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Genetic Models for Predicting Maize Single-Cross Performance in Unbalanced Yield Trial Data

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Methods for predicting single-cross performance would facilitate maize (Zea mays L.) hybrid development. The objective of this study was to evaluate different genetic models for best linear unbiased prediction (BLUP) of single-cross performance in unbalanced yield data. Sixty-seven single crosses between nine Iowa Stiff Stalk Synthetic (SSS) and 16 non-SSS inbreds were evaluated separately in 31 different sets of multiplication yield trials from 1989 to 1993. Sets of p single crosses were chosen randomly as predictor hybrids. Yields of the remaining m = (67 — p) missing single crosses were predicted as Y_M = C_MP C^-_PP¹ y_p, where y_m = m x 1 vector of predicted yields; C_MP = m x p matrix of genetic covariances between the missing and predictor hybrids; CPP = p x p phenotypic covariance matrix among the predictor hybrids; and y_P = _p x 1 vector of average yields of the predictor hybrids, corrected for yield trial effects. Correlations between predicted and observed single-cross yields in the unbalanced data set ranged from 0.583 to 0.749. The correlations ranged from 0.388 to 0.493 when the missing and predictor hybrids had no parental inbreds in common, suggesting that BLUP may be useful for preliminary screening of single crosses between inbreds that have not been tested in any hybrid combination. Prediction of specific combining ability (SCA) was not effective because SCA variance was small. Genetic models that included additive x additive epistasis did not lead to better predictions of single-cross performance compared with the model that included only testcross additive and SCA effects. THE IDENTIFICATION of pairs of inbreds with superior.

Received for publication January 10, 1994.