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11. Selection and Development of Pure Lines

• Pure Line Selection: Basic Issues
  • Multistage Selection: Finney's Rule
• Controlling the Residual Variance
  • Replication
  • Field plot design
  • Accounting for G X E
• Choosing the Best Genotypes
  • Least significant difference (LSD) tests
  • Type I, II, and III Errors
  • Probability of choosing the best genotypes
  • Accuracy vs. intensity in selecting the best lines
• Advancement of Generations
  • Pedigree selection
  • Bulk selection
  • Is early generation selection effective?
  • Single seed descent (SSD) selection
  • Doubled haploid (DH) selection
  • Comparison of the different methods
• Sampling of Genotypes and Selection Limits
• Choice of Parents
  • Using phenotypic information
  • Using information for crosses: Diallels and DHs
  • Using information for crosses: The Jinks-Pooni method
  • Number of crosses vs. number of lines per cross
  • Outcrossing hybrids before selfing
• Recurrent Selection

PDF versions of a recent draft of this chapter are available. Feel free to use this for personal and/or class use until the book is available. Please note that these are copyrighted and that I would greatly appreciate feedback . Note that while the screen view can look funny in places, the printed output is fine.

• Chapter 11 PDF file ( v. 11 December 2000 ): (748K, 43 typeset pages)

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