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Estimating marker effects based on routinely generated phenotypic data of breeding programs is a cost-effective strategy to implement genomic selection. Truncation selection in breeding populations, however, could have a strong impact on the accuracy to predict genomic breeding values. The main objective of our study was to investigate the influence of phenotypic selection on the accuracy and bias of genomic selection. We used experimental data of 788 testcross progenies from an elite maize breeding program. The testcross progenies were evaluated in unreplicated field trials in ten environments and fingerprinted with 857 SNP markers. Random regression best linear unbiased prediction method was used in combination with fivefold cross-validation based on genotypic sampling. We observed a substantial loss in the accuracy to predict genomic breeding values in unidirectional selected populations. In contrast, estimating marker effects based on bidirectional selected populations led to only a marginal decrease in the prediction accuracy of genomic breeding values. We concluded that bidirectional selection is a valuable approach to efficiently implement genomic selection in applied plant breeding programs.
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This research was conducted within the Biometric and Bioinformatic Tools for Genomics based Plant Breeding project supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) within the framework of GABI–FUTURE initiative. Y. Zhao and M. Gowda were supported by BMBF within the HYWHEAT project (Grant ID: FKZ0315945D).
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Zhao, Y., Gowda, M., Longin, F.H. et al. Impact of selective genotyping in the training population on accuracy and bias of genomic selection. Theor Appl Genet 125, 707–713 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00122-012-1862-2
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