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QUCIM, a software program that simulates inbred breeding programs is exemplified by the role of pleiotropy, dominance, epistasis and linkange on selection

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: Mexico, DF (Mexico) : CIMMYT, 2003.Description: 2 pagesISBN:
  • 970-648-106-0
Subject(s): In: Book of abstracts : Arnel R. Hallauer international symposium on plant breeding p. 252-253Summary: Modeling has always been of interest to plant breeders as a way of indirectly comparing effidendes of different breeding methods. QUCIM is a QU-GENE (Podlich and Cooper 1998) application module originally designed to model CIMMYT' s wheat breeding program (Wang et al. 2003) but which can model most breeding methods, including mass selection, pure-line breeding, pedigree selection, bulk- population selection, single-seed descent, back cross breeding, top cross breeding, doubled haploid breeding, marker-assisted selection, and any combination or modification of these methods.
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Modeling has always been of interest to plant breeders as a way of indirectly comparing effidendes of different breeding methods. QUCIM is a QU-GENE (Podlich and Cooper 1998) application module originally designed to model CIMMYT' s wheat breeding program (Wang et al. 2003) but which can model most breeding methods, including mass selection, pure-line breeding, pedigree selection, bulk- population selection, single-seed descent, back cross breeding, top cross breeding, doubled haploid breeding, marker-assisted selection, and any combination or modification of these methods.

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0311|AGRIS 0301|AL-Wheat Program

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