Genomic prediction of resistance to tan spot, spot blotch and septoria nodorum blotch in synthetic hexaploid wheat

Genomic prediction combines molecular and phenotypic data in a training population to predict the breeding values of individuals that have only been genotyped. The use of genomic information in breeding programs helps to increase the frequency of favorable alleles in the populations of interest. This study evaluated the performance of BLUP (Best Linear Unbiased Prediction) in predicting resistance to tan spot, spot blotch and Septoria nodorum blotch in synthetic hexaploid wheat. BLUP was implemented in single-trait and multi-trait models with three variations: (1) the pedigree relationship matrix (A-BLUP), (2) the genomic relationship matrix (G-BLUP), and (3) a combination of the two matrices (A+G BLUP). In all three diseases, the A-BLUP model had a lower performance, and the G-BLUP and A+G BLUP were statistically similar (p ≥ 0.05). The prediction accuracy with the single trait was statistically similar (p ≥ 0.05) to the multi-trait accuracy, possibly due to the low correlation of severity between the diseases.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Garcia Barrios, G., Crossa, J., Cruz-Izquierdo, S., Aguilar Rincón, V.H., Sandoval-Islas, J.S., Corona-Torres, T., Lozano-Ramirez, N., Dreisigacker, S., Xinyao He, Singh, P.K., Pacheco Gil, R.A.
Format:	Article biblioteca
Language:	English
Published:	MDPI 2023
Subjects:	AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND BIOTECHNOLOGY, Wheat Diseases, Genomic Selection, Pedigree and Genomic Relationship Matrices, BREEDING, MARKER-ASSISTED SELECTION, PEDIGREES, WHEAT, DISEASES, Genetic Resources,
Online Access:	https://hdl.handle.net/10883/22661
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