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BLUP in Plant Breeding Applications by Júnior Herênio is a document available to read on EtoBox.
This paper reviews the application of Best Linear Unbiased Prediction (BLUP) in plant breeding and variety testing, highlighting its advantages over traditional methods like BLUE. It discusses the use of pedigree information and mixed models to estimate genotypic values, emphasizing the predictive accuracy of BLUP in various breeding scenarios. Despite its potential, BLUP has not gained the same popularity in plant breeding as in animal breeding, largely due to differences in data availability and genetic v
- Author
- Júnior Herênio
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- EN