Efficiency of multistage marker-assisted selection in the improvement of multiple quantitative traits

Heredity

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 489-498

  Xie, Chongqing ^a   Xu, Shizhong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cost function; Genetic gain; Marker assisted selection; Multistage selection; Selection index

Indexed keywords

PHENOTYPIC SELECTION; PLANT BREEDING; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT;

EID: 0032055012     PISSN: 0018067X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2540.1998.00308.x     Document Type: Article

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