Golden rules for optimum breeding schemes

The R package selectiongain is a tool to optimize plant breeding schemes. Based on a fixed budget and costs for seed production, genomics, etc, which are defined by the user, it computes the maximum selection gain thereby optimizing the number of lines, replications, test locations and testers. In this film I show you important general results affecting optimum breeding schemes. Additionally, I show a comparison of a phenotypic with a genomic-assisted breeding scheme for hybrid wheat breeding.

Used sources:

Heiko Becker: Pflanzenzüchtung, Ulmer Verlag
Laidig et al. 2008: Plant breeding 127: 541-547
Longin et al. 2015: Theoretical Applied Genetics, 128: 1297-1306
Marulanda et al. 2016: Theoretical Applied Genetics, 129: 1901-1913