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Using variable importance measures to identify a small set of SNPs to predict heading date in perennial ryegrass.
Scientific reports - 15 Jun 2017
Byrne Stephen L, Conaghan Patrick, Barth Susanne, Arojju Sai Krishna, Casler Michael, Michel Thibauld, Velmurugan Janaki, Milbourne Dan
Abstract excerpt
Prior knowledge on heading date enables the selection of parents of synthetic cultivars that are well matched with respect to time of heading, which is essential to ensure plants put together will cross pollinate. Heading date of individual plants can be determined via direct phenotyping, which has a time and labour cost. It can also be inferred from family means, although the spread in days to heading within...
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