title: Predicting hybrid performance in rice using genomic best linear unbiased prediction.
abstract: Genomic selection is an upgrading form of marker-assisted selection for quantitative traits, and it differs from the traditional marker-assisted selection in that markers in the entire genome are used to predict genetic values and the QTL detection step is skipped. Genomic selection holds the promise to be more efficient than the traditional marker-assisted selection for traits controlled by polygenes. Genomic selection for pure breed improvement is based on marker information and thus leads to cost-saving due to early selection before phenotypes are measured. When applied to hybrid breeding, genomic selection is anticipated to be even more efficient because genotypes of hybrids are predetermined by their inbred parents. Hybrid breeding has been an important tool to increase crop productivity. Here we proposed and applied an advanced method to predict hybrid performance, in which a subset of all potential hybrids is used as a training sample to predict trait values of all potential hybrids. The method is called genomic best linear unbiased prediction. The technology applied to hybrids is called genomic hybrid breeding. We used 278 randomly selected hybrids derived from 210 recombinant inbred lines of rice as a training sample and predicted all 21,945 potential hybrids. The average yield of top 100 selection shows a 16% increase compared with the average yield of all potential hybrids. The new strategy of marker-guided prediction of hybrid yields serves as a proof of concept for a new technology that may potentially revolutionize hybrid breeding.
authors.affiliation: Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521; and.
authors.forename: Shizhong
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.affiliation: National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement and National Centre of Plant Gene Research (Wuhan), Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China.
authors.forename: Dan
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.affiliation: National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement and National Centre of Plant Gene Research (Wuhan), Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China qifazh@mail.hzau.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Qifa
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D001947:Breeding; D003198:Computer Simulation; D003433:Crosses, Genetic; D004843:Epistasis, Genetic; D018745:Genome, Plant; D006824:Hybridization, Genetic; D016013:Likelihood Functions; D016014:Linear Models; D008957:Models, Genetic; D012275:Oryza / Q000235:genetics*; D040641:Quantitative Trait Loci; D012641:Selection, Genetic
keywords: IMF2; hybrid rice; mixed model; restricted maximum likelihood; variance component analysis
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