Alphasim: Software for breeding program simulation

Plant Genome

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Faux, Anne Michelle ^a   Gorjanc, Gregor ^a   Gaynor, R Chris ^a   Battagin, Mara ^a   Edwards, Stefan M ^a   Wilson, David L ^a   Hearne, Sarah J ^b   Gonen, Serap ^a   Hickey, John M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b INTERNATIONAL MAIZE AND WHEAT IMPROVEMENT CENTER CIMMYT   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETICS; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; PLANT BREEDING; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOFTWARE;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, GENETIC; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; PLANT BREEDING; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84990963983     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19403372     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3835/plantgenome2016.02.0013     Document Type: Article

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