Claim · model-written summary
The sparse COMA mating design and flexible mating constraints offer practical incentives over OCS.
- Taxon
- potato
Solanum tuberosume2 - Outcome
- practical incentivese5
- Comparator
- OCSe5
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Verbatim
e2“In a potato breeding case study with 170 candidates, the optimal solution at 0.5% inbreeding involved 43 parents but only 43 of the 903 possible matings”
e5“The sparsity of the COMA mating design and flexibility to incorporate mating constraints offer practical incentives over OCS”
Title
Jeffrey B Endelman Genetics 2024. doi:10.1093/genetics/iyae193
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Method / resource COMA maintained a target inbreeding rate of 0.5% under simulation using pedigree or genomic IBD kinship.
- Method / resource Significantly more genetic gain was realized with pedigree kinship than with genomic IBD kinship.
- Method / resource OMA gave higher accuracy (+0.2-0.3) than OCS when predicting mate performance.
- Method / resource OMA gave little long-term gain advantage over OCS.
- Method / resource The optimal solution at 0.5% inbreeding involved 43 parents in the potato case study.
- Method / resource The optimal solution at 0.5% inbreeding involved only 43 of the 903 possible matings in the potato case study.