeder's advancement decisions in a breeding program so that it can be readily applied for advancement decisions by breeding programs.
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