RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Efficient Breeding by Genomic Mating
JF bioRxiv
FD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
SP 039214
DO 10.1101/039214
A1 Deniz Akdemir
A1 Julio Isidro Sánchez
YR 2016
UL http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/02/09/039214.abstract
AB Many breeders use selection as a first step for improvement of complex traits. The theory of selection is well studied in the genetics literature. In this article, we propose a new approach to breeding which focuses on mating instead of selection, we refer it to as genomic mating. We believe breeding by genomic mating uses the genomic information better than a recently proposed method of breeding methodologies like genomic selection. We used concepts of risk and diversification from the economics for formulating the optimum mating theory. The results from our simulations point to the efficiency of our method to selection based breeding.