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Genomic prediction of hybrid performance in grain sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L.)

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FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE
Volume 14, Issue -, Pages -

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FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2023.1139896

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genomic-estimated breeding value; ridge regression best linear unbiased prediction; single nucleotide polymorphism; training population; validation population

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This study assessed the efficacy of using genomic information of parental genotypes to predict the performance of grain sorghum hybrids. The results suggest that genomic prediction could be an effective tool for predicting the performance of sorghum hybrids based on parental genotypes.
Genomic selection is expected to improve selection efficiency and genetic gain in breeding programs. The objective of this study was to assess the efficacy of predicting the performance of grain sorghum hybrids using genomic information of parental genotypes. One hundred and two public sorghum inbred parents were genotyped using genotyping-by-sequencing. Ninty-nine of the inbreds were crossed to three tester female parents generating a total of 204 hybrids for evaluation at two environments. The hybrids were sorted in to three sets of 77,59 and 68 and evaluated along with two commercial checks using a randomized complete block design in three replications. The sequence analysis generated 66,265 SNP markers that were used to predict the performance of 204 F1 hybrids resulted from crosses between the parents. Both additive (partial model) and additive and dominance (full model) were constructed and tested using various training population (TP) sizes and cross-validation procedures. Increasing TP size from 41 to 163 increased prediction accuracies for all traits. With the partial model, the five-fold cross validated prediction accuracies ranged from 0.03 for thousand kernel weight (TKW) to 0.58 for grain yield (GY) while it ranged from 0.06 for TKW to 0.67 for GY with the full model. The results suggest that genomic prediction could become an effective tool for predicting the performance of sorghum hybrids based on parental genotypes.

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