Prediction of parental dominance combinations for planned matings, methodology, and simulation results.

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Optimal use of dominance information requires a mating system and predictions of specific combining abilities for each set of prospective parents. Current evaluation procedures provide such predictions only for a limited number of parents. A procedure is described that predicts the specific combining ability for any parents. In this procedure, for each set of parents and their ancestors, the additive relationship...

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